1942年，瓜达卡纳尔岛，美军陆战第1师占领了该岛上的日军机场，由此拉开了太平洋战争上的战略对日大反攻。三个美军海军陆战队士兵莱基、斯莱治和巴斯龙在太平洋上经历了二战时期最为惨烈的太平洋战争。在太平洋上，日本陆军骄横狂妄，对美军发起了猛烈的攻势，期间不乏使用自杀式的袭击。从惨烈的瓜达卡纳尔岛战役、格洛斯特角登陆战，及热带丛林战役，贝里琉岛争夺战，到硫磺岛战役直至冲绳岛战役。莱基（詹姆斯·贝吉·戴尔 James Badge Dale 饰）、斯莱治（约瑟夫·梅泽罗 Joseph Mazzello 饰）和巴斯龙（乔恩·塞达 Jon Seda 饰）见证了日军的负隅顽抗直至最后的溃败，也亲眼看到战友不断的在这惨烈的战斗中牺牲。作为最贵的二战美剧，HBO为此耗资2.23亿美元，这也是斯皮尔伯格与汤姆·汉克斯继《兄弟连》之后的再次联手。
“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。
