Archive · 27 Aug 2026
Winslet and Peake Join Netflix’s Five-Part Vengeance Drama
Netflix is making a new five-part show called The Unheard.
Kate Winslet and Maxine Peake will play the main characters.
The story is about two sisters who run away after a revenge plan goes wrong.
People chase them as they try to escape.
The show will explore why they committed the reckless act.
It will also ask whether they ever planned to get away with it.
Jack Thorne, who worked on Adolescence, wrote the series.
Mounia Akl will direct it, and filming is expected to start next year.
Kate Winslet and Maxine Peake will star in Netflix’s five-episode limited series The Unheard.
The series comes from Adolescence writer Jack Thorne and producers at Warp Films, Matriarch Productions, and Plan B.
Thelma & Louise-style drama follows two sisters who go on the run after an act of vengeance goes wrong.
Mounia Akl will direct, with Winslet also serving as an executive producer.
Netflix announced the series at the Edinburgh TV Festival, and filming is scheduled to begin next year.
- Who
- Kate Winslet and Maxine Peake will star, with Jack Thorne as writer and Mounia Akl as director.
- What
- The Unheard is a five-episode Netflix limited series about two sisters fleeing after an act of vengeance goes wrong.
- When
- Netflix announced the series at the Edinburgh TV Festival; filming is scheduled to begin next year.
- Where
- The series will be released on Netflix, and its announcement took place at the Edinburgh TV Festival.
- Why
- The story examines what drives the sisters’ reckless act, their attempt to escape, and the consequences of taking justice into their own hands.
- Title
- The Unheard
- Format
- Five-episode limited series
- Platform
- Netflix
- Stars
- Kate Winslet and Maxine Peake
- Writer
- Jack Thorne
- Director
- Mounia Akl
- Production companies
- Warp Films, Matriarch Productions, and Plan B
- Filming
- Scheduled to begin next year
