Audra McDonald, Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale to star in Robert and Michelle King's coronavirus drama The Second Wave

Deadline

The six-episode Spectrum Originals series from The Good Fight creators "follows an unexpected, deadly second wave of the coronavirus outbreak in New York City," per Deadline. "It follows the lives of two neighbors, Rachel (McDonald) and Lily (Schilling), as they navigate life in quarantine in New York City. While Rachel juggles her many telemedicine clients as well as a shaky, passionless marriage, Lily is upstairs just trying to convince her Wall Street clientele that her very specific skillset is still just as valuable over video as it was in person. When an unexpected, deadly second wave of the virus arrives, we follow these two women as they face unprecedented times while still juggling their careers, their loved ones… and possibly…the end of the world? Pasquale plays Rachel’s (McDonald) husband, Dr. Zach, a top official at the CDC who is stuck between the medicine he knows and the politics thrust upon him."