《玲珑心计》改编自索娜·沙赖波特拉和多妮尔·克莱顿所著书籍，以一所精英芭蕾舞学院为背景，记录了一群背井离乡的年轻人的起起落落，他们都身处于或成或败的边缘。亚契芭蕾学院是芝加哥唯一的一所精英舞蹈学校，也是该市著名的专业公司 City Works Ballet 的企业学校。亚契学院是各种舞者的绿洲：富人和穷人、北方人和南方人以及拥有不同背景的人。然而，他们所有人都拥有罕见的舞蹈才能和激情、忠诚的社区意识…并且在追求梦想的道路上，他们都没有退路。
“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。
