Murder Most Foul, Read All About It!: Saint X In The Media

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Saint X is an eight drama TV series streaming on April 26, 2023 with 3 episodes and new episodes weekly. The Saint X TV series, based on a 2020 novel by Alexis Schaitkin, is told via multiple timelines, explores and upends the girl-gone-missing genre as it explores how a young woman, Alison Thomas, who disappears on the last night of a family vacation on a  idyllic Caribbean Island. Several days later, Alison’s dead body is found in a remote location on a nearby cay. The incident creates a traumatic ripple effect that eventually pulls Alison’s younger sister, Claire Emily Thomas, who was on vacation with her, into an obsessive and dangerous pursuit for the truth.

Michael Park as Bill Thomas, upper middle class father of two, enjoying a family vacation in a Caribbean resort until one of their daughters goes missing.   

Betsy Brandt as Mia Thomas, wife of Bill Thomas

West Duchovny as Alison Thomas, daughter of Bill Thomas, a smart and charismatic young woman who is beginning to look at her own privilege through a critical lens as she vacations with her family at a beautiful island resort.  

Alycia Debnam-Carey as Claire Emily Thomas, daughter of Bill Thomas, a sharp and ambitious editor of environmental documentaries whose carefully constructed, seemingly perfect life begins to crumble.  

Josh Bonzie as Clive "Gogo" Richardson, a warm-hearted yet reserved and clumsy 20-year-old who becomes a suspect in the killing Alison,  who becomes a hardened man after the events on Saint X when Emily meets him.

Jayden Elijah as Edwin, Clive's friend, a handsome and magnetically charming employee at the island’s resort who immediately captures Alison’s attention. He harbors a healthy distrust of the rich white people he’s paid to serve and dreams of one day leaving the island for New York. A suspect in the killing Alison.

Bre Francis as Sara 

Kenlee Anaya Townsend as Claire Emily Thomas, age 7 

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