Director: Jonathan Brough
Cast: Kristina Bogic, Morgana O'Reilly, Rudi Dharmalingam, Chloe Brink, Saiesha Sundaralingam
Playing Gracie Darling is a 2025 Australian drama-mystery-thriller series directed by Jonathan Brough, following a woman whose childhood trauma resurfaces when a dangerous game among local kids echoes the night her best friend disappeared decades earlier.
What is Playing Gracie Darling about?
Joni has carried the weight of a childhood mystery for twenty-seven years — the night her closest friend Gracie vanished without explanation during a séance at age fourteen. The disappearance left no answers, only a wound that never properly healed. Then a group of neighborhood children begins staging a disturbing reenactment of that same event, treating the old story like a dare. When one of those children goes missing, the past stops being history. Joni is pulled back into the darkness she has spent her adult life avoiding, forced to examine her own memories of that fateful night — memories she may have buried for reasons she does not fully understand.
Cast & crew
Jonathan Brough directs, bringing taut pacing to the series' slow-burn mystery format. Kristina Bogic leads as Joni, anchoring the emotional core of the show. The supporting ensemble includes Morgana O'Reilly, Rudi Dharmalingam, Chloe Brink, Saiesha Sundaralingam, Ariel Donoghue, Celia Pacquola, and Annie Maynard — a diverse cast that lends the story an authentic sense of community and dread.
Context & significance
For Persian-speaking viewers and the Iranian diaspora, Playing Gracie Darling offers the kind of atmospheric, slow-build thriller that rewards patience and rewards emotional investment. The series centers on themes many diaspora audiences know intimately — unresolved loss, the weight of the past on the present, and the way childhood events shape adult identity in ways that are never straightforward. The Australian setting gives the story a fresh cultural texture, while the mystery structure keeps every episode propulsive. The series is available on K-Time with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, making it fully accessible whether you prefer to watch in your native language or follow along with the original audio.
Where & how to watch
Playing Gracie Darling is available on K-Time with Persian dub and Persian subtitles. Watch on your browser, TV, or phone with no VPN needed and no geo-blocking. Start watching today — cancel anytime.