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6 Episodes 1989 - 1989
Episode 1
Sat, Jun 10, 198926 mins
Niles Talbot lives for the hum of the chair. When the law turns soft, he finds himself adrift in a world that fears his proximity to the grave. He cannot stomach the sight of the guilty walking free on technicalities. He clings to the belief that he is the only honest man left. He stalks a murderous socialite and his lover, ignoring their pleas for mercy or bribes. He chooses the terminal surge over currency. This arrogance becomes his defining vice; he believes he is the law rather than its instrument. The cost is a swift descent into the very cage he once guarded, where the system waits to reclaim its most loyal servant.
Episode 2
Sat, Jun 10, 198922 mins
Elizabeth kills her husband in a sudden, cold move, already thinking two steps ahead. She plans a clean exit, but the night turns hostile fast. A killer in a Santa suit prowls outside, tightening the circle. Panic cracks her control. She pivots, choosing deceit over escape, staging a narrative to save herself. Each move traps her deeper. Her fear sharpens, yet her greed keeps steering the wheel. The house becomes a pressure box. Every sound threatens exposure. She doubles down, gambling everything on one final lie as danger climbs the walls.
Episode 3
Sat, Jun 10, 198928 mins
Ulric drifts through life as a disposable ghost until a surgeon offers him biological godhood. He trades his humanity for a feline's resilience; an exchange fueled by a desperate need for validation and wealth. His arrogance swells with every public execution as he treats mortality like a cheap stage trick. This vanity becomes his defining vice; he calculates his survival with cold precision while treating others as secondary props. The moral pivot occurs when he eliminates his benefactor to seize total control. Ultimately, his greed blinds him to a fundamental mathematical error regarding the source of his power. He pays the ultimate price when he realizes his tally is one life short.
Episode 4
Wed, Jun 14, 198927 mins
Sylvia moves through her world with sharp control, using beauty as currency and weapon. When a pawnbroker offers her money in exchange for her face, she accepts without hesitation, seeing only leverage, not consequence. The deal funds a fast climb into luxury and access, where she attaches herself to a wealthy man who treats her like an ideal rather than a person. As time passes, her body begins to deteriorate at a terrifying pace. Panic replaces confidence. The pawned beauty becomes a debt she cannot outrun, and every attempt to reclaim stability only tightens the trap.
Episode 5
Wed, Jun 21, 198929 mins
Charles targets a wealthy, naive mark to secure a lifetime of unearned luxury. He plays the doting newlywed, steering his bride into a secluded, stormy honeymoon to mask his contempt. A blocked road forces them into a vacant estate where isolation strips away his patience. The catalyst strikes when the atmosphere shifts from eerie shelter to an aggressive sexual awakening, fueling Charles with false confidence. Faced with an unsettling vision of the past, his greed collides with a terrifying psychological trap. To survive, Charles resorts to cruel honesty, using his defining vice of naked opportunism as a weapon. His confession fails to shatter her delusion, leaving him defenseless against a brutal family tradition.
Episode 6
Wed, Jun 28, 198927 mins
Jonas walks out of forty years of labor with a cheap ceremony prize and nowhere to pour his anger. Home feels hostile from the start. Anita fills every silence with pets, routines, and sugary affection that makes him feel obsolete. He lashes out at the house, the garden, and anything soft enough to absorb his frustration. Small humiliations pile up. Animal food lands on his plate. Television mocks him with endless nature programs. Roy tries steering him toward harmless hobbies, but Jonas grabs onto taxidermy with cold enthusiasm. Soon the basement becomes a private kingdom of control, and Anita realizes too late what kind of retirement her husband has truly chosen.