Oscar Nominee Kerry Condon Teams Up With Maya Hawke for a Post–Stranger Things Netflix Series

Well, this is a bit of a TV casting shake-up worth talking about: Kerry Condon—yeah, the one who got the Oscar nod for The Banshees of Inisherin and just did Star Wars: Skeleton Crew—has signed on for Netflix’s brand new series The God of the Woods. You’ll see her sharing the screen with Maya Hawke, which is actually Hawke’s first major project at Netflix since Stranger Things wrapped. So if you’ve been wondering what the next real-deal thing for her would be, here you go.

What The God of the Woods Is Actually About

The show’s adapted from Liz Moore’s bestselling novel (same name), and if you were expecting another haunted summer camp story, well... kind of, but this one’s wrapped up in family secrets and messy privilege. The basics:

• The series is set in the Adirondacks, so, scenic but moody upstate New York.
• Plot: It’s all about the Van Laar clan—a wealthy family with enough skeletons in their woods to fill a few cabins. Their 13-year-old daughter, Barbara, vanishes from their summer camp. This isn’t the first storm cloud over the family; there’s an earlier tragedy that everyone’s either avoiding or whispering about.
• As the investigation picks up, old wounds come back, and it turns into a story about how the Van Laars’ fancy life and privilege are both a shield and a ticking time bomb.

The official angle from Netflix (and it’s a mouthful, so bear with me): The show looks at class tensions, generational drama, and what happens when long-stacked secrets fall apart. Expect plenty of privilege-related fallout and power abuse.

Who’s Playing Whom?

Kerry Condon is playing Alice Van Laar—she’s the mother of the missing girl, and let’s just say this isn’t a 'cool mom' type role. Alice is written as someone who’s already been hardened by grief from an earlier family disaster, plus she’s stuck in a loveless, hostile marriage. Then, boom: her daughter disappears and things get even messier.

Maya Hawke is on the other side, playing Judy Luptack, the investigator. The description calls her 'smart and quietly determined,' which I’m reading as: don’t expect her to kick down doors or deliver snappy detective dialogue, but she’s not some pushover either. Judy’s job is to piece together the mystery of Barbara’s disappearance and dig through all the Van Laars’ muddy backstory.

Behind the Scenes Notes

Here’s where things get a little interesting for those tracking the production pipeline:

The adaptation is being handled by Liz Hannah (Mindhunter, The Post) and Liz Moore herself—they’re both writing and executive producing. Neal H. Moritz and Pavun Shetty are executive producers on behalf of Original Film, and Sony Pictures Television is producing it. In short, it’s got some real weight behind it, not just another algorithm-driven Netflix one-off.

‘Hardened by the grief of a past family tragedy and trapped in a contemptuous marriage, Alice is forced to face the unimaginable when her 13-year-old daughter goes missing.’

To wrap it up: If you like generational drama with a side of scandal and a morally murky investigation in the woods, The God of the Woods is officially shaping up to be one to put on your Netflix watchlist.