8 episodes
“Sugar” (season 1) — centers on John Sugar, a polished private investigator and devoted film lover who returns to Los Angeles after completing a case in Japan and is hired by legendary producer Jonathan Siegel to find his missing granddaughter, Olivia. The assignment draws Sugar into a wealthy Hollywood family where affection, addiction, resentment, and reputation have been tangled together for years. Olivia’s father Bernie wants the search contained, her half-brother Davy reacts with hostility, and Melanie Mackintosh, a woman close to Olivia, seems to know more than she is ready to admit. As Sugar moves through luxury hotels, studio offices, nightclubs, abandoned streets, and private homes, he uncovers a body hidden in Olivia’s car, disturbing connections to powerful men, and evidence that someone is trying to steer him away from the truth. Ruby, his trusted handler, urges caution, while Henry and others from Sugar’s private circle hint that his interest in the case may expose secrets of his own. Beneath his calm manners and refusal to carry a gun lies a man haunted by a missing sister, sudden physical episodes, and an identity he keeps carefully concealed. Blending classic noir imagery with a mystery that gradually shifts into stranger territory, “Sugar” (season 1) becomes a stylish detective drama about empathy, obsession, Hollywood corruption, and a man searching for one missing woman while trying not to reveal how deeply he understands the feeling of being lost. (more…)
6 episodes
“The Dark” (season 1) — opens in the Scottish Highlands, where DI Monica Kennedy is called away from a tense family situation after the body of 17-year-old Jason Morgan is discovered deliberately posed in the wilderness. The crime immediately reopens an older wound: Jason’s brother Nichol disappeared five years earlier, and Monica was part of the investigation that never gave their mother Bethany a clear answer. Paired with new detective Connor Crawford, whose instinctive, direct style unsettles her more guarded approach, Monica begins tracing links between the brothers, a second victim, and a rural community where fear spreads faster than facts. Suspicion falls across isolated homes, hotel corridors, woodland tracks, and people who seem ordinary until their stories stop matching, including a withdrawn poacher, a troubled young waiter, and an unsettling social worker. As anonymous phones, carefully staged bodies, hidden observation, and signs of another intended victim turn the inquiry into a race against time, Monica’s own past begins pressing into the case and weakening her trust in her judgment. The killer appears to know not only the landscape but the private fractures of the people being hunted, making every familiar place feel watched. “The Dark” (season 1) becomes a cold, atmospheric Scottish crime thriller about buried guilt, family trauma, paranoia, and a detective pursuing a predator whose campaign is designed to make an entire community afraid of what may be hiding beside them. (more…)
“Unsinkable” (2024) — begins in the days after the Titanic disaster, when the RMS Carpathia reaches New York carrying survivors whose testimony may determine whether the sinking is remembered as unavoidable tragedy or preventable failure. Senator William Alden Smith quickly convenes a public inquiry before key witnesses can leave the country, placing himself against shipping interests, political pressure, and officials eager to keep the investigation narrow. At his side, secretary Maggie Malloy organizes a flood of statements, while investigative journalist Alaine Ricard follows contradictions pointing toward ignored warnings, inadequate lifeboats, and decisions shaped by money and reputation. As White Star Line chairman J. Bruce Ismay, surviving officers, wireless operators, passengers, and crew recount the final hours, the hearings are interwoven with flashbacks to the freezing Atlantic, desperate lifeboat launches, acts of sacrifice, and confusion aboard a ship advertised as nearly impossible to sink. Nancy Smith watches the inquiry consume her husband, reminding him that accountability carries personal as well as political costs. With every testimony challenged and every powerful institution seeking distance from blame, the film shifts the familiar Titanic story away from spectacle and toward the struggle to establish responsibility after catastrophe. “Unsinkable” (2024) becomes a sober historical drama about courage, corporate influence, public truth, and the difficult work of ensuring that the dead are not reduced to statistics once the headlines fade. (more…)
6 episodes
