Director: Alethea Jones, Shana Stein, Lauren Wolkstein
Cast: Dove Cameron, Avan Jogia, Dorian Missick, Karla Souza
56 Days is a 2026 American-Canadian crime drama series directed by Alethea Jones, Shana Stein, and Lauren Wolkstein, following a couple whose whirlwind romance becomes the center of a brutal murder investigation — each episode peeling back another layer of who these two people really are.
What is 56 Days about?
Oliver and Ciara cross paths in the most ordinary of settings — a supermarket aisle — and what begins as a flicker of attraction quickly spirals into an all-consuming relationship. They shelter together, shut the outside world out, and build something that feels both urgent and fragile. Then, fifty-six days after that first meeting, detectives are called to a scene no one can easily explain. A body has been found, and the investigation circles back to this couple, their private history, and everything they may have been hiding from each other and from the world. The series unfolds across two timelines — the romance as it blossomed and the investigation as it closes in — forcing the audience to constantly revise what they think they know.
Cast & crew
Dove Cameron leads the series as Ciara, bringing intensity and emotional ambiguity to a role that demands both vulnerability and guarded restraint. Avan Jogia plays Oliver, grounding the romantic half of the story. Dorian Missick appears as part of the investigative thread, while Karla Souza adds further dramatic weight to the ensemble. All four are working from briefs drawn from the source novel.
Context & significance
For Persian-speaking viewers in the diaspora, 56 Days sits squarely in the tradition of psychological crime dramas that pair a doomed or complicated romance with a police procedural frame — a genre that has found passionate audiences from Tehran to Toronto. The dual-timeline structure, which toggles between intimacy and interrogation, rewards patient viewers who enjoy piecing together what really happened. The series is available on K-Time with Persian subtitles, making every line of dialogue and every reveal fully accessible without language being a barrier. Its fifty-minute episodes fit naturally into an evening watch session, and the compact arc of six days of a relationship told over a full season makes binge-watching feel purposeful rather than compulsive.
Where & how to watch
56 Days is available on K-Time with Persian subtitles. Watch on the web, on your TV, or on your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, no extra download required. Start watching anytime and cancel anytime with no hassle.