Hulu is turning Aggie Blum Thompson's psychological thriller You Deserve to Know into a series, and it has cast Nina Dobrev and Paul Wesley in the leads. Dobrev plays Gwen Khoury, Wesley plays Scott Crowder, and Brian Tanen is writing the adaptation. A release date has not been announced yet.

What is You Deserve to Know about?

You Deserve to Know, the Aggie Blum Thompson novel being adapted by Hulu, follows three suburban couples who are not only neighbours but close friends. One of the husbands is found murdered after a Friday night dinner, and the investigation that follows pulls the tidy little community apart.

Buried secrets surface, trust collapses, and the friendships are pushed to breaking point. It is the oldest and most delicious question in suburban crime fiction: how well do you actually know the people three doors down?

Who is starring in the Hulu adaptation?

Nina Dobrev and Paul Wesley lead the Hulu adaptation of You Deserve to Know, with Dobrev cast as Gwen Khoury and Wesley as Scott Crowder.

The pairing is the part everyone will talk about first. Dobrev and Wesley starred together on The Vampire Diaries, and this is a reunion on screen for the two of them — this time with dinner parties and a murder investigation instead of fangs.

Who is making the series?

Brian Tanen is writing the adaptation of You Deserve to Know for Hulu. Tanen's previous credits include Grand Hotel and Love, Victor.

Three companies are producing: Unwell Productions, Kapital Entertainment and 20th Television. The series is classed as mystery, thriller and drama, which is about as accurate a description of a dead husband and six suspicious friends as you could ask for.

When can you watch You Deserve to Know?

No release date has been announced for Hulu's You Deserve to Know. The series will stream on Hulu when it arrives.

That makes this the ideal moment to read Aggie Blum Thompson's novel first, which is the correct order of operations and a position The Bookclub Boutique will defend at length. Knowing who did it before the trailer drops is its own small pleasure.

You Deserve to Know: the details

Title	You Deserve to Know
Author	Aggie Blum Thompson
Genre	Psychological thriller

Frequently asked questions

Who are the executive producers on You Deserve to Know?

Eight executive producers are attached to Hulu's You Deserve to Know: Alex Cooper, Aaron Kaplan, Matt Kaplan, Mina Lefevre, Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley, novelist Aggie Blum Thompson and writer Brian Tanen. Dobrev and Wesley are therefore producing the series as well as starring in it, and Thompson has a producing credit on the adaptation of her own novel.

Source

Based on material from Artsagewrld on Instagram, received November 3, 2026. Written up for The Bookclub Boutique.