What is Prime Video's 56 Days about?

* Warning: Contains spoilers for 56 Days*

Streaming giant Prime Video has launched a brand new crime thriller that's already being hailed as essential viewing - and it's ready to stream immediately.

56 Days charts the story of Oliver and Ciara who encounter each other by chance in a supermarket before developing feelings "fast and dangerously hard". However, circumstances quickly deteriorate as, 56 days afterwards, investigators arrive to discover an unidentified corpse.

Running across eight episodes, all instalments can be watched immediately on Prime Video, ideal for viewers keen to consume the entire series in one go. 56 Days also features a stellar ensemble including Dove Cameron as Ciara Wyse, Avan Jogia as Oliver Kennedy and Karla Souza as Lee Reardon.

With the new series launching on Prime Video today (February 18), here's everything you need to know about the crime thriller, reports the Mirror.

What is 56 Days about?

56 Days chronicles the gripping tale of couple Ciara and Oliver, but when an unidentified corpse is discovered in Oliver's flat, investigators begin examining the pair's fatal romance over the preceding 56 days.

Prime Video reveals: "56 Days follows Oliver and Ciara, who, after meeting randomly in a supermarket, fall for each other fast, and dangerously hard. Fifty-six days later, homicide investigators arrive at Oliver's apartment to find an unidentified body-brutally murdered and intentionally decomposed.

"Did he kill her? Did she kill him? Intercutting between an intense single day in the present investigation, and the twisted trajectory of the young lovers' affair in the past, the series is both a unique crime story and a riveting, sexy, psychological thriller."

Is 56 Days based on a book?

Indeed, 56 Days is adapted from Catherine Ryan Howard's best-selling novel of the same name. It was initially published in 2021 following a couple who moved in together just before Covid-19.

A book synopsis reads: "No one even knew they were together. Now one of them is dead."

56 Days ending explained

The series delivers abundant suspense and dramatic revelations as significant secrets emerge. The concluding episode, naturally, is where everything comes to light as Prime Video teases: "Karl and Lee put together some final pieces to truly understand everything about Oliver and Ciara's intense, charged and fatal love affair."

In essence, Ciara's true identity is Megan and her entire relationship with Oliver had been orchestrated after it emerged Oliver had drowned a boy named Paul before another boy, Shane, accepted responsibility before he was subsequently killed in prison. Megan and Shane were siblings with Megan assuming a fresh identity for truth and revenge.

But to whom did the body belong? It was in fact Dan, Oliver's previous therapist who met his end after he threatened to disclose the truth. Oliver and Megan subsequently disposed of the body and fled together, with the concluding scene depicting them on the beach with their child.

Will there be a second series?

A second series has not been announced as of yet, however, viewers are already voicing their predictions about potential plot developments should another series be commissioned.

56 Days is streaming now on Prime Video

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