Sweet Magnolias, executive producer and showrunner Sheryl J. Anderson thought she was seeing things. There, in big white letters on her Netflix home screen, was the streaming service's list of top 10 shows in the United States.
And at number one? Sweet Magnolias, a feel-good series starring JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Brooke Elliott, and Heather Headley as lifelong friends in a small Southern town.“I thought it had to have been some mistake when I saw it was trending,” Anderson tells Glamour.
The romance-drama was adapted from Sherryl Woods’ hit novels of the same name, but she didn't expect the series version to take off that quickly. “I checked eight different places, and then I had my tech-savvy kids check too.