该剧根据同名经典黑色小说（noir novel）改编，由奥斯卡影后凯特·温丝莱特（Kate Winslet）主演。故事发生在美国经济大萧条时期，女主人公Mildred Pierce Beragon与失业的丈夫Bert（Brian F. O'Byrne）分了手，靠一份女服务员的工作维持生计。她一方面想维持自己的社会地位，另一方面又渴望独立和自由。在为生活奔忙的同时，她还要想尽一切办法赢得女儿Veda（Evan Rachel Wood）的爱与尊重。Guy Pearce扮演Mildred的情人，一个富有的花花公子。James LeGros扮演Bert以前的商业伙伴。Melissa Leo扮演Mildred的好友。Morgan Turner扮演童年时的Vada。 可以预见，明年金球奖和艾美奖与电视迷你剧有关的主要奖项都将归属这部剧集。 By 天涯小筑-donatino
本剧讲述警察﹑医护人员及消防员所面对的高压﹑可怕﹑震惊情景。这些应对紧急情况的人得平衡好自己，在帮助别人的同时，也得解决自己生活中的问题。
长今（李英爱 饰）出生在一个贱民家庭，他的父亲徐天寿原来当年曾是内禁卫军官，奉命赐予废太后允氏毒药，随后允氏的儿子燕山君登基继位，天寿为了保全自身，辞官而去。天寿在途中救了长今母亲，两人结为连理，隐姓埋名。岂料皇上燕山君如今欲为母报仇，下令追捕所有当年参与杀死允太后的人，长今母亲逃难路上不幸丧命，临终前嘱咐长今进宫。失去了父母的小长今幸得宫中熟手姜德久一家收留，并在他的安排下进入了宫中御厨房做工，开始了她漫长的宫中历程。 韩尚宫（梁美京 饰）非常照顾聪明好学的小长今，然而崔尚宫却因为与韩尚宫的不和而对长今处处刁难，每次在崔尚宫的设局陷害下，长今都以自己的蕙质兰心和坚持不懈一一化解，然而她母亲的身世秘密却逐渐浮出水面，还有更大的困难挡在长今的面前。
在里约热内卢， 一名拥有极大野心的毒贩艾文德卢和联绑探员莫里洛展开捕猎之战。
Almost a year has passed since Ellen Parsons left Hewes and Associates. She is now working in the District Attorney's office and is dealing with a fairly important drug case, trying to get a dealer to reveal the identity of his supplier. Patty Hewes is now acting on behalf of a group of investors trying to recover money they had entrusted to Louis Tobin and who, it turns out, was running a Ponzi scheme. With billions of dollars unaccounted for, Patty is trying to find any funds that may have been hidden by the Tobin family. Patty and Ellen have had no contact since her departure but Patty has been reluctant to re-assign her office, convinced that Ellen will return. She even sends her an expensive handbag. Ellen wants nothing to do with her however and when she thinks Patty may be interfering with her drug case, tells her she doesn't need any help. She also tells her that any secrets she may have are perfectly safe. In a flash-forward 6 months into the future, Patty Hewes is in a serious accident when another car broadsides her vehicle in an intersection. The occupant of the other vehicle has fled but it is registered to someone she knows.
