Description: A selection of popular TV series (from 2000 to present) inspired by or based on books.
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Dangerous Liaisons
( 2022 )
Dangerous Liaisons follows the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, two narcissistic rivals and ex-lovers who use seduction to control and exploit others. It explores the world of the French aristocracy shortly before the French revolution. The series will tell the origin story of the early years of both characters when they meet as passionate young lovers in the slums of 18th century Paris.
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Ä°ntikam
( 2013 )
Intikam is the Turkish version of the ABC TV series Revenge. Yagmur Ozden moves to a yali (Bosphorus mansion) at a rich neighborhood on the shore of the Bosphorus in Istanbul. Her real name is Derin Celik. Her father, Adil was framed for a crime he didn't commit and sent to prison. Derin was sent to an orphanage and believed that her father was guilty. Adil wanted her daughter to learn the truth and kept a diary to be given to her. Derin learned the truth about her father when she was 18. But it was too late. He died in jail as an innocent man. Derin comes to her childhood neighborhood with a different identity to seek revenge against the people who betrayed her father.
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All The Queens' Men
( 2020 )
Behind every great Drag Queen, there stands a handsome husband. Join Latrice Royale's better half, Christopher, as he hosts this weekly series of what it's like to be a husband to a Queen from RuPaul's Drag Race. Featuring two new guest husbands each week, this series will share stories from the romantic royal relationships while learning what it is like to be the King to such a fabulous Queen.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo will not be a sequel or continuation of the story from the books or the films into which they were adapted. It will instead take Salander and place her in today's world with a wholly new setting, new characters, and a new story.
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Detention
( 2020 )
Detention starts at Greenwood High School in the 1990s. Yunxiang Liu, a transfer student, steps into the forbidden area on the campus by accident, where she encounters the ghost of Ruixin Fang. Fang later unveils the hidden history and trauma over the past 30 years, and how a group of young students and teachers were persecuted as they fought for freedom in the era of censorship. Their stories keep coming back to the school like haunting nightmares, waiting to be told and revealed. Â
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
It is 1962: the height of the Cold War and only months after the building of the Berlin Wall. Alex Leamas is a hard-working, hard-drinking British intelligence officer whose East Berlin network is in tatters. His agents are either on the run or dead, victims of the ruthlessly efficient East German counter-intelligence officer Hans-Dieter Mundt. Leamas is recalled to London – where, to his surprise, he's offered a chance at revenge. But to get it, he may have to stay out in the cold a little longer…
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Sin Senos SĂ Hay ParaĂso
( 2016 )
Sin Senos Si Hay Paraiso season two picks up after older Catalina (Carmen Villalobos), who everyone believed to be dead for many years, returns. With the help and support of secret agents, Catalina, now an anti-narcotics agent herself, captures and extradites La Diabla to the United States. La Diabla manages to evade authorities and flees to Colombia. Now, Catalina and La Diabla, once inseparable friends, face off as mortal enemies.
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ĂśberWeihnachten
( 2020 )
Unlucky at cards - and then also unlucky in love. For Basti things get really tough in the festive season: his career as a musician is not crowned with success and the prospect of having to celebrate a rather depressing Christmas after separating from his girlfriend Fine pulls the general mood down even more. A visit over the holidays to meet his family promises a welcome distraction - but when his brother Niklas suddenly appears with ex Fine at his side, Basti even loses the last bit of hope for a happy future.
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Ondskan
( 2023 )
Ondskan will revolve around a troubled young man, Erik, who gets expelled from his school in Stockholm due to his violent behavior. He gets transferred to the boarding school Stjernsberg, where the violence is worse than at home. While there, he engages in a forbidden love relationship with a kitchen staff member, Marja.
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Les Misérables
( 2000 )
Set against the background of the French Revolution and based on Victor Hugo's classic novel this is the story of Jean Valjean who is sent to prison for stealing a loaf of bread and is released after nineteen years. He meets and cares for a beautiful but poverty-stricken young girl named Fantine who has daughter Cosette. After Fantine's death Valjean brings Cosette up but he is haunted by Javert - a policeman whose search for Valjean has become an obsession.
