MacGyver‘s Levy Tran Promoted to Series Regular for Season 4
Desi will continue to have MacGyver‘s six as the CBS drama heads into its fourth season.
Levy Tran, who joined MacGyver in mid-February as Desiree “Desi” Nguyen, has been promoted from recurring to series regular for Season 4, TVLine has confirmed. The official news comes four weeks after MacGyver was renewed for the 2019-20 TV season (with 12 Monkeys‘ Terry Matalis coming in as co-showrunner alongside Peter M. Lenkov).
Tran made her debut in the episode “K9 + Smugglers + New Recruit,” in which Mac’s team was tasked with escorting and protecting an gun-sniffing ATF canine who had a bounty on his furry little head. Desi had been hand-picked by her predecessor, Jack Dalton (former cast member George Eads), after Mac’s BFF slipped away on a personal mission. (Watch her very first scene below.)
One of the first women to graduate from U.S. Army Ranger School, Desi was previously a member of a special ops team consisting of forces from the SAS, Delta Force and the CIA.
Tran’s previous TV credits included The Haunting of Hill House (as Theo’s girlfriend) and Shameless.
Just be prepared for this show to be cancelled. It’s in the cards.
It’s in the cards for all shows…
Wow, you’re a psychic? How about some lotto numbers–I mean, obviously you “know” things and even read “cards”. I just gave myself a brain scan with the massive eye roll I just did…
It will be cancelled after five seasons and 100 episodes. Season 4 will have 22 episodes and the “wrap things up” season 5 will have 13. It’s become a common practice.
Unless it’s rubbish reality TV and then it’ll go on forever.
not unexpected, an di’m glad about it, too. i like desi, and what she brings to the show.
my only problem is that they immediately started going down the mac/desi road and that needs to stop asap. it’s so predictable, they tried to do it with mac/sam as well, before the character abruptly left the show. it’s so cliché, and i hope the season premiere will deal with this right away and lets them decide to just be friends.
Agreed. Just keep them as friends.
Also agreed. Why can’t they just be friends w/o anything romantic between them?
I agree they went too fast with the Macintosh SE thing
That should say mac and Desi thing
Great news. I like Desi way more than Jack.
Jack is much better
I knew they would but I was hoping they wouldn’t ;-)
I was kind of hoping that we’d switch to something closer in tone to real MacGyver, with less violence and more MacGyver-isms. By all means have Desi recur, along with Bridget Regan or Leanna or whoever else might be needed depending on the situation, but I actually liked the dynamic of just Mac and Riley in the field together for the few eps they did it.
I agree! I really like the chemistry between Mac and Riley. It feels authentic. The whole Mac/Desi relationship feels forced. I like them better as friends only.
The original series was focused around a single (white male) character. This series is focused on an ensemble team. The old series had plenty of episodes with just Mac by himself which meant solutions had to be non-violent.
What the hell does his skin colour or gender have to do with it? Racist!
I wouldn’t worry, no doubt the show will follow the standard feminist bait and switch path where MAc will become less smart over the course of the show and a new female genius nemesis or coworker will appear to show him up and defeat him in the same manner as Sherlock with his sister or Elementary with Moriarty being a woman (ridiculous) or Psych where Lassie’s girlfriend turned into a Sherlock Holmes genius and beat him at every turn in the final episodes.
Just as promised.
I really like the Desi character.
Wonderful! I hope MacGyver will continue for at least 100 episodes for syndication purposes.
While I don’t love Desi, I do like her and she seems fine. My issue is that she just doesn’t seem like the person Jack would pick to watch Mac’s back. For the record and to clarify: this has nothing to do with her being a woman.
In my opinion, Jack would have picked someone, maybe from his old unit, that’s retired, but doing odd security detail jobs, etc or somebody similar.
I thought the show was better with Jack, I liked the pairs sense of humor unlike the forced relationship road they are going down with Desi. Plus, I can’t get past the hideous wall of tacky tattoos. I like the show overall, Murdoch was an awesome selection of actor.
Jack who? Love her character and the actress. This show has a great casting department from David Dastmalchian to Tate Donovan and the many guest stars. They are really on it.
Not really surprised, in fact it’s to be expected. She’s a replacement for a regular character.
News by definition isn’t necessarily surprising. Oftentimes it is just news.
So long Jack!
I also hope that jack will be a guest star in a few episodes.
Why? Yawn. Such a bore and not a good actresss. They needed to bring in someone to replace George Eads, someone middle aged and edgy.
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Good, she’s soooooo damn hot!!!! It takes a gorgeous woman to take my eyes of Riley!