社区大学“格林德尔”迎来了新学期，由Jeff（乔尔·麦克哈尔 Joel McHale 饰）领导的七人学习小组一同选修了生物课，却因为选课限制，小组成员之一的Pierce被排除在外，这件事很快就引起了小组的分化危机。然而等着他们七人的是更大的危机：格林德尔学院的经费被切断，学校陷入了一贫如洗的境地。为了节约经费，院长让疑似患有精神病的昌担任保安，埋下了一颗危险的炸弹。 与此同时，好基友Troy和Abed终于宣布同居，小组成员一同来到他们的新居作客，Jeff却无意中创造了“六个独立的平行空间”，在六个不同的空间里，七人有着截然不同的命运。这究竟是Abed的幻想，还是真实的存在？
“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。
