Netflix has debuted a set of first-look images from their upcoming Harlan Coben series featuring Michelle Keegan, ‘Fool Me Once.’
The eight-episode series follows Maya Stern (Michelle Keegan) who is trying to come to terms with the brutal murder of her husband, Joe (Richard Armitage). But when Maya installs a nanny cam to watch her young daughter, she is shocked to see a man she recognises in her house. Her husband, who she thought was dead…
Detective Sergeant Sami Kierce (Adeel Akhtar) leads the homicide investigation into Joe’s death while grappling with secrets of his own. Meanwhile, Maya’s niece and nephew, Abby and Daniel, are trying to find the truth about their mother’s murder, several months earlier. Are the two cases connected? Fool Me Once follows these characters on a thrilling hunt for the truth that will reveal shocking secrets and change their lives forever. Joanna Lumley is Judith Burkett, Joe’s protective mother.
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Lead by Keegan, the cast also includes Adeel Akhtar, Richard Armitage, Joanna Lumley, Emmett J. Scanlan, Dino Fetscher, Marcus Garvey, Hattie Morahan, James Northcote, Danya Griver, Daniel Burt, Adelle Leonce, Natalia Kostrzewa, Clara Indrani.
Directors for the series are David Moore (Outlander, The Last Kingdom) (lead director, blocks 1 and 3) and Nimer Rashed (block 2). Danny Brocklehurst (Brassic, Come Home) serves as lead writer with Charlotte Coben, Yemi Oyefuwa, Nina Metivier and Tom Farrelly.
Fool Me Once will relocate the story from the US to the UK in keeping with previous Harlan Coben adaptations.
Filming has now started in Manchester and the Northwest of England.
