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Dennis Quaid isn’t any stranger to suspense and horror. The actor, 70, has appeared in a lot of suspenseful choices through the years, together with The Substance reverse Demi Moore, Beneath the Darkness (2011,) The Intruder (2019,) Jaws 3-D (1983,) and Pandorum (2009,) amongst others. In 1978, he starred alongside Gwyneth Paltrow‘s mother Blythe Danner in a little-known TV horror/suspense film referred to as Are You within the Home Alone?
Now, the actor returns to TV with a real crime collection based mostly on a buzzy podcast of the identical identify. Under, discover out what the collection is about, the place to look at, and extra.
What’s ‘Glad Face’ About?
When Does the ‘Glad Face’ Collection Debut?
To not be confused with the 2014 Lifetime film The Glad Face Killer starring David Arquette, Glad Face is impressed by the heartbreaking story of Melissa G. Moore, who found at simply 15 years outdated that her father was serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson. The eight-episode collection delves into the murders and the lasting, devastating affect the crimes had on Jesperson’s relations and relations of the victims.
In keeping with Rolling Stone, within the Nineteen Nineties, the daddy of three killed not less than eight girls over a span of simply 5 years. He then taunted police investigating the case with letters emblazoned with mocking smiley faces. He’s presently in an Oregon penitentiary serving a life sentence with out the potential of parole.
“Glad Face follows Melissa (Annaleigh Ashford) and her incarcerated father, referred to as the ‘Glad Face Killer’ (Dennis Quaid),” reads an official logline for the collection. “After many years of no contact, he lastly finds a strategy to drive himself again into his daughter’s life. In a race in opposition to the clock, Melissa should discover out if an harmless man goes to be put to loss of life for against the law her father dedicated. All through, she discovers the affect her father had on his victims’ households and should face a reckoning of her personal id.”
The place to Watch the ‘Glad Face’ Collection
Glad Face premieres on Paramount+ on Thursday, March 20, 2025, with two episodes, and can air weekly on Thursdays till the collection finale on Might 1.
