Jake Lacy played an entitled jerk with precision on HBO’s award-winning 2021 series “White Lotus.” Now he’s back embodying a man with far more complicated and questionable motives: Robert Berchtold, a neighbor and close friend of the Broberg family in the 1970s.
Berchtold, a sexual predator, not only kidnapped Broberg’s daughter Jan at age 12 but managed to do so again when she was 14. Over nine episodes in Peacock’s fictionalized and metro Atlanta-shot “A Friend of the Family,” this harrowing, often infuriating story unspools with a sense of empathy for the Broberg family while amplifying Berchtold’s moral abyss.
The first three episodes came out Thursday, with the next six each coming out weekly on the streaming service.
