{"id":547896,"date":"2026-07-28T13:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/547896\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T13:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:22:13","slug":"possession-is-the-pacy-sky-thriller-to-watch-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/547896\/","title":{"rendered":"Possession is the pacy Sky thriller to watch this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the synopsis: \u201cClaudia (Mbatha-Raw), an ambitious young biracial lawyer, travels to Jamaica to challenge an inheritance claim made by a local man, Cudjoe East (Sheldon Shepherd), against Oliver Connaught (Jonny Lee Miller), a wealthy white aristocrat. But the case takes an unsettling turn when Claudia discovers that the disputed estate is the very place that has haunted her nightmares: Hope Hill, the Connaught family\u2019s former plantation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Claudia and Oliver dig deeper, they uncover a disturbing link between the plantation\u2019s brutal past and the injustices still shaping the present.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While a release date is to be confirmed, we can expect to watch this five-part limited series through our fingertips as the genre of supernatural thriller meets the real-world horrors of colonialism.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the synopsis: \u201cClaudia (Mbatha-Raw), an ambitious young biracial lawyer, travels to Jamaica to challenge an inheritance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-547896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}