Tom Bateman and Liana Liberato star as Matt and Tory in Based on a True Story. The second season will premiere Thursday, November 21 on Peacock.

Season two finds new parents Ava and Nathan Bartlett three months into parenthood. Focused on taking care of her family, Ava is determined to resist her true crime obsession and return to work as a real estate agent while Nathan trains private tennis clients. But a series of new murders pulls her back in – is Matt behind the slayings? Is Tory, now entangled in a relationship with Matt, in danger? For a while, life is good — Ava’s TikTok habit and her new friend Drew provide a welcome distraction, and Nathan’s all in on reigniting his tennis career as well as his friendship with Matt — until danger comes knocking, literally.

“The aspect to explore that I found the most interesting was the kind of us against them. I love that for a lot of it, you’ve got Kaley and Chris’ characters, and our characters were so, as a team, we’re such a tight unit, which if you think about it, they’re not a very great married couple. I know they touch in and out, but a lot of it’s dysfunctional. It’s not a particularly healthy [relationship], you don’t aspire to be that couple. But actually, what we’re doing, even though the stakes are so crazy and out there, for us to sort of be in it together, I found it quite fun to almost antagonize them and annoy them with it,” Bateman expressed.

“We have a very good dynamic and friendship,” Liberato added. “We had a great time filming. I like Tory and Matt. I think that they have an interesting dynamic, and both of them have reasons for being in the relationship, and it’s fun to see. I feel like that happens in real life, too, sometimes. You see a couple, and you’re like, ‘How is that gonna work?’ And then, somehow it does, and I think that’s sort of them in this show.”

We discussed getting to explore the relationship between their characters, the fun of working together, and what they enjoy about the dark comedy genre.

Watch my interview below: