Three new series and a movie based on a novel... here's a close-up of highlights on Apple TV+ this month:
Suspicion
Premiere date: Friday 4 February 2022
Roll-out: Premiered with the first two episodes, followed by one new episode weekly.
A high-paced thriller starring Uma Thurman as a prominent American media mogul whose son gets kidnapped.
21-year-old Leo’s abduction from a large, upmarket hotel in central New York is captured on video and goes viral.
Five British citizens staying at the hotel become the prime suspects and are plunged into a desperate race against time to prove their innocence.
Are they guilty of any more than being in the wrong place at the wrong time?
The show is based on the Israeli series False Flag.
Other cast includes Kunal Nayyar, Noah Emmerich, Georgina Campbell, Elyes Gabel, Elizabeth Henstridge and Angel Coulby.
The Sky Is Everywhere
Premiere date: Friday 11 February 2022
A new Apple Original Film directed by filmmaker Josephine Decker (Shirley), The Sky is Everywhere stars Emmy Award-winner Cherry Jones and Jason Segel, and is based on the best-selling YA Novel of the same name by Jandy Nelson.
Tucked among the magical redwood trees of Northern California and surrounded by her grandmother’s gargantuan roses, 17-year-old Lennie Walker, a radiant musical prodigy, struggles with overwhelming grief following the sudden loss of her older sister, Bailey.
When Joe Fontaine, the charismatic new guy at school, enters Lennie’s life, she’s drawn to him. But Lennie’s complicated relationship with her sister’s devastated boyfriend, Toby, starts to affect Lennie and Joe’s budding love.
Through her vivid imagination and honest, conflicted heart, Lennie navigates first love and first loss to create a song of her own.
Severance
Premiere date: Friday 18 February 2022
Roll-out: Premieres with the first two episodes, followed by one new episode weekly.
A dystopian thriller starring Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation) as Mark Scout who leads a team at Lumon Industries, whose employees have undergone a severance procedure, which surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives.
This experiment in ‘work-life balance’ is called into question as Mark finds himself at the centre of an unraveling mystery that will force him to confront the true nature of his work.
Adam Scott produces alongside Patricia Arquette who plays his boss Peggy. Executive Producers include Ben Stiller who also co-directs with Irish filmmaker Aoife McArdle.
Other series stars include Christopher Walken and John Turturro.
Lincoln’s Dilemma
Premiere date: Friday 18 February 2022
Roll-out: All four episodes load on the premiere date
A four-part documentary series about President Lincoln and his complex journey to end slavery.
Narrated by Jeffery Wright and featuring the voices of Bill Camp as Abraham Lincoln and Leslie Odom, Jr. as Frederick Douglass, the series is a 21st century examination of a complicated man and the people and events that shaped his evolving stance on slavery.