LOST Penny Joins COMMON LAW

It feels like it’s been awhile, but the woman everyone knows as Penny from Lost is coming back to television for USA’s Common Law. Sonya Walger is joining the buddy cop drama in a starring role as a therapist. This is her first series regular position since she starred on the short-lived science fiction series FlashForward in 2009.

Flashing forward (yeah I went there) to the present, we’ll see Walger working with both Warren Kole and Michael Ealy playing two homicide detectives who are sent to couples therapy after constant bickering between them becomes unbearable.

EW reports Walger’s character is named Dr. Emma Ryan. An extremely bright person, Emma graduated top of her class to start her own practice in Beverly Hills. Being a good-natured person, she couldn’t stand being a “pill dispenser” to her rich clients and began offering low-cost Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and group couples’ therapy. On top of all those positive qualities, she’s also extremely good looking and no stranger to humor.

Putting aside the mythology heavy Lost and FlashForward, Walger has done work in such shows as In Treament and Tell Me You Love Me, which have much more in common with Common Laws as they both featured therapy. I’ve always enjoyed Walger as an actress regardless of what she’s in, though I have been more exposed to her science fiction roles. That being said, her playing something more toned down and on the level, like the Emma character seems to be, is just the way I like her.