Actor Aidy Bryant is set to star in streaming platform Peacock's upcoming series Lonely Hearts Club, to be executive produced by filmmaker Ari Aster. According to entertainment news outlet Variety, the dramedy thriller series is based on an episode of Ashley Flowers' Crime Junkie podcast entitled Infamous: The Lonely Hearts Killers. Blade: True Detective Creator Nic Pizzolatto Comes Onboard As Writer for Mahershala Ali’s Marvel Reboot Film.

Set in the late 1940s, Lonely Hearts Club is described as a darkly comedic true crime thriller about a lonely woman who falls in love with a dim but handsome con man. Together they form an unlikely Loser-Bonnie-and-Clyde-style partnership that ends in lies, murder and the electric chair, the official plotline reads. Tom Cruise, Winnie the Pooh and Nicole Scherzinger to Have Their Brush with Royalty Again at King Charles III’s Coronation.

Bryant will also serve as writer and executive producer on the show along with Rob Klein. Ashley Flowers and Kevin Mills are executive producing for Crime Junkies, while Aster, Lars Knudsen and Emily Hildner are executive producers under the Square Peg banner. The show hails from Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.