在外星人的眼中,地球人就是供他们玩乐的消遣。一群外星人打了一个赌,赌注是地球的存亡。他们在地球上随机选了一个人,赋予他心想事成的超能力,如果这个人最终成为了贪得无厌的恶人,外星人就选择把地球毁灭,但如果这个人依然维持着善良的本性,则意味着地球仍然有着继续运转的意义。
平凡而又内向的中学老师尼尔(西蒙·佩吉 Simon Pegg 饰)成为了这名干系到地球存亡的天选之子,在拥有了超能力后,尼尔的身边发生了一连串有惊无险令人不知该笑还是该害怕的意外。与此同时,尼尔默默爱慕的女子凯瑟琳(凯特·贝金赛尔 Kate Beckinsale 饰)也被卷入了危险之中。
Based on the internationally acclaimed Tudor murder mystery novels by C.J. Sansom, the four-part drama is set in 16th century England during the dissolution of the monasteries. The series will follow the story of Matthew Shardlake, a lawyer with an acute sense of justice and one of the few honest men in a world beset with scheming and plots. Shardlake works for Thomas Cromwell, the dangerous and all-powerful right-hand man to Henry VIII. Despite Shardlake’s unwavering loyalty to Cromwell and the Crown, his position in society is unfavored due to his appearance, as a person living with scoliosis during the Tudor period, suffering the indignity of being abused as a “crookback” wherever he turns. As he investigates the murder of one of Cromwell’s commissioners at a monastery in the remote town of Scarnsea, he is accompanied by Jack Barak, a cocky and good-looking character who may be Cromwell’s spy.
Nothing is more frightening, as the narrator points out, than a ‘time-rich nosy person’. Exhibit A is Ahn Geo-ul (Gyeong Su-jin), who commits herself to social justice causes with terrifying tenacity. After temporarily renting a unit in the Baek-sae Apartment building, she discovers that a loud, hard to locate banging noise occurs from 4am every night, making the residents’ lives an insomniac hell – and so she determines to engage in her own disruption and to find the culprit of this acoustic assault, simultaneously eliminating her eccentric neighbours as suspects, and recruiting them to her cause. Focusing on a woman who is an unstoppable force for good, it is also a plea for community cohesion and solidarity.