Karin Slaughter, author of Pieces of Her, will write all episodes of Fifth Season and Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories and produce the project. The series is based on Slaughter's New York Times bestseller The Good Daughter.
The project was released in early 2024, generated interest and eventually landed at Peacock with a series order.
In The Good Daughter, sisters Charlotte (Biel, pictured) and Samantha Quinn have spent the past 28 years trying to piece together their lives, which were torn apart by a single night of violence.
When another attack tears apart the small town of Pikeville, Charlotte is the first witness on the scene. Now a lawyer like her father, she is forced to face her own demons as the case twists with one shocking revelation after another. Ultimately, both she and Samantha wonder if the price of being the good daughter was worth it.
Papandrea, Steve Hutensky and Casey Haver will executive produce for Fifth Season. Biel and Michelle Purple will executive produce for Iron Ocean.
The project reunites Papandrea's Made Up Stories with Slaughter after they collaborated on the Netflix limited series adaptation of her novel Pieces of Her.
Biel, an Emmy nominee for The Sinner, will soon be seen opposite Ethan Hawke and Daniel Radcliffe in Batso, the true story of a trio of pioneering climbers who took the toughest route to Yosemite National's El Capitan summit in the early 1970s Park. She was recently seen in Hulu's true crime series Candy as the infamous ax murderer Candy Montgomery.