A new Shonda Rhimes series is set to premiere this March

Shonda Rhimes, a member of the Television Hall of Fame, stands behind quite a few blockbuster TV series, from Grey’s Anatomy to Scandal.

Now, Rhimes and former Scandal writer and producer Paul William Davies have prepared another serial treat for Netflix viewers - In The Residence, a whodunnit mystery thriller with a humorous twist is also set in The White House and is set to premiere on Netflix on March 20, 2025.

The series stars Uzo Aduba, who Netflix viewers might be familiar with from the Netflix opioid epidemic limited series Painkiller (2023) and long-running prison series Orange Is the New Black.

Shonda Rimes fans should be extremely excited about upcoming Netflix series

Aduba plays Cordelia Cupp, the detective who investigates a sudden murder case within the White House Walls. Basing his story here on a classic Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant film Charade, Davies' script complicates Cupp's case with a multitude of political tensions, hidden secrets, and lurking dangers.

As Davies explains to Netflix's Tudum, “The Residence is honestly a lot of things. It’s funny, it’s suspenseful, it’s clever, it’s totally farcical in places, it’s genuinely romantic in others.”

Along with Aduba, there is a wide net of cast characters that includes some well-known names - Randall Park, Giancarlo Esposito, Susan Kelechi Watson, Jane Curtin, Jason Lee, Ken Marino, Al Mitchell, Edwina Findley, and many more (including a pop star).

Aduba herself, in some ways, links this series to Orange Is the New Black: “The Residence is a different take and spin on the house that we all know — it’s a peek inside a world that we don’t often get to see. The show begs the question, ‘Who runs the house?’ And the answer is not what we think it is.”

We’ll find out what Daviews and Aduba are talking about when the series premieres.

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