一次意外中，鲍威尔一家人所乘坐的飞机坠毁在了亚马逊丛林之中，奇迹般毫发未伤的一家人回到家中，却发现他们的生活因为这场事故而发生了彻底的改变。个性非常懦弱的吉姆（迈克尔·切克利斯 Michael Chiklis 饰）发现自己变得强壮无比，而吉姆的妻子史蒂芬妮（朱莉·本茨 Julie Benz 饰）则拥有了快如闪电的行动能力。
发生改变的并不仅仅只有鲍威尔先生和鲍威尔太太，他们的女儿戴芬妮（凯·帕娜贝克 Kay Panabaker 饰）成为了能够读懂他人心思的读心高手，一向反应迟缓笨头笨脑的儿子基基（吉米·本内特 Jimmy Bennett 饰）在智商上简直是突飞猛进。曾经的鲍威尔一家人在生活和情感上有着诸多的矛盾和缺陷，如今，各个身怀绝技的他们能否重拾家庭的幸福和快乐呢？
“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。
