PremiumBefore OTT release date: When, where to watch Billy Crystal-led psychological thriller
Before OTT release date: The 10-episode drama also stars Jacobi Jupe, Judith Light and Rosie Perez in pivotal characters
Last Updated: 07.23 PM, Oct 03, 2024
Billy Crystal sheds his funny bone for an upcoming psychological thriller series in which he is a child psychologist. The much-feted actor-comedian plays Eli, a child psychologist, whose latest ‘client’ is a young troubled boy, who has an eerie connection to the former.
Billy Crystal's psychological thriller Before coming to Apple TV+
The 10-episode drama, directed by Adam Bernstein, will premiere on October 25, Friday, on Apple TV+ with a 2 episode initial run, followed by weekly drops till December 20. Crystal is joined by Jacobi Jupe, Judith Light, Rosie Perez, Maria Dizzia and Ava Lalezarzadeh on the cast.
According to the official synopsis, Before has Crystal as Eli, a child psychiatrist who, after recently losing his wife, Lynn (Light), encounters a troubled young boy, Noah (Jupe), who seems to have a haunting connection to Eli’s past. As Eli attempts to help Noah, their mysterious bond deepens.
| TITLE | Before |
| DIRECTOR | Adam Bernstein |
| CAST | Billy Crystal, Jacobi Jupe, Judith Light |
| STREAMING PLATFORM | Apple TV+ |
| STREAMING DATE | October 25 onward |
In the trailer that the streamer released recently, Crystal, as Eli, is seen describing the moment his successful career of helping troubled children changed, as the day his wife died. Shortly after, young Noah turns up at his doorstep, and Eli finds out that the boy, whom his foster parents found unnerving, suffers from hallucinations and has been expelled from school repeatedly for violent outbursts.
Over time, Eli begins to think that Noah didn’t just randomly land at his door and that there was a reason the youngster found him. Noah, who gets mad at people who do bad things, then tells Eli, “You know what you did”, which then cuts to visuals of a lifeless Lynn in a bathtub. Did Eli have something to do with her death? Can he help little Noah?
Before joins a list of series that are coming to Apple TV+, including Disclaimer, and second seasons of Silo, Bad Sisters, Severance and Shrinking. Also on its list of upcoming title is a war drama called Blitz.