'Lady in the Lake' is a historical drama starring Natalie Portman that follows a dissatisfied housewife who leaves her husband to pursue work as an investigative journalist and attempts to unravel the truth about two recent murders in her community. Learn about the cast, plot, and more, here.
In 1969 Baltimore, a girl and a woman were murdered. When 11-year-old Esther Lebowitz was found in the basement of a pet store, authorities quickly identified and convicted her killer. That same year, the body of Shirley Lee Widgeon Parker, a Black bartender and Urban League secretary who had gone missing, was found in a fountain.
These two deaths, and the stark differences in how they were treated, served as the inspiration for the 2019 noveland Moses Ingram. It marks Portman's first-ever appearance in a TV show, and a highly anticipated appearance for Ingram, who starred infollows Maddie Schwartz, a dissatisfied housewife shaken by a series of recent murders in her community.
The source material, a 2019 novel of the same name by Laura Lippman, offers clues as to how the series will play out. Schwartz is determined to discover the truth about Sherwood's death, though nobody else in the community seems to share her interest. Schwartz is driven by secrets from her past and similarities between her life and Sherwood's. But as she gets closer to the truth, the people around her begin to pay the price.
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