《谎言堂 House of Lies》演员Kristen Bell和《网络犯罪调查 CSI Cyber》演员Ted Danson将参演Mike Schur创作的NBC直接预订成剧的13集喜剧《Good Place》。 Bell在本剧中的出演并不意味着她将离开Showtime的喜剧,相反正是因为她在《谎言堂 House of Lies》中的精彩演出才让她有机会出演本剧,因此她并不会顾此失彼。 而Danson早在去年夏天就表示,如果有时间的话他非常有兴趣尝试出演一部半小时的喜剧,刚好这时候《Good Place》找到了他,他也从众多剧本中挑出了这一部出演。 本剧讲述了Eleanor(Bell饰),一个来自新泽西州的女人,突然一天意识到她自己不是个好人;因此她决定开启她生活的新篇章以学习如何才是真正的 “好”和“坏”,从而弥补她自认为过去不好的行为。Danson将饰演Michael,在各种机缘巧合下,成为了Eleanor为自己设计的自我完善的道路上的导师。
“In the early 1990s, at the height of the international war on drugs, the government agency in charge of Britain’s borders, Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise, realized that they were losing the battle against drug smuggling. Their solution was extraordinary,” reads the logline. “In a top-secret operation, a small team of British Customs employees were sent undercover. Their task – to infiltrate Britain’s most dangerous drug gangs.” “They were not trained spies. These were ordinary men and women, plucked from ordinary lives around the U.K, put through a basic training regime then told to build new identities in the criminal underworld. These identities were called Legends.
改编自维克托·拉瓦列2013年的小说《The Devil in Silver》。聚焦搬运工人Pepper(丹·史蒂文斯 Dan Stevens 饰),因为坏运气和坏脾气,他被送到了一所名为New Hyde的精神病院,里面满是被社会遗忘的人。Pepper想要获得自由,就必须面对与他作 对的病人、怀着阴森目的的医生,甚至恶魔本人。这里是地狱般的地方,任何事情都不是表面那样,Pepper必须直接面对一个以New Hyde里人们的苦痛来蓬勃壮大的存在,但这样可能会证明:最可怕的恶魔恰恰是他自己。