玛利亚(玛丽·克林逊 Mary Collinson 饰)和菲力达(玛德琳·克林逊 Madeleine Collinson 饰)是一对情同手足的姐妹,两人的父母去世之后,走投无路的两姐妹决定前往乡下去投靠她们的舅舅古斯塔夫(彼得·库欣 Peter Cushing 饰)。 古斯塔夫是一位非常虔诚而又嫉恶如仇的天主教徒,他坚信自己所住的小镇受到了诅咒,而隐藏在居民之中的女巫们就是散播诅咒的元凶。古斯塔夫发起了一场浩浩荡荡的猎巫行动,许多无辜的女孩惨死在了他的手中。在贵族卡斯坦公爵(达米安·托马斯 Damien Thomas 饰)的诱惑之下,菲力达变成了嗜血邪恶的吸血鬼,善良的玛利亚决定保护姐姐的安全,让她免受古斯塔夫的戕害。
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.