A grieving father crosses into a hidden, magical version of New York to find the infant son taken from him, in this 2023 fantasy drama built around one family's unraveling.
What is The Changeling about?
Apollo Kagwa and his wife Emma settle into new parenthood in New York City, but the arrival of their son opens cracks neither of them expected. When the child disappears under circumstances that defy easy explanation, Apollo's search pulls him away from the city he thought he knew and into an alternate version of it, one where old folklore and modern grief sit side by side. Directed by Kelly Marcel, the series follows Apollo as ordinary landmarks give way to something stranger, forcing him to question his marriage, his own history, and what actually happened to Emma in the days before the disappearance. Lakeith Stanfield anchors the show as Apollo, with Clark Backo as Emma and Adina Porter, Samuel T. Herring, Alexis Louder, Jared Abrahamson, Malcolm Barrett and Amirah Vann rounding out a cast built for a story that keeps shifting its own rules.
About the cast
Stanfield leads as a father whose search becomes the spine of the show, opposite Backo as the wife whose choices are never quite what they first appear. Porter, Herring, Louder, Abrahamson, Barrett and Vann fill out a supporting ensemble spread across the show's blend of city drama and fable.
Context & significance
The series folds fairy-tale structure into a contemporary setting, using the fantastical elements to sit alongside real anxieties about parenthood, marriage and loss rather than replacing them outright. At 60 minutes an episode, it has room to let both registers breathe, shifting between grounded scenes of a marriage under strain and detours into the hidden, older city Apollo keeps stumbling into.
Watching The Changeling on Ktime
The Changeling streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so viewers can follow Apollo's search in either language. As with the rest of the catalogue, watching only requires a free K-Time account login, and the Farsi-language interface makes browsing straightforward for Persian-speaking audiences.