斯坦福爵士(克里斯托弗·普卢默 Christopher Plummer 饰)嗜赌如命,在全部家产挥霍殆尽之后,丧心病狂的斯坦福竟然将自己的小女儿萨瑞娜(海伦娜·伯翰·卡特 Helena Bonham Carter 饰)当做了最后的筹码。毫无意外地,斯坦福再一次地输了,走投无路的他在绝望中结束了自己的生命。 就这样,年轻美丽的萨瑞娜成为了荒淫无度的沃瑟姆勋爵(爱德华·福克斯 Edward Fox 饰)的所有物,可正当沃瑟姆得意之时,一位名叫沃肯(马库斯·吉尔伯特 Marcus Gilbert 饰)的英俊男子夺走了萨瑞娜并将她带回了自己城堡之中。城堡中居住的是沃肯的母亲哈雷德(黛安娜·里格 Diana Rigg 饰),贪婪的她利用城堡作为掩护经营着罪恶的勾当。一次偶然中,萨瑞娜撞破了哈雷德夫人的秘密,本就不喜欢萨瑞娜的哈雷德夫人开始设计企图除掉萨瑞娜。
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.