Season 1

A young woman is recruited into a secret government agency to be "stitched" into the minds of the recently deceased, using their memories to investigate murders. Season one consisted of 11 episodes. With a Halloween special that  aired as part of ABC Family's 13 Nights of Halloween on October 20th, 2015. However, this 11th episode precedes the events of Full Stop, the season 1 finale.Source

## Background:

The composer for the show is Kurt Farquhar. It's producer is: David Roessell, while the credited Executive producers are: Jeffrey Alan Schechter, Jonathan Baruch, Rob Wolken,Todd Holland, John Myrick and John Ziffren.(Source). The songs for each episode are selected by their Music Supervisor: Heather Guilbert. Jeffrey said that she has access to a library of great indie talent. Heather suggests 4 or 5 songs and then they decide on which ones go into the episode. But that's mostly handled by one of Jeffrey's producing partners, Rob Wolken.Taking writing out of the equation, their episode prep for 7 working days and then shoot for 7 working days. As a general rule, they shoot what's called *“5 in, 2 out”* which means 5 days in the studio and 2 days on location. The picking of titles tends to happen organically and just “come to them”. But sometimes they're a play on other titles like (Hack me if You Can or Pretty Little Lawyers). Overall, it's usually just something that makes sense or has deeper meaning.

So the writing process for the series is (usually) :

* The story is sent to the network(Freeform) for approval, which can take up to 2 days.
* The network reviews it and that last about a day.
* After the approved outline is written, it takes seven days.
* Then it's network approval once more which lasts 1 day.
* The script is written and that's 7 days followed by 2 days where its sent to the Network for approval.
* After that, it can go into the pre-production/prep/cycle, but they keep making tweaks to the script until its shot.

## Cast:

### Main Cast

* Emma Ishta as Kirsten Clark – 11/11
* Kyle Harris as Cameron Goodkin – 11/11
* Salli Richardson as Maggie Baptiste – 11/11
* Allison Scagliotti as Camille Engelson – 11/11
* Ritesh Rajan as Linus Ahluwalia – 11/11

### Supporting Cast

* Hugo Armstrong as Ed Clark 7/11
* Henry Rollins as Robert Barbiero 7/11
* Damon Dayoub as Quincy Fisher -8/11
* Sola Bamis as Ayo-10/11
* Cameron Britton as Tim-9/11
* Ross Kurt Le  as Alex-10/11
* Kaylee Quinn as Young Kirsten-7/11
* Tiffany Hines  as Marta Rodriguez-4/11
* Oded Fehr  as Leslie Turner - 4/11
* Jack Turner  as Liam Granger -3/11

### Guest Cast:

* Mia Serafino  as Janice- 2/11
* Cameron Daddo  as  Joe Parks-2/11
* Anna Khaja as Getti Ahluwalia-2/11
* Courtney Henggeler  as Suzanne Parks- 1/11
* Donnell Turner as Jerome Hardwyck- 1/11
* J'aime Spezzano as Julie Malarek- 1/11
* Simon Quarterman  as Dr. Sebastian Zuber - 1/11
* Courtney Henggeler  as Suzanne Parks- 1/11
* Hank Ostendorf as Fred Castellano-1/11
* Hina Abdullah as Lilly Ross - 1/11
* Michael Grant Terry as Scott Ross-1/11
* Chaley Rose  as  Sadie Morton-1/11

## Reception:

Stitchers has received mixed reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the first season holds a rating of 29%, based on 14 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads, "Confusing and tonally inconsistent, Stitchers is neither campy enough to be fun nor intelligent enough to be compelling."Source On Metacritic, the first season has a score of 48 out of 100, based on 9 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".Source Despite this on July 15th, 2015 ABC Family renewed Stitchers for a second season.  On July 7th, 2015, was the first time the show aired without Pretty Little Liars as it  its lead in  and retained 90% of its audience. The networked also cited great DVR numbers and  hitting a different age group other then their standars  as reasons for renewal. No official word yet on how many episodes season 2 will have or which cast members will be back for it.Source

## Spoilers and Notes:

* There  was a Halloween episode this season but was a standalone, bonus episode of  Season 1 that took place place some time before the events of  the season 1 finale: Full Stop  and  aired as part of ABC Family's Annual 13 Nights of Halloween .Source
* Said Halloween Special aired on Tuesday, October 20th, 2015 at 9pm|8c.

## Broadcast:

* Internationally, the series premiered in Australia on FOX8 on October 14, 2015.(Source)

## Gallery:

* *Season 1 Poster*
* *Playbill of 13 Nights of Halloween programming*
* *Title Card for Halloween Special*
* Halloween Promo Pic
* #Stitch or #Treat
* Season 1 Table Read
* Final Day BTS of Season 1
* BTS S1 Storyboard of the episode Fire in the Hole
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## Sneak Peeks:

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