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‘Completely happy Face’ Sequence Launch Date: About Dennis Quaid’s Sequence

March 19, 2025

Within the upcoming Paramount+ suspense sequence, Dennis Quaid performs Nineties serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson, in any other case chillingly referred to as the “Completely happy Face Killer.” The veteran actor, who lately co-starred with Demi Moore in The Substance, stars alongside Annaleigh Ashford as his daughter, Melissa G. Moore and a lately launched trailer gave viewers a peek into what the suspenseful eight-episode drama will entail.

Learn on to seek out out when you’ll be able to watch Completely happy Face, and what else to know forward of the sequence debut.

What’s ‘Completely happy Face’ About?

The sequence relies on the actual case of Keith Hunter Jesperson, referred to as the Completely happy Face Killer. The case dates again to the Nineties when Jesperson, who’s now serving a life sentence at Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem, murdered a number of ladies. He was arrested in 1995 and earned his moniker for drawing a smiley face in letters he despatched to officers.

Quaid, who will painting the Completely happy Face Killer on this sequence, instructed The New York Publish, “Serial killers are very straightforward to play.” He added, “As a result of they actually sort of don’t have any emotion.”

When does the ‘Completely happy Face’ Sequence Debut?

Completely happy Face is impressed by a real crime podcast of the identical title, chronicling the experiences of Melissa, now in maturity, as she makes an attempt to unravel and settle for the influence her father’s crimes (a minimum of eight murders over 5 years within the 90s) have had. “Completely happy Face follows Melissa (Annaleigh Ashford) and her incarcerated father, referred to as the ‘Completely happy Face Killer’ (Dennis Quaid),” an official logline reads. “After a long time of no contact, he lastly finds a approach to power himself again into his daughter’s life. In a race in opposition to the clock, Melissa should discover out if an harmless man goes to be put to dying for against the law her father dedicated. All through, she discovers the influence her father had on his victims’ households and should face a reckoning of her personal id.”

Melissa herself has written at size about her father’s crimes, most notably in her 2015 e book, Shattered Silence: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer’s Daughter. “It was like there was one other Keith Jesperson,” she wrote of discovering her father’s crime as a young person in a 2014 essay, in accordance with BBC Information. “I had caught glimpses of this different man, however I additionally remembered when my dad got here residence from long-haul truck drives he could be so doting and sort. He appeared like such dad at instances. Then once more, he had mentioned some very unusual issues over time. ‘You recognize I drove previous the Oregon State Penitentiary, and I honked my horn,’ he instructed me on the telephone one time. ‘I mentioned: ‘Sometime I’m gonna be there. However not but!’”