Trailers: Murdaugh, English Teacher S2, Wake Up Dead, Culpa Nuestra

A Disney+ dramatisation of a murder trial embroiling one of South Carolina’s most powerful families will stream from October 15.

The eight-part series will launch with a triple-episode, with the rest rolling out weekly. Reads the blurb:

Maggie and Alex enjoy a lavish life of privilege as members of one of South Carolina’s most powerful legal dynasties. But when their son Paul is involved in a deadly boat crash, the family is faced with a test unlike any they’ve ever encountered. As details come to light and new challenges emerge, the family’s connections to several mysterious deaths raise questions which threaten everything Maggie and Alex hold dear. Inspired by the popular Murdaugh Murders Podcast.

Jason Clarke, Patricia Arquette, Johnny Berchtold, Will Harrison, Brittany Snow and J. Smith-Cameron star.

Here’s the trailer.

Disney+ also has unveiled the official trailer for 10 new episodes of FX’s English Teacher, which can be binged from September 26.

Season two of the high school comedy finds the staff and students caught up in issues like climate change, Covid, military recruitment and student phone usage.

It will stream here day-&-date with the US.

Netflix will premiere the latest Knives Out instalment, Wake Up Dead, on December 12, following a select theatrical run from November 27. Reads the blurb:

Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) returns for his most dangerous case yet in the third and darkest chapter of Rian Johnson’s murder mystery opus. When young priest Jud Duplenticy (Josh O’Connor) is sent to assist charismatic firebrand Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin), it’s clear that all is not well in the pews. Wicks’s modest-but-devoted flock includes devout church lady Martha Delacroix (Glenn Close), circumspect groundskeeper Samson Holt (Thomas Haden Church), tightly-wound lawyer Vera Draven, Esq. (Kerry Washington), aspiring politician Cy Draven (Daryl McCormack), town doctor Nat Sharp (Jeremy Renner), best-selling author Lee Ross (Andrew Scott), and concert cellist Simone Vivane (Cailee Spaeny). After a sudden and seemingly impossible murder rocks the town, the lack of an obvious suspect prompts local police chief Geraldine Scott (Mila Kunis) to join forces with renowned detective Benoit Blanc to unravel a mystery that defies all logic.

“The third entry in the series may be the sharpest yet,” Variety said of its Toronto International Film Festival premiere:

It’s a lavishly staged and lengthy gothic, and it too is trying for something grander than the first Knives Out. But this one is more rooted and organic than Glass Onion.

View the trailer here.

Prime Video will premiere the conclusion to its Mercedes Ron trilogy, Culpa Nuestra (Our Fault), on October 16.

The Spanish Original film follows the unprecedented success of its predecessors: Culpa Mía (My Fault) reached the top 10 in over 190 countries, and Culpa Tuya (Your Fault) was Prime Video’s most-watched international Original film at launch.

Reads the blurb:

Jenna and Lion’s wedding sets the stage for the long-awaited reunion between Noah and Nick, some time after their breakup. Nick’s inability to forgive Noah creates an seemingly insurmountable barrier between them. He, now heir to his grandfather’s business empire, and she, just starting her career, resist reigniting a flame that still smoulders within them. But now that their paths have crossed again, will love prove stronger than resentment?