Because of his reputation, each character may remember him in a positive or negative light. Every time you see Simon in a flashback, it’s through a living character’s memory. “He takes it upon himself to reveal everyone’s secrets,” said Mark McKenna (Simon). In life, Simon ran a gossip blog that, like Gossip Girl, terrorized the students at his high school.
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The murder victim, Simon, appears in the series via flashbacks past his death in the first episode. Everything is the most important thing in the moment.” He also created the hit young adult series Elite, though insisted that this series is thematically quite different and won’t be nearly as scandalous beyond the inciting murder. “When you are a teenager everything feels so important,” said Madrona. “ not really focused on her because she’s so preoccupied on her future that she doesn’t seem too young or too much fun,” said actress Marianly Tejada. Finally, there’s the brain, Bronwyn Rojas. Nate McCauley is the burnout “from the wrong side of the tracts,” per actor Cooper van Grootel). Cooper Clay is the athlete “on his way to signing a Major League deal,” according to actor Chibuikem Uche. Addy is the princess “Pressure to be perfect has absolutely gotten to her,” said actress Annalisa Cochrane. Just like the John Hughes movie, the four suspects come from four corners of the teenage social hierarchy, and all “have secrets that they would literally kill for,” according to showrunner Darío Madrona. The show - the first three episodes of which are currently available to stream - essentially asks “what if Gossip Girl was in detention with The Breakfast Club” and turns that question into a murder mystery when a high school student in detention is killed. “We have the same central mystery,” said Erica Saleh, who penned the pilot, but there’s more in store. There are new suspects and twists thrown in to keep everyone on their toes, according to the 2021 New York Comic Con virtual panel with the writers and actors of the new series. McManus’ bestselling novel One Of Us Is Lying, you won’t be able to predict who killed Simon on the Peacock series.