Giancarlo Esposito Joins All the Sinners Bleed as the Series Adds 10 More to Its Killer Cast

Netflix just loaded up its next true-evil thriller. All the Sinners Bleed already had a strong lead in Sope Dirisu, and now Variety says Giancarlo Esposito and ten more actors are stepping in as recurring players. That is a serious roster for a small-town nightmare.

What this one is about

Based on S.A. Cosby's novel, the series follows Titus Crown, the first Black sheriff in Charon County, Virginia. The place looks sleepy from the outside — the kind of town people describe with cornbread metaphors — but Titus is ex-FBI and knows better. A year to the day after he wins the job, a teacher is killed by a former student, and Titus's deputies then shoot the student dead. That awful chain of events cracks open the town and exposes a long-running, very organized horror: a serial killer who has been hiding in plain sight, with possible ties to a local church.

While Titus pushes ahead like he has the case under control, he is carrying his own buried trauma. He also has to deal with a far-right group itching to throw a parade that glorifies the town's Confederate past. So yeah, faith, violence, politics, and grief are all colliding here. Southern Gothic with a badge.

"Haunted by his devout mother's untimely death, the first Black Sheriff (Dirisu) in a small Bible Belt county must lead the hunt for a serial killer that has been preying on his Black community for years in the name of God."

Who is playing who

Here are the players, mixing the previously announced crew with today's new recurring additions, noted below:

• Sope Dirisu as Titus Crown, the newly elected sheriff at the center of it all
• John Douglas Thompson (The Gilded Age) as Albert Crown, Titus's father
• Nicole Beharie (Sleepy Hollow) as Darlene, Titus's supportive girlfriend
• Daniel Ezra (All American) as Marquis Crown, Titus's younger brother
• Andrea Cortes (Bosch: Legacy) as Deputy Carla Ortiz, on Titus's team
• Murray Bartlett (The White Lotus) as Scott Cunningham, the town's board of supervisors chair
• Leila George (Animal Kingdom) as Marlow Stoner
• Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad) as Ezekiel Wiggins — new, recurring
• David Lyons (The Beast in Me) as Jasper Sanderson — new, recurring
• Donald Elise Watkins (Emergency) as Deputy Trey Avery — new, recurring
• Mackenzie Astin (The Pitt) as Deputy Pip Collins — new, recurring
• Jordan M. Cox (P-Valley) as Deputy Tom Sadler — new, recurring
• Cullen Moss (Outer Banks) as Deputy Roger Simmons — new, recurring
• Angus O'Brien (Boots) as Deputy Davy Burks — new, recurring
• Cranston Johnson (Hap and Leonard) as Reverend Jamal Addison — new, recurring
• Christopher Matthew Cook (Dog Eat Dog) as Royce Lazare — new, recurring
• Christopher Thornton (The Lincoln Lawyer) as Dispatcher Cam Trowder — new, recurring
• Bill Oberst Jr. (3 from Hell) as Pastor Elias Hillington — new, recurring

Behind the scenes

Joe Robert Cole is writing the adaptation, running the show, and directing multiple episodes, including the opener. That's a strong creative throughline, and he's joined by executive producers from Barack and Michelle Obama's Higher Ground Productions and Amblin Television, alongside Cosby. For a limited series, that's an unusually stacked mix of talent on both sides of the camera.

Between the premise, the church connections, and the political friction, expect something tense, messy, and uncomfortably timely — the kind of case where the bodies are not the only things buried.