Natalie Portman is finally your new Lady In The Lake
Not to be confused with Raymond Chandler’s Lady In The Lake, the new series is based on Laura Lippman’s 2019 novel
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Apple TV+ is finally ready to dredge the lake. The Lady In The Lake is heading to Apple TV+, nearly two years after an “extortion threat” that jeopardized its production. Nevertheless, now that that’s all squared away, Apple says Lady In The Lake will debut with two episodes on Friday, July 19. New episodes will be made available every Friday through August 23.
This is a new Lady In The Lake, though. There will be no Philip Marlowe mystery nor pulpy Raymond Chandler dialogue—and per the 1947 film adaptation, presumably no first-person perspective. This Lady In The Water is based on Laura Lippman’s 2019 bestseller. Set against the backdrop of a young girl from Baltimore’s disappearance at Thanksgiving in 1966, Lady In The Lake follows two ladies: Maddie Schwartz (Portman) and Cleo Johnson (Moses Ingram). As Schwartz, Portman plays our femme fatal and our detective, a Jewish housewife with a mysterious past she’s hoping to shake by reinventing herself as an investigative reporter. Schwartz becomes obsessed with an unsolved murder connected to Cleo, a Black woman struggling to provide for her family amid Baltimore’s political underbelly.
Two years ago, overblown reports that Lady In The Lake was being delayed over an extortion threat turned out to be a false alarm. A local street vendor was annoyed that the production hurt his business, and he was “arrested on narcotics charges” while “awaiting paperwork to receive compensation for lost business.” So it wasn’t an extortion threat, just someone’s life being ruined to make a TV show.
Lady In The Lake premieres on Apple TV+ on July 19.
Correction: An earlier version of this article stated Moses Ingram’s character name was Cleo Sherwood. It is Cleo Johnson. We regret the error.
12 Comments
So it’s not about a watery tart distributing swords? Pass.
And the title seems to have changed in the middle of the article: “This Lady In The Water is based on Laura Lippman’s 2019 bestseller.” Not a great sign!
That’s a typo. The Lippman novel was Lady in the Lake. So nothing to do with the terrible M. Night Shyamalan movie.
Yeah, that’s correct, Natalie Portman plays a scrunt.
On the other hand, perhaps lady detectives in Baltimore *are* a reasonable basis for a system of government!
These days that actually DOES sound like a reasonable basis for a system of government.
Well, hold up – if her arm is clad in the purest shimmering samite we might still have something here.
How else are we suppose to know who can wield executive power
Laura Lippman’s a pretty good writer. Married to David Simon. I think she might be the reason he’s a pretty good writer. Twist!
So street vendor waiting for reimbursement for lost revenue decided to start dealing drugs? Sounds like he was complicit in the “ruining.”
Bet you think those Boeing whistleblowers died under non-mysterious circumstances, too.
In that case I’d say there’s very little mystery how they died. JerkHole.But I don’t think Lady in the Lake producers stashed drugs on a street vendor to avoid a business interruption claim, no.