故事发生在高科技产业云集的美国硅谷,在这里,最有资质成功的人往往却是最没有办法处理其“功成名就”的人,本剧主人公理查德(托马斯·米德勒蒂奇 Thomas Middleditch 饰)正是这样的人。 故事围绕着包括理查德在内的四个不善社交但绝顶聪明的计算机程序员,以及早期依靠互联网站发家的百万富翁埃利希(托德·约瑟夫·米勒 T.J. Miller 饰)。理查德他们免费住在埃利希那个号称“孵化器”的别墅里,自行研究开发有潜力的科技项目。他们原以为理查德开发的“魔笛手”注定是个失败的产品,岂料其运用的新型压缩算法具有无穷的商业潜力,当即引起大公司“互利”的注意,要高价收购。正当理查德要同意时,另一家投资公司加入争夺,“魔笛手”一时间水涨船高,一场价值千万的争夺战开始了。
“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。