Written by six of Britain's finest writers (including Fay Weldon, Antonia Fraser, and Michael Robson), performed by leading actors, these are no ordinary tales of mystery and suspense. Each has its own twist, ranging from the darkly humorous to the truly macabre.
Nusantara is a place full of mystical spirits and the supernatural. Each episode has a unique solution depending on the type of disturbance, the type of genie and the effect on the main character.
Safehaven follows Jenna Frost, a fierce, complicated high school comic book artist who must fight to uncover hidden truths after horrifying visions from her drawings come to life-threatening everyone around her. John Rayburn, the mysterious new school counselor determined to save her, even if it endangers both of their lives, and unearths his own personal demons. Complicating matters is Will, a passionate young man committed to protecting Jenna, who finds herself torn between rejecting his help and her growing feelings for him.
This is an ancient style chamber escaping reality show which the celebrity guests are to use their wits to pass each checkpoint and also whether they show good teamwork or working together against the opposing team.
Single mother Yi-an raises her fraternal twin daughters, Cassy and Lily, alone. Cassy is sweet and likable, driving Yi-an’s successful influencer career. Lily, with a cleft lip, is shy and often overlooked. As Yi-an’s popularity dwindles, she orchestrates a “Cassy is missing” plot to regain attention, much to Lily’s dismay. The relationship between the mother and daughter faces its greatest challenge yet.
Twelve girls wake up in a secluded mansion, without knowing how or why they got there. As they realize they are locked in, the situation in the house threatens to escalate. But the mansion also harbours a dark secret. The girls are part of a medical experiment and if they don’t manage to escape they will die, one by one.
Commander Adam Dalgliesh is consulted by one of his literary heroes when Peverell Press staff fall victim to a rash of hate mail. When the body of an editor is discovered and another member of the venerable firm is found dead soon after, Dalgliesh and his team—Detective Inspectors Kate Miskin and Daniel Aron—turn to the past to track down a murderer who seems prepared to kill and kill again.
An adaptation of the novel 813, in which the gentleman burglar competes to steal state papers and tries to uncover the identity of a terrifying murderer.
Set in modern day Aotearoa, Literally Dead follows True–the most iconic bitch you’ve ever met. She’s beautiful, smart, charming, and sharp, but on the cusp of graduating from high school, she died in a tragic accident (note: it wasn’t an accident). Our story takes place entirely on the night of True’s graduation party, as her ghost presents her circle of friends and frenemies, we discover her death was the least fucked up thing that happened that year at Gilchrist Grammar.
Teenagers are getting raped. A gang who calls themselves 16 is hurting seemingly innocent people. Police want to hunt the rapist. They also want to stop the vigilantes who have chosen to take the law into their hands.
The corpse of a fruit farmer is found in a meadow orchard. It was buried upside down, draped like a scarecrow. The spectacular staging of the murder leads Commissioner Maris Bächle and her colleague Konrad Diener to suspect a personal motive. While the black asylum seeker is quickly suspected as a perpetrator, the Freudenstadt inhabitants speculate behind closed doors about the involvement of earth spirits - of course, just for fun. However, when Konrad Diener's introverted 14-year-old son disappears without a trace in the forest during a school trip and reappears completely changed, but refuses to give any information about his whereabouts, Maris remembers how she was found in the forest as an 8-year-old. She had mysteriously survived there. With the help of the city archivist, the two investigators come across an old legend about forest spirits and an old place of execution in the middle of the forest. The forest court once met in this mystical place. Apparently it is active again.
A father-son birdwatching outing becomes a widespread mystery when teenage John Corby—after coming to the aid of neighbour Susan Fraser—finds that his father Tom has vanished.