Andrij Parekh to Direct Netflix's 'The Retrievals' Series
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- Andrij Parekh will direct two episodes of Netflix's 'The Retrievals' and serve as cinematographer on the first episode, with the series scheduled to shoot this fall.
- Molly Smith Metzler, the Emmy-nominated creator of 'Sirens' and 'Maid,' writes and executive produces the series adapting Susan Burton's hit podcast.
- The podcast-turned-series chronicles one woman's crusade against a fertility center that performed procedures on her and almost 100 other women without anesthesia.
- Parekh revealed the project at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival during a streaming panel alongside 'Bad Sisters' creator Sharon Horgan.
- Horgan signed a two-year first-look deal with HBO after her success at Apple TV, with her first project 'Youth' drawing on her experience as 'a woman of a certain age' caring for aging parents and reluctant-to-leave children.
- Both creators expressed concern about the impending Paramount-Warner Bros. merger, with Parekh saying he hopes 'they have the wisdom to leave it alone' and Horgan warning that interfering with HBO 'would be kind of crazy.'
Why it matters: Parekh's involvement brings 'Succession'-caliber craft to a true-crime medical scandal adaptation, part of Netflix's established pipeline of prestige podcast-to-series projects. The panel also surfaced rare public anxiety from top creators about the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger, with Horgan's first-look deal at HBO now sitting inside a company awaiting a major consolidation.
