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Writer Laura Lippman on 'Lady in the Lake,' filmed and set in Baltimore

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Episode • Jul 19, 2024 • 17m

A new show on Apple TV is set, and was filmed in, Baltimore. Based on author Laura Lippman's 2019 novel, 'Lady and the Lake' is a noir thriller following a pair of women whose lives intersect as they are forced to pay a price for their dreams.

Maddie Schwartz, played by Natalie Portman, is a Jewish housewife seek a new life as an investigative journalist. Meanwhile Cleo Johnson, played by Moses Ingram, is a mother in Black Baltimore navigating its political paradigms.

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