Peacock picks up crime drama Superfakes from Beef and Poker Face writer Alice Ju

Peacock is teaming back up with Poker Face and Beef writer Alice Ju—plus Benny and Josh Safdie—for a new crime drama that sounds like an anxiety attack just waiting to happen. Titled Superfakes, the show is being written and showrun by Ju, whose past credits are basically a greatest hits anthology of TV show's we've enjoyed over the past five years: Poker Face and Beef, which she wrote two and one episodes of, respectively, as well as Russian Doll and The Other Two. (If you're looking up Poker Face credits, we'll save you time and note Ju wrote the one that takes place at the Subway in New Mexico, and the one where Natasha Lyonne's Charlie befriends a special effects legend played by Nick Nolte.) The logline for her new show, which the Safdies are executive producing, sounds suitably tense: "Superfakes is a crime drama series that follows a small-time Chinatown luxury counterfeit dealer who enters a dangerous black market underworld in order to fund a life of suburban respectability for her family."

Given the Safdie connection, it's hard not to note that the premise bears at least some surface similarities to the brothers' 2019 cinematic panic bomb Uncut Gems, also about a dealer of luxury goods whose interactions with both his family, and the criminal underworld, do not go entirely to plan. The duo have been pushing further into TV production in recent years, most notably with The Curse, which Benny Safdie also wrote for and starred in.

Peacock gave Superfakes a series pick-up earlier today. No word yet on casting.