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Havenfall
Havenfall chronicles the story of Maddie, who returns to a place from her youth for the summer: a mysterious hotel called Havenfall Inn, nestled in the Rockies overlooking a sleepy Colorado town. A place which, unbeknownst to the world, contains portals leading to different fantastical realms. Havenfall has also long-served as a neutral territory that links these realms, but that peaceful status is disrupted by a shocking murder that will force Maddie to confront dark truths about her family.
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Behzat Ç. Bir Ankara Polisiyesi
( 2010 )
Behzat Ç. is a detective in the Ankara Police Department. He is the head of a unit of six people: Harun, Hayalet, Akbaba, Selim, Cevdet and Eda. They usually work together with the public prosecuter Esra. They chase criminals with perseverance and solve murders and other crimes that occur in Ankara. Behzat Ç. graduated from the Police academy in 1985. He does not care much about his superiors -not even laws in some cases; he only follows his inner conscience. This often brings him troubles: Even though he graduated from the Police Academy many years ago, he is still stuck in the same position for years unlike his colleagues who are at the peak of their career, because of numerous suspensions and reprimands he got. After an unsuccessful marriage, he is not confident with women. The only woman he seems to care about is his daughter Berna.
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Eva the Owlet
( 2023 )
Eva the Owlet stars Eva, a creative, cheeky owlet who lives next door to her best friend Lucy in the woodland world of Treetopington. With big ideas and an even bigger personality, Eva goes on high-flying adventures, expressing herself in her journal along the way!
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Little House on the Prairie
( 2005 )
Little House on the Prairie is a 2005 family western miniseries It is a six-part adaptation of children's novels Little House in the Big Woods (1932) and Little House on the Prairie (1935) by Laura Ingalls Wilder. The series was broadcast on ABC as part of The Wonderful World of Disney anthology series.
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Peter Rabbit
( 2012 )
Peter Rabbit is a fictional anthropomorphic character in various children's stories by Beatrix Potter. He first appeared in The Tale of Peter Rabbit in 1902 and subsequently in five more books between 1904 and 1912. Spinoff merchandise includes dishes, wallpaper, and dolls. He appears as a character in a number of adaptations. Nick Jr. brings treasured literary icon Peter Rabbit to life with the new CG-animated preschool series, Peter Rabbit. The series is a fresh re-imagining of the popular Beatrix Potter children's books based on Peter Rabbit. Peter Rabbit features educational goals that encourage preschoolers to learn problem-solving and interpersonal skills, self-efficacy, resilience, positive re-framing and fostering an interest in and respect for nature.
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Little Lunch
( 2014 )
A mockumentary children's comedy series about what happens in the primary school playground at snack time, told through the eyes of six children. Based on the books written by Danny Katz and illustrated by Mitch Vane. Adapted for television by Robyn Butler and Wayne Hope.
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Trust
Trust is about a wealthy financier who is dissatisfied by a novel based on his life and his wife's portrayal, so he asks a secretary to ghostwrite his memoir and set the record straight. The secretary, however, grows uncomfortably aware that he is rewriting history—and his wife's place in it. Told in four different voices and genres, Trust is a narrative puzzle that subverts the notion of truth and who gets to define it.
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Emily's Reasons Why Not
( 2006 )
Emily Sanders has many things going for her. She's young, single, has terrific friends and a great job in publishing. In fact, she's got the hottest selling book in town. Unfortunately, she's just closed the chapter on her relationship with the roguishly handsome, two-timing author. Based on the bestselling novel of one successful single woman's search for love, this smart and stylish comedy explores life, love and sex in the city from an independent woman's point of view.
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The Cleaners
The Cleaners tells how, in the near future, inanimate objects carry the memories of people's experiences, and a certain number of the population have the ability to relive those memories by touch. Cleaners are specialists hired to sanitize the objects and relieve emotional burdens these memories may hold. At the center of this story is a young man who inherits his family's cleaning business, and takes on a mysterious new commission.
