New Amsterdam
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Created by Allan Loeb ("Things We Lost in the Fire," "21") and Christian Taylor ("Showboy," "Six Feet Under"), NEW
AMSTERDAM is the story of a New York homicide detective unlike any other. He is brilliant, mysterious, reckless, magnetic, unknowable. And he has a profound
secret - he is immortal. Pilot directed by visionary Lasse Hallström ("My Life As a Dog," "The Cider House Rules," "Chocolat,"
"The Hoax").
In 1642, JOHN AMSTERDAM (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, "Kingdom of Heaven"), then a Dutch solider in the colony of New Amsterdam -
later to become New York City - stepped in front of a sword to save the life of a Native American girl during a massacre of her indigenous tribe. The girl in
turn rescued Amsterdam, weaving an ancient spell that conferred immortality upon him. Amsterdam will not age, she told him, until he finds his one true love.
Only then will he become whole and ready for mortality.
According to IMBD, this is starting March 10. I missed the pilot, but I remember the trailers last summer, and it looked pretty good.
