Apple TV+ has debuted the official trailer for the new psychological, heartfelt thriller series “The Last Thing He Told Me,” a limited show adapted from Laura Dave’s #1 New York Times bestselling eponymous novel.
Created and adapted by Dave in collaboration with Oscar-winning co-creator Josh Singer, and boasting an all-star cast headed up by Jennifer Garner (Yes Day, Peppermint – also serving as Executive Producer), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (“Game of Thrones,” The Silencing), Angourie Rice (Spider-Man: Far From Home, The Nice Guys), Aisha Tyler, Augusto Aguilera, Geoff Stults and John Harlan Kim, the seven-part drama centers on Hannah (Garner), a woman who, on setting out to discover the truth behind her husband’s mysterious disappearance, starts to build a new future with her sullen sixteen-year-old stepdaughter Bailey (Rice); a future and a relationship neither of them could have anticipated.
“The Last Thing He Told Me” marks the first collaboration between the married Dave and Singer, who both serve as executive producers alongside Jennifer Garner and Hello Sunshine’s Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter. The series is produced for Apple by Hello Sunshine, who optioned the book from author Laura Dave and serves as the studio on the project with 20th Television. Olivia Newman directs the pilot episode, and the all-female director lineup for the series includes Deniz Gamze Erguven, Daisy Von Scherler Mayer, and Lila Neugebauer.
Published in hardcover by Simon & Schuster on May 4, 2021, the novel “The Last Thing He Told Me” became an instant #1 New York Times Bestseller and remained on the list for more than a year. It was the winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Thriller/Suspense of 2021, an Amazon Best Book of the year in 2021, an Apple Best Book of the year in 2021; and, in 2022, “The Last Thing He Told Me” was one of the most popular books checked out at libraries across America as well as the #1 most popular e-book. To date, the book has sold more than 2 million copies in the United States alone and has been embraced in thirty-eight countries around the globe, including the UK, where it was a Richard and Judy bookclub pick. The paperback edition of “The Last Thing He Told Me” will be available for the first time on March 21, 2023 and available to preorder now.
The series marks the latest high-profile collaboration between Apple and Hello Sunshine, and will join a lineup of projects produced by Hello Sunshine for Apple TV+ including the soon to premiere “My Kind of Country,” a groundbreaking global search for unconventional and extraordinary country music talent and the first competition series for the platform; recently renewed psychological thriller “Surface,” starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw; Emmy, SAG and Critics Choice Award-winning series “The Morning Show”; and, the NAACP Image Award-winning drama series “Truth Be Told,” starring Octavia Spencer.
“The Last Thing He Told Me” will premiere worldwide on Apple TV+ with the first two episodes on Friday, 14 April 2023, followed by new episodes every Friday through to 19 May. In the meantime, we’ll leave you with the aforementioned trailer to give you a sense of the breakneck pacing, jaw-dropping twists and gripping family drama audiences can expect from this highly-anticipated limited series.
