Source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nWhat is the plot of ‘Based on a True Story’?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
This dark comedy thrillers follows a married couple, Ava (played by Kaley Cuoco) and Nathan (Chris Messina) who are short on cash as they expect their first child. When a serial killer pops up in their California neighborhood, they start a lucrative true crime podcast to earn that extra cash, inspired by real events. Ava, the true crime fan and her husband who’s along for the ride, get tangled in the murderous events and eventually get framed for the crimes themselves. The plot initially didn’t include Ava being pregnant, but when Kaley brought it up to the producers, they went along with it and got the writers to update her character to include the pregnancy. “It ended up being such an interesting part of this show,” Kaley notes, “The show is so funny and so wacky and so strange.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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‘Based on a True Story’ will premiere on Thursday, June 8 on Peacock TV with eight episodes in its first season. It’s a binge-worthy new comedy series directed by ‘Ozark’ and ‘AIR’ star Jason Bateman, starring Kaley Cuoco and Chris Messina. Whether they’re on set together or off set, their chemistry is off the charts! The biggest challenge the producers of […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":15021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,13,11],"tags":[904,1598,774,1597,302,1294,1596,1607,1444,1599],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14963"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15047,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14963\/revisions\/15047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}