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NBC Releases First Look Trailer for Melissa Fumero’s Upcoming Drama Series “Grosse Pointe Garden Society”

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Melissa Fumero’s career is blossoming…

NBC has released the first look trailer of the newtork’s upcoming drama series Grosse Pointe Garden Society, starring the  42-year-old Cuban American actress.

Melissa Fumero, Grosse Pointe Garden SocietyThe series hails creator Jenna Bans, Bill Krebs and Universal Television.

“Here’s what they don’t tell you when you join a garden club,” begins a sneak peek trailer. “To make something grow, something has to die.” Segue to “I can’t believe we’re burying a body.”

Written by Bans and Krebs, Grosse Pointe Garden Society follows four members of a suburban garden club — Birdie (Fumero), Alice (AnnaSophia Robb), Brett (Ben Rappaport) and Catherine (Aja Naomi King) — who find their lives intertwined by scandal, mischief and a shared secret – a murder no one wants to talk about. As dark truths begin to rot their lives under the surface, they struggle to remain as perfect as the flowers blooming in their garden above.

Alexander Hodge, Nancy Travis, Matthew Davis and Felix Wolfe also star.

The series is somewhat reminiscent of Desperate Housewives, which involved a mysterious murder, a suicide and a load of suburban secrets.

Bans and Krebs serve co-showrunners and executive producers alongside Casey Kyber. Maggie Kiley directed and executive produces with Bans via her Minnesota Logging Co., Krebs and Casey Kyber. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, is the studio.

Grosse Pointe Garden Society premieres on Sunday, February 23 on NBC.

 

Melissa Fumero to Star in NBC Drama Pilot “Grosse Pointe Garden Society”

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Melissa Fumero is entering Society…

The 41-year-old Cuban American actress and former Brooklyn Nine-Nine star has been cast as a lead in Grosse Pointe Garden Society, NBC’s drama pilot from Jenna Bans, Bill Krebs and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.

Melissa FumeroFumero will star opposite AnnaSophia Robb and Ben Rappaport in the pilot.

The drama follows four members of a suburban garden club — three of them played by Fumero, Robb and Rappaport — all from different walks of life, who get caught up in murder and mischief as they struggle to make their conventional lives bloom.

Fumero plays Birdie. Entitled, rich, swathed in Chanel, a smoker, a drinker, self-destructive at times, toxic at others, but not without real pain beneath her facade, Birdie is a successful author whose memoir, “Digging for Gold: Dancing Through Divorce,” is a bestseller.

Robb plays Alice, your favorite high school English teacher, a dreamer whose best dreams are crashing down on her. She’s a longtime member of the Grosse Pointe Garden Society.

Rappaport plays Brett. Cool in a threadbare kind of way, Brett put his own dreams of starting a car restoration business on hold so his wife (now ex-wife) could finish law school. He continues his job as a manager of a garden store so he can take care of the kids.

Maggie Kiley is directing the pilot.

This marks Fumero’s return to NBC. She’s best known for her role as Amy Santiago in the critically acclaimed Brooklyn Nine-Nine, which ended its eight-season run on NBC. She won the Imagen Foundation Award for her work on the show.

Fumero recently was a voice cast member on Comedy Central’s adult animated series Digman! from Andy Samberg as well as Max’s Velma from Mindy Kaling.

She also starred opposite Randall Park in Netflix’s comedy series Blockbuster and in the IFC comedy film Barfight! with Rachel Bloom.