Apples Never Fall (2024)

A limited series adaption of Liane Moriarty’s ninth novel just like those of previous novels Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers, this offering from Peacock stars Annette Bening as Joy Delaney, a recently retired tennis star-turned-coach living in West Palm Beach, Florida, who suddenly disappears. Each episode is named after and follows a different character both before and after Joy goes missing. There’s her husband Stan (Sam Neill), their children Amy (Alison Brie), a life coach, Troy (Jake Lacy), a venture capitalist, Logan (Conor Merrigan-Turner) a former athlete who now lives on a houseboat and does yoga, and Brooke (Essie Randles), a struggling physical therapist. Then there’s Savannah (Georgia Flood), who showed up wounded on the Delaneys’ door and has become another surrogate child to care for. Brooke and Savannah end up hooking up so we get lots of sapphic smooches between Essie and Georgia, plus Pooja Shah comes on the scene in her bra as a woman who gets into bed with Conor. If the houseboat’s a-rockin’… well, you know.