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EXCLUSIVE: After 2 very successful back-to-back Netflix constricted series, Maid and Sirens, Molly Smith Metzler is looking to widen her streak with The Retrievals. The streamer has greenlighted nan caller bid from Metzler, who serves arsenic writer, executive shaper and showrunner, and her Maid and Sirens collaborators, writer-producer Colin McKenna pinch LuckyChap. The Retrievals is presently designated arsenic a drama, it is yet unclear whether it will beryllium a constricted bid for illustration Metzler’s erstwhile Netflix hits. It stems from Metzler’s wide woody pinch Netflix.
After basing Maid on a memoir and Sirens connected a play, Metzler is drafting upon a different benignant of root worldly for The Retrievals — it is an adjustment of nan Peabody Award-winning podcast of nan aforesaid sanction by Susan Burton from Serial Productions and The New York Times.
Inspired by nan podcast, The Retrievals follows 1 woman’s crusade against Yale Fertility Center aft she (and almost 100 different women) were operated connected without anesthesia during IVF ovum retrieval procedures — because a caregiver stole their fentanyl. A powerful and amazingly funny communicative astir an improbable organization that dares to return connected 1 of nan largest institutions successful nan nation.
Metzler executive produces alongside Margot Robbie and Tom Ackerley’s LuckyChap, McKenna, Caitlin Roper for The New York Times, and Burton.
Both Maid and Sirens person been apical performers for Netflix. The 2021 Maid spent a staggering 14 weeks successful Netflix’s play English Top 10, including a 2023 reentry amid surge successful fame connected TikTok, and and besides spent immoderate clip connected Netflix’s Top 10 Most Popular List. The 2025 Sirens was successful nan Top 10 for 8 weeks, including aggregate weeks astatine No.1. Both bid besides earned aggregate Emmy nominations, pinch Maid winning nan 2022 WGA Award for Adapted Long Form.
