After a bomb destroys a railway carriage, the four survivors repair to the villa of one, Mrs. Delahunty, a writer of romance novels, a woman with a past. The others are an aging British general, a young German man, and Aimee, an American girl orphaned in the blast. As these four strangers recover in Umbria's countryside and become friends, Aimee's uncle, a cold and childless academic who studies red carpenter ants, arrives to fetch her. Mrs. Delahunty fears this may not be in Aimee's best interests, begins to drink heavily, and fails in her attempts to connect with Aimee's uncle. Meanwhile, a persistent detective investigates the blast. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>

　　该剧由本·门德尔森主演，聚焦一个11岁男孩被强奸、杀害和分尸的惨案，看似直白的案情却生出疑窦，超自然力量作怪：　　俄克拉何马州小城弗林特，警探Ralph Anderson当着一群人的面逮捕了很受欢迎的老师兼少年棒球联赛教练Terry Maitland，指控他奸杀了一个男孩，并将其分尸。Maitland坚称自己无辜，但Anderson有目击者和确凿的证据(DNA和指纹)证明他有罪。　　地方检察官告诉Anderson，要打破Maitland的不在场证明，把一场本来会是旷日持久的法庭斗争变成情节一目了然的直白案件。而Anderson却意外发现：不仅有多名目击证人声称当凶杀案发生时Maitland并不在城里，安全录像也证实了这一点。　　在私家侦探Holly Gibney(金另一本小说《梅赛德斯先生》的角色)的帮助下，Anderson开始深入调查此案，线索指引两人来到了德克萨斯州的玛丽斯维尔镇，并得到墨西哥裔警官Yune Sablo、居住在拉丁裔为主小镇上的白人女性Lovie Ann Bolton协助。他们发现面临着一个真正的怪物的威胁……小说前半段风格为警察办案，后半段恐怖、超自然元素加剧。

一个充满希望的团队被困在一个功能失调、荒谬、地狱般的超级英雄系列电影制作中，如果他们最终成功了，他们必须面对的问题是——这是好莱坞的新曙光，还是电影的背水一战？这是梦工厂还是化工厂？

　　一个充满希望的团队被困在一个功能失调、荒谬、地狱般的超级英雄系列电影制作中，如果他们最终成功了，他们必须面对的问题是——这是好莱坞的新曙光，还是电影的背水一战？这是梦工厂还是化工厂？

　　Ryan Murphy dropped a teaser for a new series titled Grotesquerie in an Instagram post (see it below) on Friday. According to the post, it will star Niecy Nash-Betts — who has worked with Murphy several times before and is coming off an Emmy win for Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story — Courtney B. Vance and Lesley Manville and is set to premiere in the fall.　　The teaser features Nash-Betts’ voice, sounding very disturbed about a crime scene: “I don’t know when it started. I can’t put my finger on it. But it’s different now. There’s been a shift. It’s like something’s opening up in the world — a kind of hole to the center of nothingness. What I saw today — they sent shrinks for everyone who worked this crime scene. You think, ‘Well hon, evil has always existed,’ and cite some statistic about how the world’s getting better, less murder, more help, less global horror, never been a better time to be alive, honey.”　　Her voice cracking, Nash-Betts (or rather, her character) concludes by saying, “Come back. It’s not getting better. And I keep needing to hear your answers, because something’s happening around us, and nobody sees but me.”