North East Regional Extra, Wednesday, August 27, 2025 - Page 1
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HOUGH it wasn’t intended as such, it’s a good idea to consider this twisted suburban drama as a limited series, given that US TV network NBC has already nipped it in the bud. The premise surrounds four members of a Detroit garden club whose lives are entangled by scandal. High school teacher Alice (AnnaSophia Robb, Little Fires Everywhere), her bestie Brett (Ben Rappaport, Outsourced), real estate agent Catherine (Aja Naomi King, Lessons in Chemistry) and socialite Birdie (Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Melissa Fumero) are all desperately trying to present a composed outer picture to their affluent
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neighbours, but the thorns of their messy personal lives are proving impossible to hide. “The pilot was one of the best scripts I’ve ever read,” Fumero told NBC Insider. “I thought all of these characters were so complex and intriguing, but particularly for Birdie, getting to see behind the mask, and behind the curtain and behind what she wants people to see, was really attractive to me and intriguing, because that’s what makes her feel like a real person. “I’ve been playing kind of put-together characters lately, so it’s fun to play someone who doesn’t always know what she’s doing and is a bit of a
mess and just living life one moment to the next.” Ripe with botanical language, the saucy saga takes a leaf out of Desperate Housewives’ book, as the green thumbs take turns to narrate their various schemes and scandals. Tuesday’s premiere sows the seeds of a murder cover-up, with the foursome burying a body in the community garden, but who killed whom, and why? That’s a mystery that will take 13 episodes to bloom.
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