Apple TV+ Might Have the Next ‘Big Little Lies’ on its Hands With ‘Surface’
Fans of Big Little Lies, The White Lotus, and other perplexing puzzle shows have a new summer thriller to piece together in Surface. Gugu Mbatha-Raw has lost track of her entire life in the first trailer for the upcoming Apple TV+ series, thanks to one nearly fatal tumble from a boat. Did she actually have the ideal life—or was there a reason she jumped?
“If my life was so perfect, why did I try to end it?” Sophie (Mbatha-Raw) asks herself in the trailer, as everyone else urges her to move on. Seems like everyone’s in on a secret that Sophie just can’t figure out.
Because, on paper, Sophie’s life does look perfect. She’s living in a lovely home in San Francisco–and if you know the Bay Area, you’ll understand those pieces of real estate aren’t cheap!—with her handsome husband (Oliver Jackson-Cohen). Maybe, just maybe, with such a crisp, clean life, she didn’t actually jump from that boat. She was pushed.