Cecelia Ahern’s short stories come to life in Apple TV+’s twisted anthology series, Roar. Each episode of the eight-episode season focuses on the story of an ordinary woman in bizarre circumstances, and the official trailer teases what each of the eight women will be facing in their unique, stand-alone stories.
Roar stars Academy, Emmy, and Golden Globe Award winner Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos); Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award winner Cynthia Erivo (Harriet); six-time Emmy Award-nominee Issa Rae (Insecure); Emmy Award winner Merritt Wever (Unbelievable); SAG Award nominee Alison Brie (Happiest Season, GLOW); three-time Emmy Award-nominee Betty Gilpin (GLOW); Meera Syal (Yesterday), Fivel Stewart (Atypical), and Kara Hayward (Us).
Their stories include:
– The Woman Who Was Kept on a Shelf
– The Woman Who Disappeared
– The Woman Who Ate Photographs
– The Woman Who Was Fed By a Duck
– The Woman Who Solved Her Own Murder
– The Woman Who Returned Her Husband
– The Girl Who Loved Horses
– The Woman Who Found Bite Marks On Her Skin
The cast also includes Nick Kroll, Judy Davis, Alfred Molina, Daniel Dae Kim, Jake Johnson,
and Jason Mantzoukas. Chris Lowell, Ego Nwodim, Griffin Matthews, Peter Facinelli, Simon Baker, Hugh Dancy, Jillian Bell, Bernard White, and Justin Kirk are also featured in season one.
Apple TV+ will debut all eight episodes on April 15, 2022.
Roar marks the first series to be released under series creators, showrunners, and executive producers Carly Mensch and Liz Flahive’s deal with Apple TV+. Additional executive producers include Blossom Films’ Nicole Kidman and Per Saari; Made Up Stories’ Bruna Papandrea, Steve Hutensky, and Allie Goss; Greenlight Go’s Cecelia Ahern; and Per Capita Productions’ Theresa Park.
The Plot, Courtesy of Apple TV+:
Roar is an anthology series of darkly comic feminist fables. Spanning genres from magical realism to psychological horror, these eight stand-alone stories feature ordinary women in some pretty extraordinary circumstances. In Roar, women eat photographs, date ducks, live on shelves like trophies. And yet, their struggles are universal.
