As The CW puts it, “the queen is back.” Next month, Leighton Meester will make her return to The CW network as Lou Hickman, part of a brother-sister detective duo, in the upcoming dramedy Good Cop/Bad Cop.
Meester previously starred in a CW show from 2007 to 2012, where she portrayed the queen of the Upper East Side, Blair Waldorf, in Gossip Girl.
According to The CW, in Good Cop/Bad Cop, Meester and Luke Cook, who plays her younger brother, will take on the role of detectives working in a small town.
They’ll navigate through quirky locals, limited resources, their strained relationship, and the presence of their father, who serves as the police chief. navigate through quirky
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In an interview posted on The CW’s Instagram page, Meester shared her excitement about returning to work with the network. “I feel like I’ve had a lot of experience working with them for many years in the past and they know what they are doing,” she said.
She also complimented The CW for having a “really good eye for finding that mixture of campy comedy drama that I think we are trying to achieve” with her new show.
Leighton Meester (Photo: Instagram)
John Quaintance, the creator and showrunner of Good Cop/Bad Cop, explained to Parade that the show sits “somewhere between Fargo and the Knives Out films, with the joke count and fast banter of Moonlighting.”
He continued, “This cast has delivered on every front, with compelling twisty romances and hard-earned moments of family healing and connection that are genuinely moving.” Quaintance also mentioned that he has “never had more fun working on anything.”
Making a guest appearance on the show is Meester’s real-life husband, Adam Brody, with whom she shares two children.
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While on the red carpet at the Golden Globes this month, Meester and Brody opened up about how often they talk about working together, admitting that the topic “comes up a lot.”
“Almost everything we do, they are like, ‘Would your husband or wife want to be in this as well?’ So we get a lot of opportunities,” Brody explained.
“We almost have to resist more than we have to seek it out,” Meester added.
Finally, Meester mentioned that she already has a good idea for the kind of project she’d like to collaborate on with her husband, though she teased that “it’s top secret.”
