So, picture this: it’s 1950s New York, and there’s a guy named Marty Mauser. He sells shoes to pay the bills but really lives for ping-pong. He’s all jazzed up about making it big in table tennis, though he gets sidetracked by gambling way too often...
1961. At the bedside of Woody Guthrie, a dying folk singer, a young man from Minnesota, Robert Zimmerman, shows up, calling himself Bob Dylan. Woody and his friend Pete Seeger hear him play and realize they are dealing with a rare talent. Dylan quickly makes his way into the New York scene of Greenwich Village and becomes a folk artist revered for his ability to combine innate musicality with protest themes that reject the establishment. He becomes romantically involved with Sylvie Russo, but cheats on her with Joan Baez, another talented figure on the folk scene. This ends in 1965, the year of his “electric” turn, when Dylan plays with a rock band and abandons his politically charged lyrics in favor of a surreal lyricism somewhere between Rimbaud and Dylan Thomas...
Picture a really old piece of land, and on it, there’s this house. Over the years, tons of families have lived there—from early humans to settlers to a modern African-American family...
Blake’s a guy from San Francisco with a wife, Charlotte, and their young daughter, Ginger. Out of the blue, he inherits the house he grew up in back in Oregon after his dad, who’s possibly gone missing or worse, might have passed away...
Romy has a lot on her plate. She’s running a big company in New York while trying to juggle life as a mom and wife. Her husband, Jacob, is nothing like her. He’s a creative theater director, completely wrapped up in his artistic world, far away from the fast-paced corporate life Romy leads. Their marriage seems fine on the surface, but for Romy, something’s missing...
Justin Kemp’s got a lot going on. He’s a guy with a rough past dealing with booze, but now he’s trying to get it together because he and his wife are expecting their little girl soon...
Sixteen years after Marcus Aurelius’s death, Rome’s in a bad spot, ruled by the nasty brother duo Geta and Caracalla. In rolls this mysterious prisoner named Hanno from Numidia. He’s brought over with a bunch of slaves, but everyone soon realizes he’s got some serious fighting skills. A guy named Macrinus, who’s really trying to climb the Empire ranks, picks him to be a gladiator...
The Wicked Witch of the West is gone, and everyone in Oz is all about celebrating. Even Glinda, who’s known as the Good Witch, gets involved in a rather flashy way...