New Lady had so many nice visitor stars over its seven season run, but when there’s one actor that I want might have been in additional episodes, it’s Alan Ritchson. He visitor stars within the season 4 episode “Micro” as Matt, an artist that Jess begins relationship. As soon as she discovers that he has a micropenis, she makes a wager with the blokes to proceed relationship him and show that she’s not shallow. Nonetheless, his endowment turns into the least of her issues as soon as Jess will get to know Matt and discovers that he has a horrible character. Between his tattoo that claims “warrior poet,” his unusual abbreviation of phrases, and the truth that he already has a girlfriend, Matt isn’t an important man! However Ritchson’s comedic timing is so spot on, that I really want we might have seen extra of him.
Younger Norm Scully – Brooklyn 9-9
Ritchson additionally made a short look within the sitcom Brooklyn 9-9 as a younger, scorching, succesful model of Detective Norm Scully, who may be very well-known within the current day for being the stark reverse of scorching and succesful. Throughout flashbacks within the season six episode “Hitchcock & Scully,” Ritchson’s Scully is seen taking down a mob boss alongside a youthful, hotter Hitchcock. We additionally get to see how Wing Slutz grew to become Hitchcock and Scully’s downfall. Whereas this younger, action-hero model of Scully is extra in-line with Ritchson’s current roles, it’s nonetheless sudden to see him play the youthful model of a personality we’ve seen primarily as comedic reduction for six seasons. Truthfully, between this and his look on New Lady, Ritchson deserves to be on extra sitcoms.
Arthur Bailey – Blood Drive
For those who watched the Syfy channel in any respect in 2017, you would possibly bear in mind seeing trailers for the Grindhouse sequence Blood Drive, or you might have even been courageous sufficient to observe it. I had personally blocked all reminiscence of this present from existence till just lately, however there’s no approach I’m making an inventory of Alan Ritchson’s weirdest roles with out it.
Blood Drive is a post-apocalyptic present set in an alternate 1999 the place “The Nice Fracking Quakes” and a worldwide fuel scarcity have led humanity to develop automobiles that run on the subsequent neatest thing – human blood. Sure, you learn that accurately. On this present, Ritchson performs Arthur Bailey, an LA cop who finds himself compelled to take part in a gory demise race alongside Femme Fatale Grace D’Argento. This demise race is stuffed with cannibals, blood thirsty criminals, and a lot blood. This present is definitely not for the faint of coronary heart, and proves to be an intriguing entry in Ritchson’s filmography.
