An all-star cast featured in season one alongside Nicole Kidman, with Melissa McCarthy playing one of the protagonists, lost-soul novelist Frances, as well as serving as an executive producer for the show. This marked the actor’s first leading TV role since her 2016 Emmy-winning performance in Mike & Molly.

Michael Shannon, Asher Keddie and Grace Van Patten starred as the Marconi family, grieving the death of their son and brother, while Luke Evans took on the role of Lars Lee, an undercover journalist there with a hidden agenda.

Melvin Gregg and Samara Weaving portrayed a young couple who had won the lottery, Regina Hall took on the role of a single mother of four children whose husband left her for a younger woman, and Bobby Cannavale plays Tony Hogburn, an ex-American football player struggling with a drug addiction.

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