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Playing Gracie Darling

A Curio Pictures production for Paramount+

Creator: Miranda Nation
Executive Producers: Jo Porter, Rachel Gardner, Sophia Mogford, Miranda Nation
Writers: Miranda Nation, Anya Beyersdorf
Director: Jonathan Brough

Released: August 14, 2025 (Paramount+)

When Joni was fourteen, her best friend Gracie Darling disappeared during a séance. Twenty-seven years later, local teens still get their kicks ‘Playing Gracie Darling,’ a spooky game named after the girl who vanished. But when another young girl disappears under eerily similar circumstances, Joni, now a child psychologist, is forced to confront her past and the secrets that never stayed buried. (6x43min)