http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/09/arts/television/review-quarry-cinemax-max-allan-collins.html 2016-09-09 01:09:21 Review: ‘Quarry’ Puts Death to Great Music. Very Slowly. This eight-episode thriller coming to Cinemax sets a grim Vietnam-era tale in a soulful Memphis. === With Quarry is the nickname of the show’s antihero, a just-returned Vietnam vet named Mac Conway (Logan Marshall-Green of “Prometheus”) who was implicated in a My Lai-like massacre. Spit on by protesters at the Memphis airport, rejected by his father and unable to find a job, he reluctantly (and implausibly) finds himself working as a hit man for a mysterious boss called the Broker (Peter Mullan). Paid to be a killer in Vietnam, he’s now fit only for paid killing, a bit of tragic symbolism that was more potent when it showed up in “Who’ll Stop the Rain” (based on Robert Stone’s “Dog Soldiers”) back in 1978. The series was created and largely written by Michael D. Fuller and Graham Gordy, based on a series of novels by Max Allan Collins. Mr. Fuller and Mr. Gordy were writers on Mr. Marshall-Green works hard as Conway, but there’s not much to the character besides hurt feelings and a kind of mopey nobility. It’s indicative of the character — and of the style of the writing — that he’s given his nickname during a meeting at an abandoned quarry because he’s “hollowed out on the inside, hard as rock, kind of like this place.” More fun to watch is his fey partner in crime, Buddy, played by Damon Herriman, who was memorable as the addled “Quarry” joins SundanceTV’s Elmore Leonard adaptation