The best TV shows are the ones that bring us some deliciously honest drama - and Wild Cherry is set to deliver just that.
The BBC's upcoming relationship drama follows two best friends and their teenage daughters, whose loyalties are pushed to breaking point when a scandal breaks out at their private school.
Exploring toxic relationships, social media and class, it’s a glossy series that’ll certainly put your emotions to the test!
Blending elements of popular dramas we love including Big Little Lies (https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/lifestyle/a34343298/big-little-lies-season-3-news-cast-plot-air-date/), Adolescence (https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/lifestyle/a63453816/adolescence-netflix/)and The White Lotus (https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/lifestyle/a64407803/the-white-lotus-series-4/), the action takes place in an ultra-wealthy gated community in the Home Counties.
Carmen Ejogo and Eve Best play the two "grown-up" best friends, Lorna and Juliet, who - despite living the same mega-rich lifestyle - come from very different backgrounds.
When their daughters are implicated in a scandal, everything changes - with Lorna and Juliet forced to take sides. And let's just say, things get pretty ugly.
The six-part thriller is set in Richford Lake, a fictional gated community in the Home Counties designed for the ultra-wealthy, where nothing bad ever happens (or does it..?).
There, we meet Lorna (Carmen Ejogo), a self-made, successful businesswoman from London who’s got where she is through hard work.
Then there’s her best friend Juliet (Eve Best), a woman born into privilege.
Their status as close confidants is suddenly thrown into question when their daughters, Grace and Allegra, are implicated in a shocking scandal at their private school.
Lorna and Juliet are forced to take sides, and their friendship is pushed to breaking point as they navigate privilege, power and betrayal.
According to the BBC’s official synopsis, Wild Cherry is a “provocative and deliciously honest look at mother/daughter relationships amid the whirlwind of social media, hidden apps and relentless peer pressure that asks: how far will we go to protect our children?
And just how much do teenage girls know about the women raising them? If the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, then who is leading these girls astray?”
Wild Cherry is created by Nicôle Lecky, who’s written on Eastenders and Death in Paradise (https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/lifestyle/a68151298/return-to-paradise-series-2/), plus her 2022 musical drama Mood, which won two BAFTAs.
Nicôle said the series was inspired by her experiences of the super-rich in England. “I used to drive through a gated community in Surrey and I would look at these mansions and think, ‘Gosh who lives there?’,” she told Deadline. “It had such a strong sense of an England that I hadn’t seen before. I knew I wanted to set something there.”
The cast of Wild Cherry includes:
• Carmen Ejogo (True Detective, The Penguin) as Lorna
• Eve Best (House of the Dragon, The King’s Speech) as Juliet
• Amelia May as Allegra, Juliet's daughter
• Imogen Faires (Goldie’s Oldies, Marcella) as Grace, Lorna's daughter
• Sophie Winkleman (Peep Show, Sanditon)
• Daniel Lapaine (Muriel’s Wedding)
• Hayat Kamille (Vikings: Valhalla)
• Isabelle Allen (Les Misérables, Find Me in Paris)
• James Murray (Masters of the Air, The Crown)
• Jason York (Mood, Dreaming Whilst Black)
• Katarina Čas (The Wolf of Wall Street)