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The series is based on the real life of Melissa Moore, daughter of the Happy Face Killer Keith Jesperson, adapting her hit podcast Happy Face and her memoir Shattered Silence; Moore served as a producer to keep the story tied to her own experience.
It was developed by Jennifer Cacicio alongside Robert and Michelle King, and Dennis Quaid underwent a notable physical transformation to disappear into the role of Jesperson.
Filmed largely in Vancouver in 2024, Happy Face drew strong notices for Annaleigh Ashford and Quaid but was cancelled by Paramount+ after a single season.
Happy Face is a Paramount+ true-crime drama created by Jennifer Cacicio and developed with Robert and Michelle King, the team behind The Good Wife and Evil. It adapts the podcast and memoir of Melissa Moore, the daughter of Keith Hunter Jesperson, the so-called Happy Face Killer, who murdered at least eight people in the early 1990s and taunted authorities with smiley-face-signed letters.
Annaleigh Ashford stars as Melissa, who has spent her adult life hiding her connection to her incarcerated father, played with unnerving control by Dennis Quaid. When Jesperson resurfaces claiming responsibility for an unsolved murder, Melissa is drawn back into his orbit and into a true-crime investigation that forces her to weigh a possibly innocent man's fate against her father's manipulations. James Wolk, Tamera Tomakili and David Harewood co-star.
The eight-episode series aired in the spring of 2025 and drew praise for its central performances even as critics were divided on its tone, which balanced domestic drama against serial-killer procedural. Grounded in Moore's real efforts to reckon with her father's crimes, Happy Face offers a victim-and-family-centered angle on a genre often fixated on its killers. It streams on Paramount+.
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