The trailer for Camila Mendes’s new Netflix movie, Dangerous Lies, just dropped, and I have a lot of thoughts.

Remember when Brenda Song starred in the Netflix thriller that gave off serious Lifetime movie vibes? You know, Secret Obsession, where she loses her memory in an accident and Mike Vogel pretends to be her husband, carting her off to a creepy house in the middle of nowhere with no cell reception and a lot of photoshopped couple pics? I think someone at Netflix went into their next pitch meeting and said, “That, but make it actually mysterious!”

“After losing her waitressing job, Katie Franklin (Mendes) takes a job as a caretaker to a wealthy elderly man in his sprawling, empty Chicago estate,” the Netflix description of Dangerous Lies reads on its press website. “The two grow close, but when he unexpectedly passes away and names Katie as his sole heir, she and her husband, Adam (Jessie T. Usher), are pulled into a complex web of lies, deception, and murder. If she’s going to survive, Katie will have to question everyone’s motives—even the people she loves.”

“Even the people she loves” means her husband, guys. Seriously, based on the trailer, Adam seems to really enjoy all that new money a bit too much, and you know how much Lifetime loves a sketchy husband. Apparently, Netflix does, too! Still, the whole thing also reads like a grown-up, movie-length episode of Riverdale with its New England landscape, noir lighting, that diner, and all the hot people (including Cam Gigandet and Jamie Chung).

Take a look at the trailer for yourself, below:

Of course, I’d be remiss not to mention the Knives Out parallels, considering the hilarious whodunit that graced us with Chris Evans in that cozy sweater also centers around a caretaker who’s left with a fortune after her employer dies of questionable causes. (Quick question, can someone get Jessie T. Usher in the sweater, STAT?)

Dangerous Lies hits Netflix on April 30. With all these references in mind, how could you not give it a watch?

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