Bloodline, the latest scripted drama to take a big bow on Netflix, comes with an immaculate pedigree. A family saga-cum-thriller with an inventively complex and serpentine narrative, the show brings feature film actors Kyle Chandler, Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Ben Mendelsohn, Linda Cardellini and Norbert Leo Butz to the Florida Keys in a 13-episode first season that premiered on March 20. Creators Glenn and Todd A. Kessler and Daniel Zelman, the team behind Damages and its successful five-year run, told reporters at Bloodline‘s recent press day in New York they wanted to put a different spin a contemporary family drama. Less whodunit than whydunit, the initial episode spills its violent denouement in a series of flash-forwards that reward the serial viewer. “It was important to us to let an audience know that’s where they were heading within the first hour so that they could watch events unfold,” said Glenn Kessler, who together with his brother Todd, has known co-creator Daniel Zelman for the past 25 years. “It’s really about things we’ve been discussing our entire lives.” Like Damages, the show is produced by Sony Pictures Television and the trio’s KZK Productions. […]