Jessica Biel is getting ready to return to the small screen for her first role in two years with the Peacock limited series The Good Daughter.
The 42-year-old actress is slated to star in and produce the project for the streaming service, which was announced through a Peacock press release.
Author Karin Slaughter – who wrote the 2017 novel the series is based on – has been set to write every episode of the show and executive produce.
The role will be Biel’s first since playing Candy Montgomery in the 2022 Hulu limited series Candy, coming after it was revealed she had a crush on 7th Heaven co-star Barry Watson.
The series is described as, ‘a suspenseful crime drama,’ that follows sisters Charlotte (Jessica Biel) and Samantha Quinn.
Jessica Biel is getting ready to return to the small screen for her first role in two years with the Peacock limited series The Good Daughter.
Author Karin Slaughter – who wrote the 2017 novel the series is based on – has been set to write every episode of the show and executive produce
The sisters, ‘have spent the last twenty-eight years trying to piece together the lives that were fractured by a single night of violence.’
Charlotte has grown up to become a lawyer, like her father before her, though now, ‘she’s forced to confront her own demons as the case twists through one shocking revelation after another.’
‘In the end, both she and Samantha find themselves wondering if the price of being the good daughter was worth it after all,’ the description concludes.
Slaughter – who also wrote the books that the ABC series Will Trent is based on – also wrote a prequel novella to The Good Daughter called Last Breath.
The series also reunites Slaughter with producer Bruna Papandrea, who produced the 2022 Netflix series Pieces of Her, based on Slaughter’s 2018 novel.
The production company Fifth Season will also produce and distribute the limited series in international territories.
Slaughter – who also wrote the books that the ABC series Will Trent is based on – also wrote a prequel novella to The Good Daughter called Last Breath.
The series also reunites Slaughter with producer Bruna Papandrea, who produced the 2022 Netflix series Pieces of Her, based on Slaughter’s 2018 novel
Biel was not present at a reunion for her hit series 7th Heaven in Connecticut last weekend, though some interesting revelations were made.
Papandrea will produce through her Made Up Stories banner, alongside Steve Hutensky and Casey Haver.
Biel was not present at a reunion for her hit series 7th Heaven in Connecticut last weekend, though some interesting revelations were made.
Barry Watson, Beverley Mitchell, David Gallagher, Catherine Hicks and Mackenzie Rosman were all at the event, where Hicks said both Biel and Mitchell had crushes on Watson.
‘Jessie and Beverley had such a crush on him. They were, like, so in love with him. [Beverley] was 15 and Jessie was 14,’ she said, with Watson then in his 20s.
