Grosse Pointe Garden Society is filling our craving for murder, mystery, a star-studded cast — all set against a flowery backdrop.
In the official trailer, which Us Weekly can exclusively debut, the upcoming NBC introduces an unlikely friend group that has to cover up the fact that they killed someone.
“I can’t believe we are burying a body,” Melissa Fumero‘s character, Birdie, says before another scene shows her confession to Officer Joel (Matthew Davis), “My friends and I sort of murdered someone.”
The show features a voiceover from AnnaSophia Robb‘s Alice, who sets the scene for the crime. “People are like the flowers they plant. Some flowers are wild and without boundaries,” she notes. “We all may look perfect on the surface.”
Grosse Pointe Garden Society, however, is determined to pull back the curtain on everyone’s secrets. While Alice reveals that one of her students “threatened” her, Birdie wonders if the people in her life “hate” her. Aja Naomi King‘s character, Catherine, admits her life is a “mess” because she’s “cheating” on her husband. As for Ben Rappaport‘s Brett? He questions why his ex left him for another man.
“People always think they can get away with it,” Birdie says. “Maybe they shouldn’t.”
According to the synopsis, Grosse Pointe Garden Society follows four members of a suburban garden club “who find their lives intertwined by scandal, mischief and a shared secret — a murder no one wants to talk about.” As the dark truths “begin to rot their lives under the surface, they struggle to remain as perfect as the flowers blooming in their garden above.”
The first look at the show doesn’t reveal who gets killed but it becomes obvious that their identity won’t stay hidden for long. The friend group appears to be primarily at odds with newcomer Birdie.
“I don’t think she gets the first rule of garden club,” Brett suggests after Birdie runs to the police station while Alice adds, “She would 100 percent turn us in.”
Birdie, for her part, appears determined to help the group bury their secrets. “Every garden has unwanted guests,” she teases. “And when that happens, there’s only one thing left to do. Burn it all down.”
In addition to Fumero, King, Rappaport and Robb, Grosse Pointe Garden Society stars Alexander Hodge, Nancy Travis, Matthew Davis and Felix Wolfe. Before the show’s premiere, Fumero spoke to Us about finding herself drawn to spookier projects.
“They just happen to come up for me,” she shared after her darker arc on Peacock’s Based on a True Story. “So something about me screams mystery. But I’ll take it. It’s a genre that I enjoy and I’m not complaining.”
Fumero isn’t the only one commanding the murder genre. King rose to stardom for her lead role in ABC’s How to Get Away With Murder.
Grosse Pointe Garden Society premieres on NBC Sunday, February 23, at 10 p.m. ET and new episodes are available to stream on Peacock the next day.
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