“Riot Women” (season 1) — brings together five women in Hebden Bridge who are exhausted by being ignored, underestimated, and expected to keep everyone else’s lives running smoothly. Beth Thornton, a disillusioned teacher struggling with loneliness and a painful distance from her adopted son Tom, is pulled into the idea of forming a band by pub landlady Jess Burchill, whose local talent contest offers an unlikely escape from routine. They are joined by retired police officer Holly Gaskell, her blunt midwife sister Yvonne Vaux, and chaotic shoplifter Kitty Eckersley, whose raw voice and volatile energy give the group the punk spirit it was missing. Rehearsals begin as a mess of borrowed instruments, clashing personalities, forgotten chords, and arguments over what they should sing, but writing their own songs awakens anger about menopause, family demands, ageing parents, failed relationships, workplace cruelty, and the quiet erasure of women in middle age. As Nisha Lal and others enter their orbit, the band becomes more than preparation for one performance: it creates a space where private pain can be shouted, played, and finally heard. Yet the growing bond between Beth and Kitty is complicated by a buried connection that threatens both the music and the fragile trust holding everyone together. “Riot Women” (season 1) becomes a fierce, funny, and deeply emotional drama about friendship, rage, survival, and women discovering that making noise may be the first step toward reclaiming their lives. (more…)
6 episodes
“Here We Go” (season 2) — returns to the Jessop household as life changes faster than any of them can manage, with Sam still filming every argument and humiliating disaster as proof that his family cannot complete even the simplest plan normally. Amy comes back from Norway missing the fjords and trying to decide what comes next, while Maya remains close enough to make love and independence more complicated. Rachel begins a university course and becomes determined to prove she can keep up with classmates half her age, even when student drinking games and her own lack of restraint suggest otherwise. Paul throws himself into police training with the same confidence and confusion he brings to everything, turning neighbourhood problems, anonymous Valentine’s flowers, and attempts to impress real officers into full investigations. Sue moves in and immediately takes command of the street, while Robin and Cherry’s approaching wedding creates proposals, dress shopping, an overambitious joint pre-wedding party, and strange ideas about their future. From Paul’s unreliable old boat and Sue’s chaotic street fair to Rachel’s competitive sister Penny, Sam’s looming exams, Maya’s plans, and one ill-advised tattoo, the season keeps pushing the Jessops toward change while proving they remain incapable of handling it gracefully. “Here We Go” (season 2) becomes another warm, sharply observed British family comedy about embarrassment, reinvention, and the stubborn affection holding everyone together when every celebration and good intention goes wrong. (more…)
8 episodes
“Star City” (season 1) — steps behind the Iron Curtain into the same alternate-history space race, shifting the perspective from NASA’s triumphs to the Soviet program after the USSR becomes the first nation to put a man on the Moon. Inside the secretive world of Star City, cosmonauts, engineers, military officials, and intelligence officers are pushed to risk their bodies, careers, and families for a victory the state cannot afford to lose. Irina Morozova, Colonel Lyudmilla Raskova, Anastasia Belikova, Sergei Nikulov, and the people around them move through a system built on ambition, surveillance, propaganda, and fear, where every successful launch hides technical failures, political threats, and personal compromises. As training intensifies at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, the dream of reaching further into space becomes tangled with informants, loyalty tests, leaking secrets, and the constant pressure to make Soviet glory look effortless. The season turns the wonder of space exploration into a paranoid political thriller, where the stars promise freedom but the ground is ruled by secrecy, suspicion, and consequences. “Star City” (season 1) becomes a darker companion to the larger space-race saga, exploring sacrifice, ideology, and the people forced to decide how much of themselves they can give to a dream controlled by the state. (more…)
8 episodes
