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Browse - Most popular shows featuring: troubled pastx
Firefly Lane
Kate and Tully meet as young girls and become inseparable best friends throughout thirty years of ups and downs, successes and failures, depression and disappointments. When an unthinkable betrayal breaks them apart, the two women go their separate ways and it's unclear whether they will ever be able to reconcile.
Hap and Leonard
Hap Collins is a white working class laborer who spent time in federal prison as a young man for refusing to be drafted into the military and serve in the Vietnam War. In his late forties, he is often haunted by the various unpleasant jobs he's held over the years such as working at an aluminum chair factory and working the East Texas rose fields. The two now work for the former police officer turned private investigator Marvin Hanson. Hap tries his best to avoid violence and also tries his best to avoid the taking of another human life. Often lovesick, most of his relationships haven't worked out. He is currently with his on-again-off-again girlfriend Brett Sawyer. Some of his past has been taken from Mr. Lansdale's own past. The stories are told from Hap's narrative point of view. Not as quick to anger as Leonard, he often finds himself attempting to talk Leonard out of committing serious violence.
Flesh and Bone
Described as a dark and gritty exploration of the dysfunction and glamour of the ballet world, "Flesh And Bone" follows a young ballet dancer, Claire, who has a distinctly troubled past, as she joins a prestigious ballet company in New York.
Hinterland
The lead character, DCI Tom Mathias (Richard Harrington), is a brilliant but troubled man on the run from his past. Having abandoned his life in London, he finds himself holed up in a caravan overlooking the sea on the outskirts of town - a place filled with secrets as dark and destructive as his own. Together with hometown girl DI Mared Rhys (Mali Harries), he forms an engaging partnership in a thrilling new drama with pace, poetry and scale.
The Kettering Incident
This series begins as Doctor Anna Macy finds herself inexplicably linked to the cases of two girls who have mysteriously disappeared in identical circumstances in the wilds of Tasmania 15 years apart. To clear her name, Anna must delve into her troubled past and face some truths about herself and the otherworldly nature of this gothic land.
Les Norton
Set in 1985, the series will follow the exploits of a country bloke from outback Queensland. On the run from a troubled past, he blows into Sydney where he lands a job as a bouncer at an illegal casino. A classic fish out of water who is desperate to get home, he soon finds himself seduced by the city's illicit charms and dragged into a web of underground criminality.
Still the King
Vernon Brown, AKA "Burnin' Vernon," a scandal-ridden washed up one-hit wonder kicked out of country music, emerges 20 years later as the second best Elvis impersonator.
Kulüp
In cosmopolitan 1950s Istanbul, a mother with a troubled past works at a nightclub to reconnect with and help the rebellious daughter she couldn't raise.
Gülcemal
The story revolves around the love that begins with hatred between Gülcemal (Murat Ünalmış), whom his mother abandoned and turned into a dark monster when he was young, and the beautiful Deva (Melis Sezen), who becomes engulfed in a whirlwind of fire, passion, and storm. In Gülcemal's battle with his mother, will an unexpected love or the years of hatred he has harbored prevail? Will Gülcemal, on this road full of sacrifices, turn from being a cruel hunter to prey out in the open? And what about Deva? When she finally surrenders, will she realize that this love is impossible?
Cape Town
Cop Mat Joubert is devastated after his wife, also working for the police, has been murdered, spending his time on alcohol and suicidal thoughts. After being back on the job, he is partnered with a new colleague and has to investigate the murders of several men, all shot with the same German weapon. While on another place of Cape Town, young female models are drugged, raped and murdered.
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