The Apple TV+ restricted sequence Presumed Harmless didn’t have a blueprint for a second season, however after discovering a lot success, the authorized thriller is branching out to inform one other story in Season 2.
Season 1 was based mostly on Scott Turow’s bestselling novel of the identical identify, however there was no apparent path to proceed the sequence from Turow’s physique of labor.
Season 2 of the present, govt produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams and Season 1 star Jake Gyllenhaal and co-exec produced by Turow, is taking a very completely different path with a feminine lead, Leila Reynolds, succeeding Gyllenhaal’s Rusty Sabich.
Apple TV+ and producing studio Warner Bros. TV have acquired the rights to Dissection of a Homicide, the upcoming debut authorized thriller by Jo Murray.
The e book, set for a spring 2026 publication by Pam Macmillan, “follows Leila Reynolds who has simply been handed her first homicide case. She’s method out of her depth however the defendant solely needs her – and to make issues worse, her husband is the prosecutor. Quickly Leila is preventing to maintain her personal secrets and techniques buried too.”
Issues are nonetheless in flux, however Dissection of a Homicide is anticipated to function inspiration for the second season of what’s shaping as much as be a real anthology sequence. There had been an thought for a personality or two from Season 1 to hold over for continuity within the vein of HBO’s The White Lotus; it’s unclear whether or not that’s nonetheless a chance.
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