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| Created by | Sarah Thorp |
| Showrunner | Sarah Thorp |
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| Composer | Jay Wadley |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of episodes | 10 |
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| Running time | 28-35 minutes |
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| Network | Apple TV+ |
| Release | October 25 (2024-10-25) – December 20, 2024 (2024-12-20) |
Before is an Americanpsychological thriller televisionminiseries created by Sarah Thorp, who also serves asshowrunner and is an executive producer, along withBilly Crystal,Adam Bernstein,Eric Roth, and Jet Wilkinson. It stars Billy Crystal as a child psychiatrist, and featuresJudith Light,Rosie Perez, andJacobi Jupe.[1]
Before premiered on October 25, 2024, onApple TV+.[2]
A recently widowed child psychiatrist named Eli meets with his next patient, Noah, who mysteriously shows up at his house and appears to know things about him. The child appears to have psychotic episodes that result in harm to himself or others, but the psychiatrist senses something in these episodes that appear to point to a "source" which the psychiatrist appears to relate to.
| No. | Title [3] | Directed by | Written by [4] | Original release date [5] |
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| 1 | "The Imposter" | Adam Bernstein | Sarah Thorp | October 25, 2024 (2024-10-25) |
| 2 | "The Scientist" | Jet Wilkinson | Sarah Thorp | October 25, 2024 (2024-10-25) |
| 3 | "The Liar" | Jet Wilkinson | Sarah Thorp | November 1, 2024 (2024-11-01) |
| 4 | "Symbols and Signs" | David Petrarca | Sarah Thorp | November 8, 2024 (2024-11-08) |
| 5 | "Folie à Deux" | David Petrarca | Emmy Grinwis | November 15, 2024 (2024-11-15) |
| 6 | "Fever Dream" | Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour | Desta Tedros Reff | November 22, 2024 (2024-11-22) |
| 7 | "The Power of Belief" | Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour | Howie Miller | November 27, 2024 (2024-11-27) |
| 8 | "When We Dead Awaken" | Jet Wilkinson | Joseph Sousa | December 6, 2024 (2024-12-06) |
| 9 | "And the Darkness Was Called Night" | Zetna Fuentes | Joseph Sousa & Audrey Rosenberg | December 13, 2024 (2024-12-13) |
| 10 | "Before" | Jet Wilkinson | Sarah Thorp | December 20, 2024 (2024-12-20) |
It was announced in June 2022 thatApple TV+ had ordered the series, whichBilly Crystal would star in andBarry Levinson would direct.[6] In December 2023,Judith Light joined the cast, withAdam Bernstein now set to direct the pilot episode, as Levinson had to exit the project.[7] In January 2024,Rosie Perez,Jacobi Jupe,Maria Dizzia, Ava Lalezarzadeh would be added to the main cast, withHope Davis joining in a recurring capacity.[8][9]
Filming had begun on the series under the nameWinston inNew Jersey by May 2023.[10] In June, it was announced it had entered an indefinite hiatus amidst the2023 Writers Guild of America strike.[11] Upon the strike's conclusion, the series resumed filming in December inMoonachie, New Jersey.[12] It filmed inHoboken, New Jersey, in January 2024,[13] and later inIndependence Township, New Jersey in March.[14] The series used de-aging technology from the artificial intelligence studio,Deep Voodoo.[15]
Thereview aggregator websiteRotten Tomatoes reported a 32% approval rating with an average rating of 5.2/10, based on 31 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "StarringBilly Crystal playing against type,Before initially intrigues but doesn't bring enough ideas or variety to sustain what comes after."[16]Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 46 out of 100 based on 20 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[17]
