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The Undoing centers on Grace Sachs, who is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. She's a successful therapist on the brink of publishing her first book, has a devoted husband and young son who attends an elite private school in New York City. Weeks before her book is published, a chasm opens in her life: a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself.

The Cleaning Lady is a one-hour darkly aspirational character drama about a whip-smart doctor who comes to the U.S. for a medical treatment to save her ailing son. But when the system fails and pushes her into hiding, she refuses to be beaten down and marginalized. Instead, she becomes a cleaning lady for the mob and starts playing the game by her own rules.

The series follows two people who let a road rage incident fester in their minds as it begins to slowly consume their every thought and action.

Little Fires Everywhere follows the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and an enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. The story explores the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, the ferocious pull of motherhood - and the danger in believing that following the rules can avert disaster.

Alert: Missing Persons Unit” is a procedural drama set in the Philadelphia Police Department’s Missing Persons Unit. Each episode features a heart-pounding, life-or-death search for a missing person headed by detectives Jason Grant and Nikki Batista. Together with the MPU team, their job is to find the missing or abducted and reunite them with their loved ones. Jason and Nikki, once married, have a very personal connection to these cases as their own young son went missing and was never found. The emotional toll of their son’s disappearance blew up their marriage, but even though they’ve moved on, their bond remains.

The Last Thing He Told Me follows the story of a woman who forms an unexpected relationship with her sixteen-year-old stepdaughter while searching for the truth about why her husband has mysteriously disappeared.

When a kidnap spirals out of control, Yorkshire police sergeant Catherine Cawood comes face to face with the man who destroyed her family.Kevin Weatherill pays a visit to Catherine Cawood at a West Yorkshire police station to report a crime. It involves holding his boss' daughter for ransom and using the money to send his children to a private school.

The series centers on the powerful Judge Harris Pernell, a hard-living, law-bending married man with a high-end call girl on the side who has a religious awakening and starts having visions and hearing voices through his ventilator-bound son that could be God speaking to him.

A psychological thriller tells the story of Jenna, a popular teacher with a chaotic private life. After a night out celebrating a promotion, Jenna is accused of sleeping with Kyle Hope, a 15-year-old pupil.

Jane is enjoying a life away from working as a forensic psychiatrist on the police frontline as a university professor. She is also in a stable and loving long-term relationship with her musician partner Ben, and is comfortable in her role as stepmother to his daughter Zoe. However, the case of a serial killer who is terrorising Melbourne lures her back to the job she left behind as the case suddenly gets very personal.

The Sandell family is a normal family consisting of the priest Adam, the lawyer Ulrika and their 19-year-old daughter Stella. They live a seemingly perfect life in a polished residential suburb outside of Lund. One day, everything changes when Stella ends up in custody, accused of murder. Her devastated parents don't know what to do. What has happened? They want to help Stella at any cost, but do they really know their daughter? Or each other?

Szczecin, the turn of winter and spring. The body of a young woman rises to the surface from under the breaking ice. Who was she, why did she die, who did she leave behind? Did those who mourn her today really know her? These questions and the search for answers to them will be for the main character a strong, though initially unconscious, impulse to confront her own situation: a single mother who plays the role of a perfect policewoman, and most of all a human being in a time of crisis.

The story of a young woman from a modest upbringing who discovers she may have a bright future in Washington D.C.'s fast-paced political scene. When Anna (Danielle Savre) leaves her trailer park home in Alabama in a cloud of dust, she cuts all ties with her family and buries every element of her checkered past. Her friends in Washington think she comes from a wealthy family and know nothing of her real upbringing. Suddenly, the real Anna is exposed when she causes a major political scandal and makes national headlines for her part in an affair with one of the nation's most powerful players. With nowhere to turn, she's forced to find sanctuary in the only place she has left - home.

The compelling eight-part drama series Wakefield explores the fine line between sanity and madness. Set in a hospital in the spectacular Blue Mountains outside Sydney, the show tackles the taboo subject of mental illness head on. It does so through an engaging ensemble of unique characters, each with their own compelling story. At its centre is a psychological mystery: Nik Katira , a gifted psychiatric nurse, is the most stable person in what tends to be a pretty crazy place. But right now his grip on his own sanity is slipping. The question is ... why? With both humour and heart, Wakefield is a powerful and highly original series that will be compulsory television viewing.

Penny's world implodes when she accuses her husband of a sex crime, and nobody believes her. Five years later, she must decide what's more important - the truth, or rebuilding her relationship with her daughter.

Detective Martin Oudkerk was sent to the police academy as an 18-year-old boy by his criminal stepfather Henk, so that he can pass on information later. Martin's world changes when Henk is murdered by a new group of ruthless criminals. When they force Martin to pass on information, he must do everything he can to keep himself going and protect his family. When Martin is finally stuck with nowhere to go, he is forced to cross borders.

After badly bungling a pitch meeting, middle manager Thomas Benso is determined to win back the client but feels undermined by his team. Is someone really out to get him? And can Bartlett create the same paranoid intensity from workplace bullying as he did with a betrayal in the home?

This is a drama series starring Christopher Eccleston as Daniel Demoys a man who feels a stranger in his own life. Over the years he has gone from being an idealistic young man with desire to a disillusioned and corrupt council official. His life is now a complete mess and he is drinking heavily and suffering with blackouts.

Inspired by the book "The Skeleton Crew" by Deborah Halber and infused with the personal story of producer Wendy West. The series follows the life of a thirty-year-old woman (Ola Serafin) who is forced by circumstances to leave her husband and London, and return to her hometown of Lódz. While driving her car one night, she witnesses a dramatic situation which looks like suicide, but which she finds highly suspicious. The police seem to be indifferent to the case. Desperate, Ola looks for help on the Internet, where she finds a group of amateur detectives that solve criminal cases the police are unable to.

Aranyélet follows a corrupt businessman as he tries to balance his family life and navigate through legal and financial difficulties. As his problems escalate, he must make difficult decisions that will affect not only himself, but also those closest to him. Will he be able to keep his secrets hidden and maintain his luxurious lifestyle?

Elif and Erhan are an engaged couple who love each other very much and their biggest expectation from life is to get married and build a happy home. The routine of their lives is disrupted by Erhan's tragic deception and Erhan is faced with a debt that is very difficult to pay. Their lives and psychology will be turned upside down with this news they receive on one of Erhan's business trips. While debt, which is almost impossible to pay, has turned their lives into a nightmare, the offer made by Erhan's boss Sibel will change their lives forever...

Tom Ronstadt (John Simm) is a successful London journalist whose world is crumbling around him. He's in he process of moving back to his hometown in Lancashire where he has difficulty dealing with his father's Alzheimer's.

Hélène is based in Berlin and her family life is fulfilled. But she sees her daily life disrupted when her daughter, a student in Paris, finds herself suspected of the murder of a rich heir. Back in Paris and helped by Vincent, a lawyer but also youthful love, Hélène does not suspect that soon, her certainties will waver... Does she really know her child?

Michi is a successful consultant in Zurich. But a phone call changes everything. His father took his own life. Together with his mother and two siblings, Michi must now decides between his own career or saving the family farm.

Sando is Australia's queen of the discount furniture package deal. She's built her empire on being a down-to-earth larrikin and is something of a national treasure - to all but her family. They banished her a decade ago when her one-night stand (and resulting pregnancy) by her daughter's fiancé was shockingly revealed at his wedding to her daughter. Now, after a health scare, her career on a precipice and her professional nemesis primed to push her into the abyss, Sando is determined to rekindle the family relationship. She needs them, and in spite of their initial apprehension...and unbridled hatred...soon they'll discover they might actually need her too.