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Gadis Kretek
( 2023 )
A son's journey to find a woman from his father's past unearths a tapestry of secrets — and the untold history of their family's clove cigarette dynasty.
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The Three-Body Problem
the series doesn't have a name yet, "The Three-Body Problem" is a name of the booknot allowed per policy
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Felix Ever After
TV adaptation of the novel by Kacen Callender by the same name, Felix Ever After tells the story of a transgender teen grappling with identity and self-discovery while falling in love for the first time.
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The Perfect Couple
The Perfect Couple follows Amelia Sacks, a bride marrying into one of Nantucket's wealthiest families. The groom's mother Greer Garrison Winbury, a famous novelist, spares no expense on the high-society wedding. But, when a dead body appears on the beach, everyone's Champagne dreams quickly vanish and are replaced by suspicion. As secrets bubble up to the surface, an investigation takes hold that feels plucked from one of Greer's books.
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Ninth House
Ninth House is set at an alternate Yale, where the secret societies guard dangerous, magical secrets and ghosts haunt the campus.
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My Lady Jane
( 2024 )
Adaptation of the YA historical fiction novels about an irreverent young Tudor woman who dreads her arranged marriage, only to be surprised when it results in a steamy romance, her being crowned Queen and a heroic mission to save the magical people persecuted by her political rivals
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Blanca
( 2021 )
After losing her sight at the age of twelve, Blanca is one step away from fulfilling her lifelong dream: working in the police force. But once she arrives at the police station for an internship, she comes up against everyone's distrust. Thanks to the skills that she has developed over the years, however, and the help of her dog Linnaeus, she reveals Blanca as a detective with a different and effective "look". Based on the novels by Patrizia Rinaldi, "Blanca" is the first television series in the world shot in holophony, a special sound recording technique that allows you to be in the protagonist's place: hear how she hears and reconstructs the world.
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Joan
Joan is inspired by the true story of notorious jewel thief, Joan Hannington.
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Gormenghast
The series follows the inhabitants of Castle Gormenghast, a sprawling, decaying, gothic-like structure with a raft of characters including Titus, the heir to the throne of the House of Groan, scheming kitchen boy Steerpike and twin sisters Cora and Clarice.
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Frog and Toad
( 2023 )
Frog is a frog. Toad is a toad. They have a lot in common … but they are also very different. Frog and Toad are best friends who know that the true secret to friendship is not only enjoying the things you have in common, but embracing the things that make you different. Our differences are what makes us special, and Frog and Toad celebrate them in what makes them unique.
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Dawn
An African-American woman works with aliens to resurrect the human race 250 years after a nuclear war.
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The Inheritance Games
In The Inheritance Games, when an eccentric billionaire dies and leaves his fortune to a teenage girl he's never met, the world—and his relatives—are obsessed with figuring out why.
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The Spook Who Sat by the Door
The Spook Who Sat by the Door tells at the fictional story of Dan Freeman, who has just been hired as the only Black operative in the CIA. He is a patriot, a Vietnam vet, and secretly, a Black Revolutionary.
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A Time for Mercy
Dupe of https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/54185/time-for-mercy
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Humsafar
( 2011 )
Sara and Ashar are childhood friends who share the same status, Sara has always had strong emotions for Ashar; while Khirad lives with her mother in a two bedroom apartment. Ashar and Khirad are forced into a marriage due to desperate circumstances. Khirad is a proud and self-sufficient person and does not give importance to wealth and power, she only hopes for respect. Ashar believes that he would have married a girl equal to his stature but was forced into a loveless marriage. Slowly their relationship gets stronger and the two find common grounds to begin their marriage. Along with internal struggles between these two strong characters; Sara and those around her plot to create enmity between the newly married couple.
