But bizarrely, Happy Face, the tedious new true-crime thriller on Paramount+, still tries to moralize about the rise of true crime. Happy Face presents a heavily fictionalized version of a real ...

The three episodes that are available for streaming on Paramount+ bring the viewers up to the reality of Keith Hunter Jesperson, otherwise known as the Happy Face killer, through ...

Annaleigh Ashford plays a TV makeup artist whose dad is notorious serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson in the eight-episode season.

When last we saw Melissa, she had just discovered that an innocent man named Elijah was about to be executed for a murder her father Keith Jesperson (AKA The Happy Face Killer) had most likely ...

Dennis Quaid and Annaleigh Ashford star in Paramount+ true crime series "Happy Face." See who else is in the cast and who they play.

Happy Face, a new true crime thriller, may be the seventh most-watched show on Paramount+ in the past week, but it’s failing to leave audiences with a, erm, happy face. Despite being based on Melissa ...

That’s the premise of the new Paramount+ thriller Happy Face. Opening Shot: A closeup of a woman putting on makeup in the morning. The Gist: As Melissa Reed (Annaleigh Ashford) starts her day ...

Paramount’s Happy Face, premiering March 20, 2025, is based on the real-life story of Keith Hunter Jesperson, a serial killer known as the Happy Face Killer, and his daughter, Melissa G.

Perhaps as a result, “Happy Face” lacks the nimble, playful, ever-shifting tone that generally marks a Kings show, even one that deals with serial murder. (Producing director Michael Showalter ...

Paramount Plus' selection of original shows is expanding with Happy Face -- an eight-episode crime series starring Annaleigh Ashford and Dennis Quaid. According to a synopsis, the drama "is ...

Keith Hunter Jesperson, who is infamously known as The Happy Face Killer, is confirmed to have killed at least eight women across California, Florida, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming between 1990 ...