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In the quiet seaside town of Sommerdale, Marcus Goldman’s world is collapsing.
He’s been drawn to the small village on the coast of Maine by news it’s most famous local – Marcus’s friend, former college professor and the man widely regarded as the greatest writer of the 20th century Harry Quebert has been arrested for murder after the body of a girl missing for more than 30 years has been found buried in his garden.
New role: Patrick Dempsey in The Harry Quebert Affair.
Marcus (played by Ben Schnetzer) knows Harry (Patrick Dempsey) and the girl Nola (Kristine Froseth) were friends – possibly more – but he doesn’t believe he is a killer and he’s come to find out the truth.
But Marcus’s search for truth is a double-edged quest. As well as wanting to prove his friend’s innocence, he is an author himself, but battling writers block.
Just two months before Nola’s body was found, he visited Harry for advice and left after accidentally discovering photographs of the missing girl and a note suggesting she may have been Harry’s Lover.
At the time, Harry had shut down any discussion of Nola and told Marcus the best way through his writer’s block was to relax and that a story would find him.
And now Marcus is starting to believe that story just might be a real-life murder mystery with Harry the lead character.
“I kind of play the audience’s role within the series,” Schnetzer told Drama Quarterly last year.
“So, my character sees the twists to the story at the same time the audience sees them.”
And that was a long, detailed process, the actor added.
“Because we’ve shot the series as a movie, it hasn’t been shot episodically, it’s almost like shooting a 500-page film. I’ve had to do a lot more work chronologically, figuring out where in the story we are now – that’s definitely been an undertaking.”
Told in flashback between 1975 and the present following Harry’s time spent with Nola, who he first meets when she is dancing in the rain near his home to the days after his arrest, The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair is a taut psychological thriller bristling with twists and turns.
The characters, from Harry, Marcus and Nola to those around them including Damon Wayans Jr as the lead police investigator and Virginia Madsen as a woman who knows more than she is letting on are all too human, with a multitude of possibilities that could explain what has happened.
Did Harry do it? Or has he been framed? And why are those in Sommerdale so willing to believe the worst of a man they had until recently revered as their brightest star. And either way, what happened that led to a young girl being buried in a remote garden grave?
“The story is really intriguing and unsettling,” Dempsey told the London Express. “It made me feel uncomfortable at times, which was good.”
Based (appropriately enough) on the best-selling novel of the same name by Swiss author Joel Dicker and directed by Oscar-winning film maker Jean-Jacques Annaud, this mystery has already gripped millions around the world and is guaranteed to do the same in its screen transformation.
The ten-part mini-series is an explosive return to television for Dempsey, who quit the medical drama Gray’s Anatomy in 2015 after ten years of playing surgeon Derek “McDreamy” Shepherd.
Quebert is a world away from Shepherd and yet another rebirth from the actor who started his screen fame in romantic comedies.
And despite it being almost exactly a year out from the 2019 Emmy Awards, there’s already huge buzz that his performance here – and those of his co-stars – are almost certain to take home awards.
And it’s easy to see why.
Confused, conflicted, resigned and racked with guilt, Patrick Dempsey’s Harry is one of the most believable characters in years, caught up in a disaster that may or may not have been his own fault.
Naïve and yet still manipulative, Schnetzer’s Marcus is the perfect way to discover and unravel the mystery.
And through it all is Froseth’s Nola, the Lolita-esque girl on the edge of womanhood whose life was cut short.
Finding out just why and how they are all linked will be one of the greatest television treats of the year.
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