小小少年T.S. 斯派维(凯尔·凯特莱特 Kyle Catlett 饰)生于蒙大拿州一个偏远牧场,他有一颗聪明绝顶的大脑,酷爱制图学和科学图解,年仅十岁就发明了永动机。他的父亲(考乐姆·吉斯·雷尼 Callum Keith Rennie 饰)是个狂热的牛仔迷,搜集关于西部牛仔的一切;母亲(海伦娜·伯翰·卡特 Helena Bonham Carter 饰)是一位生物学博士,潜心投入到昆虫研究中;而姐姐则是一个最普通不过的正常人,她常常为生在这个一屋子怪人的家里而烦恼。T.S.原本还有一个异卵双胞胎弟弟雷顿,去年死于一场意外。
这天,T.S.接到一个来自史密森学院的电话,告知他被授予了世界科学大奖贝尔德奖,并邀请他到华盛顿演讲。于是,十岁的科学奇才T.S.斯派维,偷偷爬上了货运火车,独自踏上了穿越美国的奇异旅行。
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.