Written by Kris Shuman

“Reminiscent of Black Bird, Mare of Easttown, Ozark, and True Detective—with an existential grittiness that echoes the best of Nic Pizzolatto’s work.” —The Black List

Logline:

When a runaway son is lured back to his family’s crumbling timber empire after his father’s death, he uncovers a legacy built on blood and lies – where loyalty is a death sentence, and the truth could bury him next.

Synopsis:
Gray Harris never wanted to come back to Pine County—but his father’s death drags him home. Now, he finds himself heir to a vast timber empire and a community that remembers everything he tried to forget. As Gray reconnects with estranged family and uneasy allies, he’s pulled deeper into a tangled web of betrayal, buried crimes, and local myths that might be more real than he’s ready to believe.
The pilot of Revenance, What’s Buried Beneath the Pines is a Southern Gothic thriller that blends bloodlines and backroads, peeling back the rotting layers of a town that buries its sins deep.