S1.E4 ∙ A Quiet Weekend in the Country

An account of early-1970s social activist Ira Einhorn, who murdered his girlfriend and then fled the country.

Serial killers have plagued the American landscape for decades, committing gruesome atrocities, and providing some tough cases for criminal investigators to crack. This thriller follows the travels of two detectives who are on the trail of a bizarre murderer intent on slaughtering his victims, then using them as real-life puppets in a tale that he is trying to tell. The plot holds a key to the whereabouts of the monstrous deviant, but the detectives have to unravel it quickly before more unsuspecting citizens become theater fodder for the unhinged madman.

At the end of the 1980s, three female friends share a house in Johannesburg, South Africa. Each has her own way to live with apartheid. Thoko is a Black teacher and practices non-violent passive-resistance. Aninka the Afrikaner takes refuge in archaeology to avoid reality. Sophie is a white militant who plants bombs in public places. Each respects the ideas of the other two, but one of Sophie's bombs will change everything.

A young Japanese ballet dancer comes to Moscow to study at the Bolshoy Theater, works hard, gets a titular role in Gisele and falls in love with the local sculptor. Then she gets a news that will change evrything...

Summertree, starring Michael Douglas and produced by his father Kirk Douglas, examines the Vietnam War and its consequences on the soldiers drafted to fight and the families they leave behind.

Tracie, a devoted wife and mother, lives every day in fear at the hands of her physically and emotionally abusive husband Gerald. She struggles with if she should stay for the sake of her children or if she should leave to save herself.