Archive · 13 Sep 2026
Amy Ryan Joins Netflix’s The Retrievals Alongside Emilia Jones
Netflix is making a series called The Retrievals.
Amy Ryan and Emilia Jones will be in it.
The story is about people receiving IVF treatment.
They are forced to undergo egg retrieval surgery without proper anesthesia.
This happens after a nurse takes fentanyl, a powerful pain medicine.
Ryan plays the nurse, Carla Russo.
Jones plays Gabby Clemente, a bartender and student teacher affected by the surgery.
The patients then join together to challenge Yale University.
Amy Ryan will star alongside Emilia Jones in Netflix’s series The Retrievals.
The series is created and showrun by Molly Smith Metzler.
It follows IVF patients who unite against Yale University after painful procedures without anesthesia.
Amy Ryan will play nurse Carla Russo, who pleaded guilty to diverting fentanyl and diluting it with saline.
Emilia Jones will portray Gabby Clemente, whose life changes after a traumatic egg retrieval surgery.
- Who
- Actors Amy Ryan and Emilia Jones, creator Molly Smith Metzler, and IVF patients connected to Yale Fertility Center.
- What
- Netflix is developing The Retrievals, a series about IVF patients affected by surgeries performed without anesthesia after fentanyl was diverted.
- Where
- The story is connected to Yale Fertility Center in New Haven, Connecticut.
- Why
- The patients unite to challenge Yale University after a nurse diverted fentanyl and diluted it with saline.
- Series
- The Retrievals
- Platform
- Netflix
- Creator and showrunner
- Molly Smith Metzler
- Amy Ryan’s role
- Carla Russo, a veteran nurse at Yale Fertility Center
- Emilia Jones’s role
- Gabby Clemente, a New Haven bartender and student teacher
- Source material
- A New York Times and Serial Productions podcast hosted by Susan Burton
- Production companies
- LuckyChap and Quiet Coyote