Emilia Jones to Lead Netflix's 'The Retrievals'
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- Emilia Jones is set to headline The Retrievals, a Netflix series from Molly Smith Metzler inspired by Susan Burton's Peabody-winning New York Times podcast.
- The series follows an unlikely community of IVF patients who, upon discovering a nurse at their clinic stole vast amounts of fentanyl during their surgeries, band together to crusade against Yale University in a groundbreaking legal battle.
- Jones will play Gabby Clemente, a New Haven bartender and student teacher whose life is upended by her traumatic egg retrieval surgery, and who leads the effort to find other victims.
- Molly Smith Metzler is writer and showrunner, executive producing via her Quiet Coyote banner alongside her Maid and Sirens collaborators Colin McKenna and LuckyChap, with LuckyChap's Dani Gorin, Tom Ackerley, and Margot Robbie also serving as EPs.
- Lila Neugebauer, who directed one episode each of Maid and Sirens, will direct the pilot and executive produce.
- Additional executive producers include Caitlin Roper for The New York Times and podcast writer Susan Burton.
- The series marks Jones' return to Netflix, where she previously starred in Locke & Key; she is coming off a main role in HBO's Task and is currently in the film Tony.
Why it matters: The Retrievals gives Netflix a prestige adaptation rooted in a real scandal—a fentanyl theft at a Yale fertility clinic already chronicled in a Peabody-winning podcast—giving the series built-in narrative credibility. Metzler reuniting with her Maid collaborators and LuckyChap (Margot Robbie's banner) signals another female-led limited drama for the streamer, while Jones's casting leverages her post-Locke & Key visibility after HBO's Task.
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