‘Reverie’ TV Show Preview: Cast Info, Plot Details, and Photos

Person of Interest fan favorite Sarah Shahi and Incorporated‘s Dennis Haysbert headline NBC’s new dramatic series, Reverie. The series is set to air during the summer primetime season, kicking off on May 30, 2018. NBC’s set a Wednesdays at 10pm ET/PT time slot for the thriller from Mickey Fisher, the creator of Extant.

In addition to Sarah Shahi and Dennis Haysbert, season one features Sendhil Ramamurthy (Heroes Reborn), Kathryn Morris (Cold Case), and Jessica Lu (Awkward.). Reverie is executive produced by Mickey Fisher, Tom Szentgyorgyi, Brooklyn Weaver, Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey.

Jaume Collet-Serra (The Shallows, Run All Night) directed the pilot episode. Other season one directors include Michael Katleman, PJ Pesce, Matt Earl Beesley, Dawn Wilkinson, John Showwalter, and Daisy Mayer.

The Plot: This grounded new thriller follows Mara Kint (Sarah Shahi), a former hostage negotiator and expert on human behavior who became a college professor after facing an unimaginable personal tragedy. But when her former boss, Charlie Ventana (Dennis Haysbert), brings her in to save ordinary people who have lost themselves in a highly advanced immersive virtual-reality program in which you can live out your ildest dreams, she finds that in saving others, she may actually have discovered a way to save herself.

Reverie Season 1 Cast
Kathryn Morris as Monica Shaw, Sendhil Ramamurthy as Paul Hammond, Sarah Shahi as Mara Knit, Jessica Lu as Alexis Barrett, and Dennis Haysbert as Charlie Ventana in ‘Reverie’ (Photo by Paul Drinkwater / NBC)
Reverie Season 1 Sarah Shahi
Sarah Shahi as Mara Kint in season 1 of ‘Reverie’ (Photo by Sergei Bachlakov / NBC)
Reverie Season 1 Dennis Haysbert
Dennis Haysbert as Charlie Ventana and Kathryn Morris as Monica Shaw (Photo by: Sergei Bachlakov / NBC)
Reverie Season 1 Dennis Haysbert
Dennis Haysbert as Charlie Ventana and Sendhil Ramamurthy as Paul Hammond in ‘Reverie’ (Photo by: Sergei Bachlakov / NBC)
Reverie Season 1 Sarah Shahi
Sarah Shahi as Mara Kint (Photo by: Sergei Bachlakov / NBC)
Reverie Season 1 Sarah Shahi
Sarah Shahi as Mara Kint and Sendhil Ramamurthy as Paul Hammond (Photo by: Sergei Bachlakov / NBC)
Reverie Season 1 Sarah Shahi
Sarah Shahi as Mara Knit and Dennis Haysbert as Charlie Ventana (Photo by: Sergei Bachlakov / NBC)