Nocturne launches with two episodes on Apple TV

Nocturne begins on Apple TV on 30 October with two episodes. The ten-part crime drama adapts Lars Kepler’s The Sandman and Lazarus, starring Liev Schreiber, Zazie Beetz and Stephen Graham. [1]

In Mark Kennedy’s AP interview, showrunner John Hlavin links the move from Scandinavia to western Pennsylvania to a contrast between an underground prison and open woodland. That explanation presents the new setting as part of the drama’s design, rather than a simple change of place names. [2]

In Apple’s synopsis, the rural location is initially Jonah Lynn’s hoped-for escape from Philadelphia; the killer’s threat then reaches his family and town. Schreiber plays Lynn, Graham plays Jurek Walter and Beetz plays FBI agent Saga Bauer. [1]

Apple’s current US listings show episodes one and two, and mark episode three for 6 November. Its announced weekly Friday schedule runs to 25 December. [1][3] This is an opening instalment, not a whole-season release. EWN did not watch or review the episodes.