This sounds like it is going to be a good one!! ~ V

Forest Whitaker is going to pull double duty for MGM+.

The actor, who currently stars in the cable network’s Godfather of Harlem, has joined the cast of its suspense thriller Emperor of Ocean Park.

Based on author and law professor Stephen L. Carter’s novel, the series from writer and exec producer Sherman Payne (Shameless) is set in the world of politics and Ivy League academia and the beaches of Martha’s Vineyard.

MGM+ says the show revolves around Talcott Garland (Grantham Coleman, Lawmen: Bass Reeves), “an Ivy League law professor whose quiet life is shattered when his father, Judge Oliver Garland, dies of an apparent heart attack.

The nature of the judge’s death is questioned by Tal’s sister, Mariah (Tiffany Mack, Jessica Jones), a former journalist and inveterate conspiracy theorist, who believes that the judge, a failed Black nominee to the Supreme Court, met with foul play.”

Whitaker will play Judge Oliver Garland, who is described as the “patriarch of his family and a formidable figure in national politics and the judicial system. He is stern, intelligent, calculating, and proud.

As a Black man in America, navigating unwelcoming and often hostile environments, he has formed a hard exterior — that he’s come to rely on as a shield. He is a devoted father whose commitment to his family simultaneously bolsters and undercuts his deeply and rigidly held conservative principles.”