48 minSeason 1 • Episode 4
UpcomingAnna leans on Max to help with a new client. Natalie and Amber get closer. Zack offers an apology.
When convicted murderer Max Cady is released from prison, he begins infiltrating the family of the married attorneys who helped put him behind bars.
Acting
Bardem's biblical Cady vs. Adams' unraveling matriarch.
Direction
Antosca stretches dread like taffy across ten hours.
Writing
Legal ethics as slow-motion horror.
Creator
Nick Antosca
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This marks the third adaptation of John D. MacDonald's 'The Executioners' — following Peck/Robert Mitchum (1962) and De Niro/Nolte (1991), now gender-flipping the protagonist family entirely.
Antosca deliberately structured episode lengths unevenly (42-78 minutes) to disorient viewers, mirroring Cady's unpredictable invasion of the Bowdens' carefully scheduled lives.
US
