Overview
- The eight-episode half-hour series premiered Tuesday, Oct. 20, with two episodes available on Hulu and new episodes released weekly.
- Creator Nick Paley and co-showrunner Anthony King center the story on Sonny, a teenager who wakes from a car crash convinced his mother has been replaced and narratively place viewers inside his unreliable perspective.
- Connie Britton plays both versions of Sonny’s mother and producers used delicate makeup and minor visual effects to make her look subtly altered so viewers feel Sonny’s doubt.
- Early critical screenings of four episodes show the show balancing teen-drama humor with thriller elements and introducing concrete plot clues—including a plastic-wrapped body seen dumped and a suspicious $15,000 bank transfer—that push the mystery beyond pure subjectivity.
- Reviews praise Sam Nivola’s lead turn and the young ensemble while warning that the series’ ultimate success will depend on how the remaining episodes resolve the central mystery and balance tone with explanation.