The First Look at Nicôle Lecky's New Drama 'Wild Cherry' Is Luxe
Though Nicôle Lecky‘s Mood — a musical drama about a budding singer trying to make it with the odds stacked against her — failed to garner much attention in the U.S. (buried as it was on the seemingly continually struggling BBC America), the show was kind of a big deal in the U.K, where it garnered rave reviews.
The series beat out critical darling This is Going to Hurt for Best Mini-Series at the 2023 BAFTA TV Awards, and made everyone suddenly very interested in what its creator Lecky was going to do next. We now have our first look at the answer: Wild Cherry. Her second drama for the BBC is described as a complicated look at mother/daughter relationships in the age of social media, apps, and peer pressure.
The series takes place in a fictional community called Richford Lake (an extremely unsubtle nod to the sort of people this show is about), where everyone is not only wealthy and privileged but protected, insulated from the consequences of their actions in a way that most people in England (or at least those who are not directly connected to the royal family) could never dream of. (To put it another way: The Big Little Lies vibes here are strong.)
