Fool Me Once is a top 2016 thriller novel by Harlan Coben.

The Netflix TV series was adapted from this novel.

Fool Me Once premiered on Netflix on 1 January 2024.

Fool Me Once was directed by David Moore and Nimer Rashed.

Fool Me Once Season 1 had 8 episodes.

Coben, who created the series, was an executive producer on the show.

Danny Brocklehurst was head writer and executive producer, and Nicola Shindler and Richard Fee were also executive producers via Quay Street Productions.

Michelle Keegan played Tina McIntyre in Coronation Street between 2008 and 2014.

Natalie Anderson played Alicia Gallagher / Metcalfe in Emmerdale between 2010 and 2015.

Judith Burkett was played by Joanne Lumley who starred in Ab Fab between 1992 and 2012.

Claire had three children - Louis, Abby and Daniel.

The nannycam was hidden inside a digital photo frame.

The Burkett family home is the same house used in Peaky Blinders as Tommy Shelby's house.

Filming of Fool Me Once took place in and around Manchester, England.

Fool Me Once episode 1 starts with a flashback to 1996, where a group of high school students are doing a ritual of some kind.

Joe's mother, Judith Berkett, invited the detective in charge of his case to the funeral.

Izzy pepper sprayed Maya in the face in order to escape Maya.

Detective Kierce saved his detective partner's number in his phone contacts as "The Child."

The Burkett family business was called Burkett Global Enterprises.

Joe and Claire worked together at Joe's family business where Claire worked as a pharmaceutical scientist.

When Claire charged the burner phone she found 16 calls all from the same number.

She then googled this number and found out it's for Player One Arcade Club.

Joe and Maya met at a Charity Gala.

Claire's childen, Abby and Daniel, discovered an old camera with undeveloped film in it.

After they had the photographs developed, they discovered a photograph of Claire pregnant in 2003, years before they were born.

Maya learned from Corey the Whistleblower that the Burketts have been paying someone called Tommy Dark £9000 a month for the last 26 years.

'Joe' was wearing a green shirt in the nannycam video footage.

Phil Dawson, the football coach, was the registered keeper of the motorbike?

Abby and Daniel found out for sure that they had a secret sibling through Claire's profile on a DNA site.

Abbey later used this DNA site to make contact with their secret brother.

When Claire visited Joe's old school she met the headmaster.

There we learned what happened that fateful day in 1996 and that Claire was investigating the death of a student named Theo Mora.

Theo and Joe were friends, and Theo had died due to alcohol poisoning.

When Maya and Corey arrive at Tommy Dakr's storage unit they found Tommy’s body stashed in a freezer.

The boys attended Franklin Biddle Academy.

Emmett J. Scanlan played Brendan Brady in Hollyoaks between 2010 and 2013.

After Kierce realised his blackouts had been caused by the Burkett drugs, he also realised that he has been hallucinating Nicole all this time. She was actually his dead fiancée.

In episode 7, Maya tracked down Izzu and her boyfriend Luca and heldthem at gunpoint. They admit that they deepfaked the video.

The other boys wanted to stop but Joe kept pouring alcohol down Theo's throat, resulding in his death from alchol poisoning.

Joe pushed Andrew off the boat.

Joe killed Claire after she had found out his secrets.

Genuine shocker... Maya killed Joe! Did you see that coming?

Joe the Killler... what a surprise!

Joe's brother Neil shot and killed Maya.

Eddie raised Lily after Maya's death, which is what Maya had wanted.

Sami and Molly had a son together, who in the end flash-forward scene Sami says is now taller than him.

Fool Me Once was the third time Richard Armitage stars in a Netflix series based on a book by Harlan Coben.

First was as Adam Price in The Stranger (2020), the second as Ray Levine in Stay Close (2022) and in this third (2023) as Joe Burkett.