What's On? Idaho Today TV picks for the week include author Liane Moriarty's bestseller Apples Never Fall, which was made into a limited series for Peacock television. This potboiler whodunnit serves as a cautionary tale about not taking your mother for granted.
Moriarty's beach read thrillers tend to center on uniquely female experiences within affluent settings. Her book Big Little Lies became a smash hit small-screen adaptation for HBO, and Hulu adapted her Nine Perfect Strangers.
Now, Peacock's Apples Never Fall features a dynamite cast and was developed by Melanie Marnich, who deftly adapted Moriarty's novel for television. Oscar-nominated actress Annette Bening is paired with Sam Neill, who heads up the picture-perfect, athletically accomplished Delaney family in West Palm Beach.
Former tennis coaches Stan (Neill) and Joy (Bening) are facing retirement and have sold their tennis academy as their adult children are embarking on different life paths.
The kids are Troy (Jake Lacy), Amy (Alison Brie), Logan (Conor Merrigan-Turner), and Brooke (Essie Randles). And like any family, each grown child has their strengths and faults. But everything in the Delaney world changes when a distressed young woman knocks on Joy and Stan's door one night, claiming she is the victim of domestic abuse. Joy's maternal instincts kick in, and the family is changed forever by "Savannah" (GeorgiaFlood), who, despite the subtle warning signs she shows, reveals the Delaney matriarch has some maternal blinders and should have done more due diligence on this mysterious person.
When Joy suddenly disappears, all four children are in the untenable spot of having to re-examine their parents' marriage, their own childhood experiences, and history, and as time progresses and their mother Joy is a missing person still, their father's anger issues and darkest family secrets.
Apples Never Fall is streaming on Peacock.