Grosse Pointe Garden Society brings color to murder mysteries with a fresh new approach.
With a garden serving as the backdrop for an intricate murder mystery, Grosse Pointe Garden Society is based on the affluent Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, where four friends try to hide after finding themselves responsible for a shocking death. Melissa Fumero, Aja Naomi King, Ben Rappaport, AnnaSophia Robb, Matthew Davis, Alexander Hodge, Nancy Travis and Felix Wolfe make up the show’s cast.
“Throughout the episodes, we go through different parallel timelines. We jump back and forth between timelines,” Rappaport, who plays Brett, teased to Us Weekly in February 2025. “So you’re like, ‘Wow, how did we end up here?’ Then throughout the season, those timelines begin to converge.”
The actor praised creators Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs for bringing the series to life, adding, “It is remarkable how they have woven this thing together. The rollercoaster ride they’ve taken us on is absolutely incredible every day. Every couple of weeks, we would get the new scripts and react like, ‘Oh my God, what happens next?’ And we’re just dying for the next one.”
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Rappaport continued: “All four of us have our own very intricate storylines that branch off of this. Truly, it just keeps you guessing all along the way. And that’s the thing that’s going to hook people is the addictive quality. Every episode you think you’re getting closer — but then maybe you’re not.”
Keep scrolling for everything to know so far about NBC’s Grosse Pointe Garden Society:
When Does ‘Grosse Pointe Garden Society’ Premiere?
Grosse Pointe Garden Society premieres on NBC Sunday, February 23, at 10 p.m. ET and new episodes are available to stream on Peacock the next day.
What Does the ‘Grosse Pointe Garden Society’ Trailer Reveal?
In the official trailer, which Us Weekly exclusively debuted in February 2025, an unlikely friend group tried to cover their tracks after killing someone.
“I can’t believe we are burying a body,” Fumero’s character, Birdie, said before confessing to Officer Joel (Davis) that she and her friends “sort of murdered someone.”
Robb’s Alice set the scene for the crime in a voiceover. “People are like the flowers they plant. Some flowers are wild and without boundaries,” she noted. “We all may look perfect on the surface.”
More footage introduced a reason why each person could have killed someone. Alice realized that one of her students “threatened” her while Birdie questioned whether people in her life “hate” her. King’s character called her life a “mess” after cheating on her husband. While Rappaport questioned why his ex left him for another man.
“People always think they can get away with it,” Birdie added. “Maybe they shouldn’t.”
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What Is the Synopsis of ‘Grosse Pointe Garden Society’?
According to the synopsis, Grosse Pointe Garden Society follows four members of a suburban garden club “who find their lives intertwined by scandal, mischief and a shared secret — a murder no one wants to talk about.” As the dark truths “begin to rot their lives under the surface, they struggle to remain as perfect as the flowers blooming in their garden above.”
Who Makes Up the ‘Grosse Pointe Garden Society’ Cast?
At the center of Grosse Pointe Garden Society is Fumero, King, Rappaport and Robb. The show also stars Davis, Hodge, Travis and Wolfe.
Several of the main cast members — including Fumero and King — had a history with darker shows before signing on to Grosse Pointe Garden Society.
“They just happen to come up for me,” Fumero exclusively told Us in December 2024. “So something about me screams mystery. But I’ll take it. It’s a genre that I enjoy and I’m not complaining.”
What Secrets Were Kept From Viewers — And Stars of the Show?
“As a cast we just found out very recently [who was killed]. That information we are sworn to secrecy over,” Rappaport teased to Us. “But for a long time we did not know. That’s part of what was so fun about the twists and turns. Just like the audience, they really kept us guessing.”
What Can Fans Expect?
“One of the main through lines of this whole series is the secret,” Rappaport continued. “That’s the thing that binds this group together. First of all, it’s a fish out of water story where these are real-life people living these normal — maybe even mundane suburban lives — that get caught in this extraordinary circumstance.”
He added: “None of them have ever been through anything like this before. So this secret at the center of it is the thing that bonds them together in a really, really, really deep way. Anything that can throw a monkey wrench into that is going to cause high anxiety.”
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