Note: This story contains spoilers from "Grosse Point Garden Society" Episode 1. "Grosse Point Garden Society" plunges viewers into a dark moment as a group of friends -- linked by a suburban garden club in Michigan -- cover up a murder,

AnnaSophia Robb, Melissa Fumero and Aja Naomi King play members of a club who become tangled up in a bloody and mysterious death.

In the new NBC show "Grosse Pointe Garden Society," it could be either option.

In the new soapy NBC drama, Melissa Fumero and Aja Naomi King lead a unlikely crew causing murder and mayhem in a suburban garden society.

That's one of the many things that make Grosse Pointe Garden Society work so well. There are flower metaphors aplenty. AnnaSophia Robb's Alice, a high school teacher whose beloved dog is missing, takes viewers through the show's cast of characters in the pilot episode by comparing them with their floral counterparts.

NBC’s “Grosse Pointe Garden Society,” premiering Sunday, Feb. 23, at 10 p.m., is the latest series to try to recapture some of the soapy spark that “Desperate Housewives” brought to primetime television over 20 years ago.

New episodes of "Grosse Pointe Garden Society," co-starring AnnaSophia Robb, Ben Rappaport, Aja Naomi King and Melissa Fumero, air Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on NBC.

NBC's 'Grosse Pointe Garden Society' stars a stacked cast including Melissa Fumero, Aja Naomi King, Ben Rappaport and AnnaSophia Robb

The executive producer hyped the chemistry between Aja Naomi King, Melissa Fumero, and the rest of the GPGS cast.

We see a sign that says “Mack Avenue Garden Center, Grosse Pointe, MI.” The Gist: Six months earlier, we’re at the garden center in the daytime. In a voice over, a young teacher named Alice (AnnaSophia Robb),