Grosse Pointe Garden Society - Anticipation

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Grosse Pointe Garden Society

Category - Drama

Network - NBC

Release Date - TBA

Synopsis:

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Four members of a suburban garden club - Birdie (Fumero), Alice (Robb), Brett (Rappaport) and Catherine (King) - all from different walks of life, get caught up in murder and mischief as they struggle to make their conventional lives bloom.

Additional Info:

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The series is written and produced by Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs. Bans is well known for creating NBC's Good Girls, while Krebs has worked on shows like Workaholics, Ugly Americans, and Franklin & Bash.

Cast & Characters:

AnnaSophia Robb plays Alice - your favorite high school English teacher, a dreamer whose best dreams are crashing down on her. She’s a longtime member of the Grosse Pointe Garden Society.

Melissa Fumero plays Birdie - entitled, rich, swathed in Chanel, a smoker, a drinker, self-destructive at times, toxic at others, but not without real pain beneath her facade, Birdie is a successful author whose memoir, Digging for Gold: Dancing Through Divorce, is a bestseller.

Ben Rappaport plays Brett - cool in a threadbare kind of way, Brett put his own dreams of starting a car restoration business on hold so his wife (now ex-wife) could finish law school. He continues his job as a manager of a garden store so he can take care of the kids.

Aja Naomi King plays Catherine - an unhappily married mother of two younger children, a realtor and active member of the Garden Society who works off some of her loneliness with a very juicy secret. 

Alexander Hodge plays Doug - Alice’s (Robb) husband. He once had dreams of being a wildly successful artist, but like Alice, his dreams have dwindled over the years, and now fills his time by painting signs for local restaurants.

Nancy Travis plays Patty - Doug’s (Hodge) overbearing mother and Alice’s (Robb) nightmare mother-in-law. She is a social climber dying for a grandchild and has no problem getting into Alice and Doug’s business about why they’re taking so long.

Matthew Davis plays Joel - a police officer, Misty’s (Daniella Alonso) husband and the father of their adopted son, Ford, whom Birdie (Fumero) takes an interest in. Burned out by his job and life in this suburban town, he just needs the slightest push to embrace a dark side of his own.

Felix Avitia portrays Ford - Joel and Misty’s son. An uninspired student with no direction, he’s surprised by Birdie’s (Fumero) sudden interest in helping him make his way in the world. 

 

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Edited July 22 by Snazzy Daisy