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Deadtown
No updates since original press release in 2018Â
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Olga Dies Dreaming
Olga Dies Dreaming is the story of a Nuyorican brother and sister from a gentrifying Sunset Park, Brooklyn, reckoning with the absent, politically radical mother and their glittering careers among New York City's elite in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
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The Wives
The Wives is a gripping, saucy, female-driven thriller featuring "Thursday," a woman who is passionately in love with her husband Seth — even though he has two other wives. Seth reserves Thursdays for her and splits the rest of the week between the other two women and work. She's never met the other wives. She doesn't know anything about them. But when curiosity gets the best of her, and she strikes up a relationship with Seth's youngest wife, she'll be forced to ask herself: Who exactly is her husband, and how far will she go to find out the truth?
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Lady in the Lake
Lady in the Lake takes place in '60s Baltimore, where an unsolved murder pushes housewife and mother Maddie Schwartz to reinvent her life as an investigative journalist and sets her on a collision course with Cleo Sherwood, a hard-working woman juggling motherhood, many jobs and a passionate commitment to advancing Baltimore's Black progressive agenda.
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Hoops
Never Happened
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The Talisman
The Talisman follows a 12-year old boy named Jack Sawyer who sets off on an epic road-trip quest in order to save his dying mother's life. He is in search of the Talisman, a powerful relic that can not only heal his mother but, as he learns, save the world. Sawyer's journey crisscrosses two realities: the America we know and its dangerous, fantasy-world twin, The Territories.
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On Children
( 2018 )
These uncanny tales reveal a world where individuals face the tragic consequences of social pressure, parental oppression and family dysfunction.
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Anansi Boys
Anansi Boys follows Charlie Nancy, a young man who is used to being embarrassed by his estranged father. But when his father dies, Charlie discovers that his father was Anansi: trickster god of stories. And he learns that he has a brother. Now his brother, Spider, is entering Charlie's life, determined to make it more interesting but making it a lot more dangerous.
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Bad Monkey
Bad Monkey tells the story of Andrew Yancy, a one-time detective demoted to restaurant inspector in Southern Florida. A severed arm found by a tourist out fishing pulls Yancy into the world of greed and corruption that decimates the land and environment in both Florida and the Bahamas. And yes, there's a monkey.
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Oona Out of Order
Oona Out of Order revolves round Oona Lockhart, who at the strike of midnight on her nineteenth birthday wakes to find she is the surprise new inhabitant of her 55-year-old body. Where did her life disappear to? Stunned and terrified, Oona grapples with what feels like a catastrophic universal mistake until her following birthday when it happens again – then again and again, without explanation. As Oona leaps from year to year, living her life out of order, she strives to find her way back to her youth and her first boyfriend.
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Exciting Times
Exciting Times centers on Ava. Ava is an Irish transplant abroad teaching English grammar to wealthy children, who becomes entangled in a love triangle with banker Julian and lawyer Edith.
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Seven Deadly Sins
( 2021 )
Seven Deadly Sins is based on books from the Seven Deadly Sins anthology by Victoria Christopher Murray.
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Firekeeper's Daughter
Firekeeper's Daughter follows an 18-year-old Native girl as she reluctantly goes undercover in a police investigation on her Ojibwe reservation.
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Diablo Guardián
( 2018 )
Based on Xavier Velasco's award-winning novel, Diablo Guardián tells the story of Violetta, a young woman who flees her native Mexico to start anew in New York City. But instead of living a dream, Violetta is awoken to a harsh reality when she runs out of money, sending her into the arms of the villainous Nefastófeles.
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Muumilaakso
( 2019 )
A journey into the magical world of Moominvalley, an idyllic place where the Moomins live in harmony with nature. Join Moomintroll in this whimsical coming of age story of family and friendship.
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Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win
An idealistic Charlotte Walsh leaves her job as a high-powered Silicon
Valley executive to move back with her husband and three daughters to
her downtrodden Pennsylvania hometown so that she can run for Senate in a
midterm election that will decide the balance of power in Congress. She
is initially shocked at how nasty her opponent is willing to play in
the campaign, and how harshly she is judged by the media. She also sees
that the strain wears heavily on her family. When a secret is uncovered
by the opposition that could jeopardize her candidacy and everything she
holds dear, Charlotte is forced to measure that cost against her
ambition to make a difference.
