Jocko Sims knows how we’re feeling when we’re watching Grosse Pointe Garden Society. He gets it. In fact, the people around him get it. They’re saying the same thing to him.
“Let me tell you something. You don’t know how wild it is. It gets crazier,” he told us as he sat down with Fangirlish to discuss the show. “I don’t know how wild it’s going to get. It’s going to get wild. And what’s crazy is it’s rare that I’m on a show that I can’t wait until the day it comes on.”
But that’s not all, Sims shared he isn’t the only one. “A lot of people I’m talking to, they’re saying the same thing. It was like, God, why couldn’t they just, like, release them all at once on Peacock or something? But people are tuning in every week.”
And for Sims, that’s what drew him to the show and his character, Tucker. “That reaction when Catherine confesses to him. Cause I’m like, oh, that’s weird. And it just sort of opened up the doors for anything to be going on with him. I mean, is he going to lose his shit? Is he having an affair? There’s a number of things that could be going on.”
If that’s interesting from the perspective of the viewers, it’s also interesting for the actor. “What’s the word we would use? You know how they say everybody’s a suspect? I guess in this case, we’d say everybody’s a potential victim, we would say, right? Because we don’t know who’s buried. So, all of that stuff fascinated me.”
This is also very different from Sims’s previous character on New Amsterdam. “That’s precisely part of the reason I wanted to do it is because this was something I hadn’t done before. This is murder. This is a mystery. This is sexy. This is a little bit of comedy all sprinkled in there. It’s fun and funny.”
“But definitely, you know, especially playing Dr. Reynolds, who was very by the book when it came to the things that he did, you know, he was a Yale graduate, he was focused on family and all that. And then to be playing Tucker, which, he still is a family guy, and also married to his work. But he makes some mistakes here and there in not giving Catherine the attention she needs.”
It feels, however, that there might be something more sinister going on with Tucker. “Like, that reaction was hella weird. You know, who reacts like that? He said, okay, and thank you. And when I read that, that’s what I was like, I’m in. That is a little unhinged.”
That’s the show for you. And that’s why we all have our little white boards, with our little lists of possible victims, and our little list of clues, something Sims joked with us he very much not only supported, but that his mom and her friends were also doing. And we’re feeling pretty confident in our guesses.
Grosse Pointe Garden Society airs Sundays on NBC.
