Washington DC, Aug. 13 -- Actress Emilia Jones has been cast in a lead role in the upcoming Netflix limited series 'The Retrievals,' reported Variety. The series was announced in May. It is based on the New York Times and Serial Productions podcast of the same name.

According to the outlet, the logline states that the show "follows an unlikely community of IVF patients who come together to crusade against Yale University after they are operated on without anaesthesia-because a nurse stole their fentanyl."

Jones will play Gabby Clemente, described as "a New Haven bartender and student teacher whose life is upended by her traumatic egg retrieval surgery. Upon discovering that a nurse at the clinic was stealing vast amounts of fentanyl, Ga...