Hal & Harper Is Nothing If Not Ambitious

Twentysomethings playing kids? Lili Reinhart tells Us how her new series is taking risks

- YANG GREBENYUK

The Riverdale alum also has a horror comedy called Forbidden Fruits coming up, with Lola Tung.

Imagine a family turned upside-down by the mother's suicide: a depressed father, a brother and sister perhaps too dependent on each other, growing up too fast. The new dramedy Hal & Harper leans into that last idea by having the actors portraying the adult siblings — Cooper Raiff, 28, and Lili Reinhart, 29 — also play them as kids: Raiff’s Hal is 7, Reinhart’s Harper, 9.