Magazine Article: Series Writer and Russian-Immigrant Grandparents

magazine article: Series writer and creator Michael Amo The Listener optioned one such magazine article nearly a decade ago but had a hard time selling networks on a Christian sect version of Breaking Bad, according to Brandon Sun. I couldn't get any traction on it, says Amo, whose Russian-immigrant grandparents were Mennonites. Various reports suggest some members were smuggling cocaine and marijuana into Canada all the way from Mexico by hiding drugs in hollowed-out car batteries and wheels of cheese. I found there was a lot of resistance to the notion that this was even real. Around the same time, so did the success of True Detective and Fargo, two dark dramas that proved there was an appetite for short-run series. Well-publicized busts involving drug mules in Calgary and southwestern Ontario helped open a few eyes, says Amo. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.