Herc Says NBC’s New Charles Manson Drama Won’t Generate Much Of A Cult!! Read the full article on AICN I am – Hercules!! A miniseries about a Los Angeles cop who finds himself following the activities of Charles Manson two years before Manson achieved peak infamy, “Aquarius” comes to us from John McNamera, who also created ABC’s excellent but short-lived high-end private-detective hourlong “Eyes.” “X-Files” vet David Duchovny plays the LAPD detective lured by an ex-girlfriend into looking into this Manson character, who has begun hanging out with the ex-girlfriend’s pretty 16-year-old daughter. Duchovny’s character has a few slightly interesting things going on in his life outside of his pursuit of Manson.