After suffering a miscarriage, Rosemary and Guy (Zoe Saldaña and Patrick J. Adams) Woodhouse leave New York City for Paris, hoping to make a fresh start.

A series of serendipitous events lead them to befriend affluent couple Margaux (Carole Bouquet) and Roman Castevet (Jason Isaacs), who invite them to live in their prestigious apartment building.

She finds evidence of the previous couple who lived in their apartment, and after going to Commissioner Fontaine (Olivier Rabourdin) with her suspicions, learns that the woman, Nena (Victoire Bélézy), died by suicide.

Following a lead, Rosemary finds Nena's priest, who tells her the apartment building has a dark past, and one of its tenants is a Satanist billionaire named Steven Marcato who eats women's hearts.

In a dream-like state, Rosemary sees herself getting raped by a strange man, while being watched by Guy, Margaux, Roman, and the Castevets' friends.

[1][7] While the new adaptation was bloodier than the original movie version, it attempted to be more sophisticated by touching on themes such as "post-feminist meditation on the loss of control that women feel with pregnancy and on the seduction of money and power".

The consensus read: "Although the Parisian setting and special effects are impressive, this Rosemary's Baby remake resorts to sensationalism and gore."

[8][13][14] Poniewozik stated that although director Holland had successfully directed complex and lively episodes of The Wire and Treme, this adaptation was "leaden and slack", which may have been due to an attempt to fill two two-hour time slots.

[8] Poniewozik characterized Rosemary and Guy (Patrick J. Adams) as "anesthetically generic" without a "complex relationship"; he likened the miniseries to a "lifestyle show" that becomes a "slasher movie".

[14] Stuever noted that the 2014 adaptation was set in "the hyper-aware boutique pregnancy" era, and pointed out one modernization that eased Rosemary's burden: Google image searches on Satan.

[8] David Bianculli of NPR felt the shift to Paris was unnecessary and that the adaptation was "neither refreshing nor original"; he summed it up as "just dreadful".