The Crown Star Erin Doherty Returns to TV in Chloe
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Erin Doherty–known for her role as Princess Anne in The Crown–is returning to TV. The young actress will star in Amazon Prime's upcoming series Chloe. A psychological thriller, the series has been described as “a mystery about obsession, deceit, identity, and grief.”
“It’s going to be an addictive, emotional rollercoaster of a show,” says executive producer Tally Garner. Color us intrigued. Here’s what we know so far.
Chloe was created by Sex Education director Alice Seabright.
Seabright will also serve as writer and director. “All these characters have been a dream to write, and it now feels like they’ve found their soulmates in our amazing cast,” she said in the show's announcement. “I can’t wait to start bringing the show to life with them.”
The cast features some of the UK’s rising stars.
The cast includes Erin Doherty (The Crown), Billy Howle (The Serpent), Pippa Bennett-Warner (Inspector Lewis, Doctor Who), and Jack Farthing (Poldark). Brandon Michael Hall (Search Party), Poppy Gilbert (Call the Midwife), Akshay Khanna (Grace), and Alexander Eliot will also appear in the series.
Doherty will play Becky, the lead role, while Gilbert plays the namesake Chloe.
The plot explores the dark potential of social media.
Living at home with her mother, Becky (Doherty) finds herself constantly comparing herself to the seemingly idyllic lives of the people on her Instagram feed–Chloe’s (Gilbert) account in particular. Per a description of the show, after Chloe suffers a shocking sudden death, “Becky’s need to find out how and why leads her to assume a new identity and engineer a ‘chance’ meeting with Chloe’s best friend, Livia (Bennett-Warner), and infiltrate Chloe’s group of close-knit friends.”
It continues: “Through her alter-ego Sasha, Becky becomes a powerful, transgressive heroine; a popular, well-connected ‘someone’ with a life, and loves, that are far more exciting and addictive that the ‘no one’ she is as Becky.”
In a recent interview with Vogue UK Doherty teased out the show's critique of social media. Chloe, she says, is "definitely pro friendships in the flesh. It really highlights the difference between people’s lives that they live on their phone and what they project versus who they are in person. I think it does a really good job of saying that these people become 3D when you actually know them. I’m not sure if it’s tearing down social media but it’s definitely saying, you can never know someone through their profile. That’s never a full-bodied representation of who this human being is. I think it’s brilliant at highlighting that."
It’s already airing in the UK.
Chloe is currently airing on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK and will eventually come to Amazon Prime worldwide.
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