Aja Naomi King’s ‘HTGAWM’ Costar Jack Falahee Joins ‘Grosse Pointe Garden Society’ in Guest Role

Grosse Pointe Garden Society is setting up a How to Get Away With Murder reunion between Aja Naomi King and Jack Falahee — and their first scene is more flirty than expected.

Us Weekly can reveal that Falahee, 36, will guest star on two upcoming episodes of the NBC series. The actor plays Pierce a.k.a the charming owner of Goldman Properties who has a run-in with Catherine. Despite offering her an interview with his firm, Pierce becomes an unlikely adversary for King’s character.

In a clip from the Sunday, March 30, episode of Grosse Pointe Garden Society, Catherine and Pierce meet at a coffee shop and their scenes are full of chemistry after starting off on an awkward note.

“I heard a lot about you,” Pierce tells Catherine, who takes his comment the wrong way, “Yes, it is all true. I banged [Gary’s] brains out in every house in Grosse Pointe but you know what you didn’t hear? I sold all those houses. Not Gary, not his father-in-law and definitely not the rest of that frat house they called a reality office. It was all me.”

Pierce takes Catherine’s comments in stride, saying, “That is exactly what I heard. Look, if you ever want to get back in the game, we need a closer. Not that kind though.”

The newest episode of Grosse Pointe Garden Society marks the first time King, 40, and Falahee will share the screen since ABC’s HTGAWM, which also starred Viola Davis, Alfred Enoch and ran from 2014 to 2020, came to an end. (Falahee will also return for the April 4 episode of Grosse Pointe Garden Society.)

King previously spoke to Us about how her time playing Michaela would be referenced on Grosse Pointe Garden Society.”There might be a thing or two in there that’s going to feel like a definite nod,” she teased.

NBC’s new drama series, which premiered in February, follows a friend group keeping a secret from the police. Grosse Pointe Garden Society felt reminiscent of How to Get Away With Murder, which aired from 2014 to 2020, and followed a defense attorney who becomes involved in a complex murder plot alongside her five law students.

“That’s one of the reasons why I wanted to do Grosse Pointe Garden Society in the first place. There was an aspect of it that just felt like nostalgia,” King told Us. “It was giving off those How to Get Away With Murder and Desperate Housewives vibes. It’s just like a warm hug watching this show because of how familiar it is.”

King noted that Grosse Pointe Garden Society quickly stands on its own, though. “The premise is so different from both of those shows. We start with four friends in a garden club and how they get entangled in a murder, which is not exactly how you want things to go,” she quipped. “But it’s set in the city of Grosse Pointe, which is a neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan, and is a very upper-class, affluent neighborhood.”

The actress highlighted how Catherine compares to Michaela, adding, “Catherine is someone who is established as old money and has been there forever. She’s someone who’s the essence of Grosse Pointe and is just trying to maintain everything that her parents have established for her to have there.”

King was thrilled to play such a “powerful presence.”

“It’s very different from what I’ve done with other characters in that sense. Just energetically, it’s coming from a different place because she is so established in the community,” she continued. “It’s less about trying to prove something to someone and more about maintaining what has already been proven.”

Grosse Pointe Garden Society airs on NBC Fridays at 8 p.m. ET, and new episodes are available to stream on Peacock the next day.