EXCLUSIVE: After two very successful back-to-back Netflix limited series, Maid and Sirens, Molly Smith Metzler is looking to extend her streak with The Retrievals. The streamer has greenlighted the new series from Metzler, who serves as writer, executive producer and showrunner, and her Maid and Sirens collaborators, writer-producer Colin McKenna with LuckyChap. The Retrievals is currently designated as a drama, it is yet unclear whether it will be a limited series like Metzler’s previous Netflix hits. It stems from Metzler’s overall deal with Netflix.

After basing Maid on a memoir and Sirens on a play, Metzler is drawing upon a different kind of source material for The Retrievals — it is an adaptation of the Peabody Award-winning podcast of the same name by Susan Burton from Serial Productions and The New York Times.

Inspired by the podcast, The Retrievals follows one woman’s crusade against Yale Fertility Center after she (and almost 100 other women) were operated on without anesthesia during IVF egg retrieval procedures — because a nurse stole their fentanyl. A powerful and surprisingly funny story about an unlikely community that dares to take on one of the largest institutions in the nation.

Metzler executive produces alongside Margot Robbie and Tom Ackerley’s LuckyChap, McKenna, Caitlin Roper for The New York Times, and Burton.

Both Maid and Sirens have been top performers for Netflix. The 2021 Maid spent a staggering 14 weeks in Netflix’s weekly English Top 10, including a 2023 reentry amid surge in popularity on TikTok, and and also spent some time on Netflix’s Top 10 Most Popular List. The 2025 Sirens was in the Top 10 for eight weeks, including multiple weeks at No.1. Both series also earned multiple Emmy nominations, with Maid winning the 2022 WGA Award for Adapted Long Form.