After a smash of a turn in May December, Natalie Portman is back with yet another suspenseful story and role in Apple TV series Lady in the Lake.
Based on Laura Lippman's 2019 novel of the same name, which drew from true real-life unsolved murders that took place in Baltimore, the TV show's location.
Here's everything we know about the upcoming TV show.
Major stars are rumoured to be in talks for a second instalment.
Lady in the Lake plot
“When the disappearance of a young girl grips the city of Baltimore on Thanksgiving 1966, the lives of two women converge on a fatal collision course," the TV show's plot synopsis reads.
"Maddie Schwartz [Natalie Portman] is a Jewish housewife seeking to shed a secret past and reinvent herself as an investigative journalist, and Cleo Sherwood is a mother navigating the political underbelly of Black Baltimore while struggling to provide for her family.
"Their disparate lives seem parallel at first, but when Maddie becomes fixated on Cleo’s mystifying death, a chasm opens that puts everyone around them in danger.”
Maddie is inspired to look into the connection between Cleo's death and the murder of a young Jewish girl – all very, very mysterious. We also see in the trailer (see below) that Maddie grapples with her identity as a wife, wanting more from herself and pushing for her passion for investigations, despite the patriarchal norms of the 1960s. We love to see it.
Lady in the Lake cast
Natalie Portman will be joined by Moses Ingram (The Queen's Gambit), who will play Cleo, along with Stranger Things star Brett Gelman, Y'lan Noel (Insecure), Byron Bowers, Selema Masekela, Noah Jupe, Josiah Cross, Mikey Madison and Pruitt Taylor Vince (Bird Box)
Lady in the Lake release date
It will be available to watch on Apple TV+ from 19 July. The first two episodes will drop on that date, with one episode dropping each Friday after that until late August.
Lady in the Lake trailer
We're getting slight Big Little Lies vibes, with a touch of Mother's Instinct.