Grief brings Captain Charles Boone and his three children back to the family estate he thought he had left behind for good. What waits inside Chapelwaite is a family history nobody warned him about.

What is Chapelwaite about?

After his wife dies at sea, Charles Boone moves his children to Preacher's Corners, a quiet Maine town that turns out to be anything but restful. The ancestral house carries decades of buried history tied to the Boone name, and the locals treat the family's return with a wariness that has nothing to do with ordinary small-town suspicion. As strange occurrences pile up around the property, Charles has to sort fact from rumor while raising three grieving children largely on his own. The show leans into slow-building dread rather than jump scares, letting the town's silence and the house's history do most of the unsettling work. Family secrets surface gradually, tying the present-day Boones to relatives whose choices still shape how the town sees them.

About the cast

Adrien Brody carries the role of Charles Boone, with Emily Hampshire, Jennifer Ens, Sirena Gulamgaus, and Ian Ho making up the rest of the household and its immediate circle. The younger cast members give the series its family core, while the show splits its attention between their adjustment to a new home and the darker currents running underneath it.

Context & significance

Stephen King is credited as director on this drama-horror-mystery series, a genre combination that leans more on atmosphere and inherited trauma than on outright scares. Set in the 1850s, the period setting matters: a family arriving by ship into a closed, insular New England town, with limited communication and no easy way to leave, raises the stakes of whatever the Boones are walking into. The 50-minute episodes give the mystery room to unfold gradually rather than resolve it in a single sitting.

Watching Chapelwaite on Ktime

Chapelwaite is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, letting Farsi-speaking viewers follow the slow reveal of the Boone family history without losing the dialogue's tone. A free K-Time account login is all that's needed to start watching, and the platform's Farsi interface keeps navigation simple for viewers new to the service.