Happy Face: How To Watch The Killer Drama Starring Dennis Quaid Online

Dennis Quaid is putting on his Happy Face — and it's more chilling than it sounds. Here's everything you need to know for streaming the new drama series online.

Watch 'Happy Face'

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Happy Face premieres its first two episodes on Paramount Plus on Thursday, March 20. If you want to keep up on all the killer action, you'll need to subscribe to the streamer. Below, we're outlining more details about how to watch Happy Face with various Paramount Plus plans.

Paramount Plus offers a few different streaming plans. (See details below). But regardless of which plan you choose, signing up is easy. Here are the step-by-step instructions for signing up for Paramount Plus to watch Happy Face:

1. Go to the Paramount Plus website
2. Click the "Get Started" blue button
3. Select a monthly or annual plan
4. Enter user information including name, email and birth date
5. You'll be redirected to a payment information screen
6. Enter payment information
7. Start streaming Happy Face!

The streamer offers two different plans in both monthly and annual subscription options.

You can opt for the Paramount Plus Essential plan to watch Happy Face with ads for $7.99/month or $59.99/year; this plan does not include Showtime or your local live CBS station, but NFL on CBS and UEFA Champions League are available via separate live feeds.

Alternatively, you can stream Happy Face ad-free by subscribing to the Paramount Plus With Showtime plan for $12.99/month. The Paramount Plus With Showtime plan does include your local live CBS station. Though the plan is mostly ad-free, live TV streams will still have commercials, and a few shows include brief promotional interruptions to keep you in the loop on new and upcoming Paramount Plus programming.

Per the official synopsis, Happy Face follows Keith Jesperson, aka the Happy Face Killer, and his daughter Melissa as Keith "finally finds a way to force himself back into his daughter's life" after decades without contact. "In a race against the clock, Melissa must find out if an innocent man is going to be put to death for a crime her father committed," the description continues. "Throughout, she discovers the impact her father had on his victims' families and must face a reckoning of her own identity."

The series is inspired by the real-life story of Moore, who at 15 discovered her father was the infamous Happy Face serial killer; he got the moniker because of the smiley faces he drew on evidence while boasting about his crimes. Moore went on to change her name and keep their relationship a secret while her father served life in prison. (The story has already been adapted in Moore's Happy Face podcast, and told in "Shattered Silence," her autobiography co-written by M. Bridget Cook.)

Happy Face drops its first two episodes on Paramount Plus on Thursday, March 20. After the double-episode premiere, new episodes will release weekly.

Happy Face stars Quaid as Keith Jesperson, aka the Happy Face Killer, and Annaleigh Ashford (B Positive) as his daughter, Melissa Moore.

As previously reported, the cast also includes James Wolk (Mad Men) as Melissa's bank manager husband, who thinks they've left the trauma of her past behind them — that is, until that past comes knocking on their door, and he grows concerned that his wife is being manipulated all over again. Tamera Tomakili (Winning Time), Khiyla Aynne (Ponysitters Club) and Benjamin Mackey (The Morning Show) round out the ensemble.