- Dennis Quaid plays The Happy Face Killer in a new series
- It will be presented on Paramount more on March 20
- The series is adapted from a podcast and an autobiography written by the killer’s daughter, Melissa Moore
Paramount more has a lot of great true crime and after seeing the new trailer for Happy face, It has the potential to add another to our list of the best paramount programs more. I am so excited to broadcast this series, especially since he has the talented Dennis Quaid in the holder of the Happy Face Killer. We have seen it recently The substanceThat we crowned the best body horror of 2024, and which was recently nominated for the best film 2025, so we know that he has a talent for playing a more scary role.
While real men in powerful positions inspired his performance The substanceThis time, Quaid enters the place of a very specific person: Keith Hunter Jesperson, a serial killer who has become known to send letters featuring smiling faces to the authorities, hence his name. The series follows her crimes as well as her daughter, Melissa, who ended up taking in the middle of all this.
Take a look at the trailer before its release on March 20.
What do we know about the happy face?
Annaleigh Ashford plays alongside Dennis Quaid in the role of Melissa Moore, the killer’s daughter, so the series will focus mainly on these two roles. The inspiration of the series came from the Podcast True-Crime Iheartpodcasts Happy face by Moore, as well as his autobiography Broken silenceCo-written with Mr. Bridget Cook. So, a large part of this came from the equipment she produced herself, giving viewers an overview of what happened.
The official tease synopsis: “After contactless decades, he finally finds a way to force himself in his daughter’s life. In a race against the stopwatch, Melissa must know if an innocent man will be put to death for a crime that His father committed.