Uzo Aduba is saying goodbye to treating sufferers in remedy and good day to investigating a murder in the White House. The three-time Emmy winner is following up her newest function on the small display, enjoying Dr. Brooke Taylor in “In Treatment,” with “The Residence,” a murder-mystery drama hailing from Shondaland. Deadline reviews that Liza Johnson will direct the first 4 episodes of the collection.
Taking inspiration from Kate Andersen Brower’s ebook “The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House,” “the eight-episode series is described as ‘a screwball whodunnit set in the upstairs, downstairs, and back stairs of the White House, among the eclectic staff of the world’s most famous mansion.’ Its premise: 132 rooms. 157 suspects. One dead body. One wildly eccentric detective (Aduba). One disastrous State Dinner,” the supply teases.
Aduba, who gained two Emmys for “Orange is the New Black” and one for “Mrs. America,” has been forged as Cordelia Cupp, “a consulting detective for the Metropolitan Police Department. Cupp is an astute observer of human behavior, with a distinctive and – to some, unsettling – conversational style.”
Johnson’s latest credit embody “The Last of Us,” “The Sex Lives of College Girls,” and “Dead to Me.”
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