A divorce trial proves to be more difficult than expected in new HBO Original series “War”.
Hailing from “Lupin” and “Hijack” creator George Kay, “War” is a “high-stakes, legal drama following the lives of London’s most powerful lawyers as firms Cathcarts & Sons and Taylor & Byrne clash over a headline-grabbing legal battle,” the official synopsis reads.
The anthology series’ first season — it has already been renewed for Season 2, which will focus on an explosive defamation case — follows the “divorce of British tech entrepreneur Morgan Henderson (Emmy nominee Dominic West) and international film star Carla Duval (BAFTA nominee Sienna Miller), as Cathcarts & Sons and Taylor & Byrne stop at nothing to secure victory for their clients,” the description continues.
Alongside Miller and West, the “War” Season 1 stars Phoebe Fox as Serena Byrne and James McArdle as Nicholas Taylor, partners in life and business at Taylor & Byrne; Archie Renaux as Jonathan “Johnny” Warren; as well asNina Sosanya as Beatrice “Queen Bea” Ubosi and Pip Torrens as St John Smallwood, their counterparts and fierce rivals at Cathcarts & Sons. Other cast members include Celia Imrie, Nick Mohammed, Emma Laird, Aran Murphy, Archie Panjabi, Adrian Scarborough, Shaheen Jafargholi, Akiya Henry, Honor Swinton Byrne, Miles Jupp, Kartanya Maynard, Alexandra Mardell, Dylan Edwards, Mark Quartley and Steve Furst.
Interested readers can stream “War” on HBO Max from Friday, October 2 and is also available on HBO.
