COCKED: Sam Trammell on Brotherly Drama, Playing with Fire, and Amazon’s Pilot Process

Amazon’s latest pilot season is nearing its end, and a handful of new original (potential) shows are competing for your attention.

One of the ones I was drawn to is COCKED, a drama that centers around the Paxon family, and their gun business. (It stars Sam Trammell, Jason Lee, Dreama Walker, and Brian Dennehy, and was co-created by LIE TO ME’s Samuel Baum and MANHATTAN’s Sam Shaw.)

I spoke with Trammell — who plays Richard, the Paxon who is reluctantly dragged back into the family business — about the Amazon pilot process, filming one of the pilot’s crazy stunts, where the show might go, and more …