The true crime genre is going stronger than ever and HBO is throwing its hat in the ring with My Dentist’s Murder Trial. David Harbour and Pedro Pascal are set to play lead roles in this limited series, based on a hit New Yorker article.
Steve Conrad wrote and is set to direct the pilot episode, based on James Lasdun’s 2017 New Yorker article “My Dentist’s Murder Trial: Adultery, false identities, and a lethal sedation”. The series will chronicle the true story of Upstate New York dentist Dr. Gilberto Nunez, who was indicted for the death of his friend Thomas Kolman.
Pascal will play Dr. Nunez, who stood trial after being indicted for killing Kolman by getting him “to ingest a substance that caused his death”, after having an affair with his wife Linda. He eventually went to prison on fraud charges but was not found guilty of murder.
Harbour most recently returned as Jim Hopper on the fourth season of Stranger Things, and we’ll soon see him in Christmas action-comedy Violent Night. The Mandalorian star Pedro Pascal previously collaborated with HBO on Game of Thrones, and he’s set to appear in their highly-anticipated video game adaptation The Last of Us next year.