“The Five-Star Weekend” (season 1) — centers on Hollis Shaw, a beloved food influencer and bestselling author whose beautifully curated Nantucket life cracks after the sudden death of her husband Matthew exposes grief, loneliness, and problems her followers never saw. Unable to move forward, Hollis decides to host a “five-star weekend,” inviting one important woman from each stage of her life to her coastal home: Tatum, her childhood best friend who still carries old wounds; Dru-Ann, her glamorous college friend facing professional and personal pressure; Brooke, a newer friend from motherhood whose polished life hides its own strain; and Gigi, a devoted fan from Hollis’s online world who arrives as both outsider and unsettling mirror. As Caroline, Hollis’s daughter, struggles with resentment and distance, and Jack, Hollis’s first love, reappears with memories of a life not taken, the weekend becomes less a luxury escape than an emotional reckoning. Shared meals, beach walks, old photographs, expensive rooms, private confessions, and quiet betrayals slowly reveal that each woman has brought her own unfinished story to Nantucket. “The Five-Star Weekend” (season 1) becomes a sunlit but bittersweet drama about female friendship, grief, reinvention, and the dangerous gap between the perfect life someone presents and the complicated truth waiting behind it. (more…)
6 episodes
“Ms. X” (season 1) — centers on Mia Bennett, a stretched-thin Auckland mother of two whose carefully managed suburban routine begins to crack when she suspects her husband is cheating and decides that quiet humiliation is no longer enough. Between school drop-offs, neighborhood meetings, money worries, judgmental parents, and the exhausting performance of looking in control, Mia reunites with Oscar Clarke, an old high school friend and would-be private investigator whose confidence is far greater than his actual skill. Their plan is supposed to be simple: scare her husband into staying faithful, expose the lie, and let Mia reclaim some dignity. Instead, one reckless choice turns accidentally deadly, pulling them into a criminal world neither of them understands. Soon Mia is trapped between suspicious police, dangerous cartel figures, vicious parents from the school circle, and suburban responsibilities that refuse to pause just because her life has become a crime scene. As Oscar keeps improvising badly and Mia discovers that motherhood has given her stranger survival skills than she ever realized, the season turns domestic frustration into a fast, darkly comic spiral of panic, lies, cash, and consequences. “Ms. X” (season 1) becomes a sharp New Zealand crime comedy-drama about betrayal, reinvention, and the terrifying discovery that an ordinary mum can become very dangerous when pushed too far. (more…)
9 episodes
“Dutton Ranch” (season 1) follows a fractured Montana dynasty as old wounds resurface when the next generation of Duttons returns home to a ranch still haunted by violence, loyalty, and the legacy of choices made long before they were born. As the family reunites, long‑buried disputes flare up with a force that threatens to split the ranch in two. Rumors of land deals and political pressure begin to circle, drawing opportunists who see the Duttons’ turmoil as an opening. Even the surrounding community feels the tremors, sensing that the balance of power in the valley is shifting. And every uneasy conversation hints at deeper fractures waiting to erupt. As shifting alliances, buried family secrets, and rising external threats converge on the land they’re sworn to protect, each member of the clan is forced to confront the cost of carrying a name that has shaped the region for over a century. In a world where power is inherited but survival must be earned, “Dutton Ranch” (season 1) becomes a sweeping, character‑driven battle for identity, territory, and the future of a family built on unbreakable land and unforgivable history. (more…)
6 episodes
“Hidden Assets” (season 2) — returns one year after the Antwerp bombings, with the Criminal Assets Bureau now led by DS Claire Wallace and still living with the damage left by the diamond trail that connected Irish crime to European terror. When Trestford boss Richard Melnick dies in Antwerp, his daughter Bibi Brannigan finds herself pushed out of the company and dangerously exposed, carrying information that could link powerful business interests back to the attacks. Her offer to cooperate pulls Claire, Sean Prendergast, Josh Ola, Norah Dillon, and the Irish team into another cross-border investigation, while Christian De Jong remains under scrutiny for his actions in Belgium and struggles to keep chasing the truth through a system already suspicious of him. As hitmen, corporate fixers, political pressure, and hidden financial networks close around Bibi, Frances Swann tries to protect Trestford’s public image with increasingly ruthless choices, turning every press statement, boardroom maneuver, and security move into part of a wider cover-up. The season shifts between Ireland and Antwerp with sharper urgency, using raids, surveillance, witness protection, and tense police cooperation to show how dirty money can survive by moving through legal institutions. “Hidden Assets” (season 2) becomes a tighter Irish-Belgian crime thriller about power, accountability, and the dangerous moment when the people who followed the money discover that the money has started hunting back. (more…)
