‘Based on a True Story’s’ Kaley Cuoco, Chris Messina Break Down the Bloody Season Finale, Season 2 Ideas

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Karl Cook is getting married again.

Kaley Cuoco’s ex-husband Karl Cook is ready to tie the knot — popping the question to his girlfriend, Mackenzie Drazan.

Kaley Cuoco's ex-husband, Karl Cook, is tying the knot again.The 32-year-old professional equestrian and billionaire heir announced his engagement to mental health advocate and entrepreneur Mackenzie Drazan on Monday, sharing a loved-up selfie on Instagram. «No jokes or witty comments just deep happiness and love,» he captioned the shot, showing off Drazan's new ring as she rests her head on his shoulder. «I love you so much @mackenziedrazan. I am so sorry you have chosen to spend a lot more time with me.» A post shared by Karl Cook (@mrtankcook)The engagement comes one year after Cook's divorce from the  alum was finalized. In September 2021, Cuoco and Cook announced their split after three years of marriage in a joint statement to ET.«Despite a deep love and respect for one another, we have realized that our current paths have taken us in opposite directions,» the two said at the time.

Kaley Cuoco and boyfriend Tom Pelphrey are already planning their family’s future two months after welcoming their daughter, Matilda.

Spoilers for season 1 of . Now that most audiences have gotten through all eight episodes of, it begs the question: Will there be a season 2? While nothing is officially confirmed, Kaley Cuoco, Chris Messina, Tom Bateman and other stars of the comedic crime thriller are certainly down for more. And given all the cliffhangers in the finale, it would be more shocking if creator Craig Rosenberg's true-crime satire didn't get renewed for another season. Before we get into what the cast has to say about returning for more episodes and how some of those cliffhangers could be addressed in season 2 as well as Cuoco's one condition for her character, Ava, who was expecting her first child with husband, Nathan (Messina), in season 1, here's a brief recap of what went down in season 1.  Over the course of the first eight episodes, the true-crime obsessed Ava and Nathan Bartlett tried to turn personal and financial problems around by blackmailing the Westside Ripper into doing a true-crime podcast about his murders after discovering his true identity. It turns out, their local plumber, Matt Pierce (Bateman), was the Los Angeles-based serial killer.

Spoilers for, including the serial killer's identity and other key moments from season 1. Now streaming on Peacock, season 1 of mixes humor with sex and thrills to deliver a witty satire of the true-crime genre. At the center of creator Craig Rosenberg's series are Ava (Kaley Cuoco) and Nathan (Chris Messina) Bartlett, a married couple struggling to keep it together who decide to blackmail a serial killer in order to launch a podcast in hopes of solving their personal and financial problems. Known as the Westside Ripper, it's quickly revealed that the murderer terrorizing Los Angeles is a brooding yet smoldering local plumber named Matt Pierce (Tom Bateman), who was hired to do some handiwork at the Bartlett's home while also befriending the couple.

Peacock’s true-crime spoof “Based On a True Story” strikes a personal chord with the actress/comedian.“I was fascinated with true crime when I was a teenager,” Alfa, 43, told The Post. “I’m interested in people and the way they live their lives, so when something is outside of the norm it’s fascinating to me.“I’ve watched documentaries on different serial killers and now I have two young kids and as soon as I got pregnant it was like I was allergic to it,” she said.

from playing the lovable girl next door as Penny in to her more gritty character in, it seems everything the incredibly talented actress Kaley Cuoco touches turns to gold. Her latest role in Peacock's  looks as if it will be no different. Created by the executive producer of Prime Video's hit series  Craig Rosenberg and  and  star Jason Bateman,  is a new binge-worthy comedy — starring  and s Chris Messina alongside Cuoco — inspired by real events.

Alison Herman TV Critic The true crime industrial complex has grown so unwieldy over the years that the true crime critique is itself a phenomenon, if smaller in scale — the mothership’s opposite, though not quite its equal. On television, such takes run the tonal gamut from “The Investigation,” the somber Scandinavian drama about the real-life murder of journalist Kim Wall, to “Only Murders in the Building,” a silly spoof that takes loving aim at the likes of “Serial.” The new Peacock comedy “Based on a True Story” skews closer to the latter, down to its trio of aspiring podcasters in way over their heads. But even though it swaps Manhattan for sunny Los Angeles, “Based on a True Story” is much more bleak than “Only Murders.” (Creator Craig Rosenberg had a hand in the pitch-black humor of “The Boys.”) Some of that darkness adds to the show’s appeal; more often, much like its characters, “Based on a True Story” spins out of control. 

, which ran for two seasons on Max, Kaley Cuoco is returning to the world of crime in the new Peacock original series,. Created by showrunner Craig Rosenberg, the comedic thriller follows a down-on-their-luck married couple who find themselves crossing paths with an infamous serial killer and attempt to turn their fortune around by trying to convince the murderer into doing a true-crime podcast with them.

Kaley Cuoco is looking back at a scary accident.

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Kaley Cuoco is addressing the possibility of having more kids.

Kaley Cuoco really hopes she and boyfriend, Tom Pelphrey, will one day get the chance to work together.

It’s hard to watch characters as aggressively inconsistent and generally stupid as Ava and Nathan Bartlett for a whole season. The two leads of Craig Rosenberg’s new Peacock thriller/comedy make dumb decision after dumb decision, and most of them, well, don’t ring true.

Kaley Cuoco is opening up about a “horrible” horse accident she had roughly 15 years ago.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Playing a man who gets entangled in a murder investigation because his wife (Kaley Cuoco) is obsessed with true crime, “Based on a True Story” kind of hits close to home for Chris Messina. When he was a kid, he and a friend actually may have actually discovered a crime scene. “I grew up in Northport, Long Island,” Messina told Variety at the Peacock series’ premiere Thursday at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. “I grew up on Makamah Road, about a block from the Long Island Sound. A buddy and I walked to the Sound and – it was very ‘Stand By Me’ – we found a hand that washed up on the beach.” They immediately called the cops. “We had to report it,” Messina recalled. “I was pretending to be River Phoenix in ‘Stand By Me.’”

Kaley Cuoco and Tom Pelphrey are loving their family life. In a recent appearance on the podcast, the alum opened up about her relationship and whether she's looking to have more kids. Gushing over her newborn daughter Matilda, who was five weeks old at the time of the interview, Cuoco, 37, told hosts Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes about her whirlwind romance with Pelphrey, 40, and shared that they are hoping to add to their growing family.Asked whether the couple would like to have more children, Cuoco responded directly, «Yeah, we do.» A post shared by Kaley Cuoco (@kaleycuoco)The actress rehashed the story of the couple's meet-cute at the premiere last year, sweetly telling series star Bateman that, «you're the reason I met him.» She then shared that she and Pelphrey had only dated for two months before she became pregnant with Matilda. «We got pregnant two months in,» she said.