At first listen, Carrie Coon’s latest role doesn’t seem out of place with the serious-minded characters she’s inhabited in the past, whether the police chief of a small Midwestern town in the television series Fargo, or a grief-stricken woman in The Leftovers who is coping with the mysterious disappearance of her husband and children.
In Motherhacker, a podcast that Gimlet Media will release in November, Coon plays a single mother struggling with financial insecurity and “flying by the seat of her pants”, as Coon puts it, when she becomes the victim of a phishing hack.
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