Playing Gracie Darling
What’s it rated? TV-MA
When? 2025 to present
Where’s it showing? Neflix
Child psychologist Joni (Morgana O’Reilly) is mother to teenager, Mina (Chloe Brink), but when Joni was 14, her best friend, Gracie Darling (Kristina Bogic), disappeared under mysterious circumstances following a Ouija board session in a cabin in the woods.
Joni can’t help but get pulled back into the mystery when she learns that kids have been back out to the cabin calling on spirits and that another young Darling child is missing. To find answers for the present, she must dive back into the past and learn once and for all what happened to the friend she lost all those years ago.
Set in the atmospheric and beautiful New South Wales’ Hawkesbury River region, this dark mystery unfolds around you and keeps its secrets close to the vest from beginning to end.
O’Reilly’s a fantastic lead—her Joni a measured and steadfast mother determined to keep the fate of other children safe from whatever forces took Gracie away all those years ago. However, mind games can’t help but come into play, and Joni soon realizes that her experiences may be due to forces that she herself could have controlled. It’s a gripping series, and a very bingeable one. (six 42- to 43-min. episodes)
—Anna Starkey
This article appears in February 19 – February 26, 2026.