Apple TV+’s new trailer for City on Fire teases the murder at the heart of the series while briefly dipping into the lives of the key players. The mystery thriller, inspired by Garth Risk Hallberg’s popular novel, premieres on May 12, 2023 with the release of the first three episodes.
Additional episodes of the eight-episode season will air on Fridays leading up to the June 16th finale.
The cast is led by Wyatt Oleff as Charlie and Chase Sui Wonders as Samantha, the murder victim. Jemima Kirke, Nico Tortorella, Ashley Zukerman, Xavier Clyde, Max Milner, Alexandra Doke, Omid Abtahi, Kathleen Munroe, John Cameron Mitchell, Geoff Pierson, and Beth Malone also star.
The O.C. and Gossip Girl‘s Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage wrote, executive produced, and served as showrunners. Executive producer Jesse Peretz directed four of the eight episodes.
The City on Fire Plot, Courtesy of Apple TV+:
In City on Fire, an NYU student is shot in Central Park on the Fourth of July, 2003. Samantha is alone; there are no witnesses and very little physical evidence. Her friends’ band is playing at her favorite downtown club, but she leaves to meet someone, promising to return. She never does.
As the crime against Samantha is investigated, she’s revealed to be the crucial connection between a series of mysterious citywide fires, the downtown music scene, and a wealthy uptown real estate family fraying under the strain of the many secrets they keep.
Chase Sui Wonders stars as Samantha, and Wyatt Oleff plays Charlie, a friend of Samantha’s who is struggling to cope with the death of his father on 9/11 two years earlier. After Samantha is shot, he stops at nothing to unravel the mystery of what happened.