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Ringworld
Ringworld is based on Larry Niven's science fiction book series from the 1970s and tells the story of Louis Gridley Wu, a bored man celebrating his 200th birthday in a technologically advanced, future Earth. Upon being offered one of the open positions on a voyage, he joins a young woman and two aliens to explore Ringworld, the remote artificial ring beyond "Known Space." The books cover their thrilling journey as they attempt to fulfill their original mission to uncover the mysteries of Ring.
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Get Millie Black
Get Millie Back is Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James' first work for the screen. An epic crime thriller and a vivid, blistering slice of contemporary exotic noir driven by a truly iconic woman, the formidable Millie Black.
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All Our Wrong Todays
All Our Wrong Todays tells the story of Tom Barren, who lives in a world where technology has solved all of humanity's problems — there's no war, no poverty, no under-ripe avocadoes. However, Tom isn't happy, because he's lost the girl of his dreams. So, what do you do when you're heartbroken and have a time machine? You end up in an alternate reality, obviously.
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Fariña
( 2018 )
Set in coastal Northwestern Spain of 1979 and framed by the 1990 true-to-fact razzia of almost the entire Galician drug cartel, Farinia - Snow in Galicia portrays the rise to power of Sito from right-hand man to the local cigarette smuggling racket's godfather to when he takes the reins into his own hands while local head of police Enrique LeĂłn watches his every step from a distance, preparing for just the right moment to make his move.
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Selection Day
( 2018 )
Selection Day is based on the novel of the same name by best-selling author Aravind Adiga, which revolves around cricket and corruption. It's a coming of age story about Manju Kumar, one of a pair of young brothers raised by a cricket-obsessed father and aiming to be selected into Mumbai's under-19 team. When 14-year-old Manju, who also has a penchant for scientific facts, gets to know his brother's great rival, everything in his life begins to change and he is faced with decisions that will alter his sense of self and of the world around him.
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The Lincoln Lawyer
not going forward https://deadline.com/2020/05/the-lincoln-lawyer-drama-series-david-e-kelley-not-going-forward-dead-cbs-1202924365/
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Dune: Prophecy
Set in the universe of Frank Herbert's epic Dune novel series, Dune: Prophecy is told through the eyes of a mysterious order of women known as the Bene Gesserit. Given extraordinary abilities by their mastery of the body and the mind, the Bene Gesserit expertly weave through the feudal politics and intrigue of The Imperium, pursuing plans of their own that will ultimately lead them to the enigmatic planet Arrakis, known to its inhabitants as Dune.
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Alias J.J.
( 2017 )
As the MedellĂn Cartel crumbles, Pablo Escobar's No. 1 hit man struggles to stay alive and gain respect in the prison hierarchy.
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Presumed Innocent
( 2024 )
The story of a horrific murder that upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorney's Office when one of its own is suspected of the crime. An exploration of obsession, sex, politics, and the power and limits of love, as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.
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Jenni Rivera: Mariposa de Barrio
( 2017 )
Jenni Rivera: Mariposa de Barrio or simply Mariposa de Barrio, is an American biographical telenovela based on the autobiography Unbreakable: My Story, My Way authored by Jenni Rivera before her death and was published posthumously in July 2013. It stars Angélica Celaya as the titular character, and it started airing on American broadcast channel Telemundo on June 27, 2017. The inspiring and poignant story will follow in the footsteps of Jenni Rivera towards a dream of fame; An autobiographical journey from birth, based on her book "Unbreakable", as well as unpublished testimonies that reveal, as never before, her own family and explore her life as a daughter, mother, wife, lover and artist.
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darklighter1 : Contains spoilers. Click to show. Good show. Watched season 2 and 3 back to back after giving up on season one and was surpr...