Mary-Louise Parker And Peter Sarsgaard Join NBC's The Slap — cinemablend.com

Way back in January of this year, NBC jumped on the trend of announcing a couple of straight-to-series pick-ups. The big news that day was the network’s Oz-based Emerald City series. Luckily, in the story we also included news about The Slap, an 8-episode miniseries described as a “complex drama,” which is fascinating considering the central plotline on the show follows the relatively simple idea of a man slapping another person’s kid who happens to be misbehaving. It’s the aftermath that will clearly be messy, with a lawsuit igniting and plenty of family drama to boot. Now, with a few big names signed on, the promising premise is becoming an even more attractive pick-up for NBC.

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