Accused Exclusive: Cobie Smulders Among Fox Drama’s Final Season 2 Castings — Watch Trailer (Exclusive)
MCU and HIMYM vet Cobie Smulders is among the final flurry of castings for Season 2 of Fox’s Accused crime anthology.
Based on the BBC’s BAFTA Award-winning crime anthology and developed by Howard Gordon, Fox’s Accused each season serves up collection of topical and human stories of crime and punishment. Told from the defendant’s point of view through flashbacks, each episode promises a provocative thriller, exploring a different crime, in a different city, and with an entirely original cast.
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Get an exclusive peek at the Season 2 trailer above.
Smulders, TVLine has learned, will carry the title role in the episode “Val’s Story,” in which a woman is faced with the unimaginable when her ex-husband gets into an accident.
Vella Lovell (of Fox’s Animal Control) and Dina Shihabi (Painkiller) have also been cast in “Val’s story,” while Isabel Arraiza (Outer Range) will appear in Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy’s episode, “Lorraine’s Story.”
Accused Season 2 premieres Tuesday, Oct. 8 at 8/7c (where it will lead into the freshman drama Murder in a Small Town, starring Rossif Sutherland and Kristin Kreuk). Check out the main cast for seven of the new season’s eight episodes below:
“Lorraine’s Story” (season premiere): Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy
“April’s Story”: Taylor Schilling, Justin Chambers, Danny Pino
“Marcus’ Story”: Nick Cannon, Patrick J. Adams, Jerrika Hinton
“Margot’s Story”: Debra Winger, Christine Ebersole, Mercedes Ruehl
“Justin’s Story”: returning Season 1 guest star Michael Chiklis
“Val’s Story”: Cobie Smulders, Vella Lovell, Dina Shihabi
“Eugene’s Story”: Ken Jeong (and directed by Chiklis)
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