阿尔文史崔特先生(理查德·法恩斯沃斯 Richard Farnsworth 饰)已经七十多岁了,他不仅个性孤僻古怪,视力状况也每况愈下。史崔特先生和女儿罗斯(茜茜·斯派塞克 Sissy Spacek 饰)相依为命,父女两人的日子虽然过得清贫,但也不失宁静和乐趣。 哥哥莱尔(哈利·戴恩·斯坦通 Harry Dean Stanton 饰)病重的消息打破了史崔特先生家中的平静气氛。虽然由于曾经的矛盾,兄弟两人已经将近十年没有见过面了,但如今史崔特先生已然步入了老年,经历过生命力的种种变幻和无常,史崔特先生决定,是时修补一下兄弟之间的裂痕了。就这样,史崔特先生驾驶着自己的割草机上路了,目的地是300英里之外的威斯康辛州。
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.