Matthew Rhys ( The Americans , Perry Mason ) has been tapped as a lead opposite Rachel Brosnahan and Jack Reynor in the upcoming second season of the Apple TV+ legal drama Presumed Innocent .

The second installment is inspired by Dissection of a Murder , the debut legal thriller novel by Jo Murray. It centers on an ambitious defense attorney (Brosnahan) who takes on a high-profile case. Rhys plays her husband, the prosecutor on the case; Reynor plays her client, the defendant.

Led by Jake Gyllenhaal, Season 1 was inspired by Scott Turow’s courtroom thriller of the same name. It tells the story of a horrific murder that upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorneys’ office when one of its own is suspected of the crime. The book was published in 1987 and was turned into a 1990 fea

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