Part-time Deputy Toby Sawyer (Duke Nicholson) is jolted awake by Chief Krueger (William H. Macy) and assigned to guard a dead body until the coroner arrives. When the corpse mysteriously vanishes, Toby launches a frantic search and unwittingly discovers decades of wrongdoing…and several cops who have turned a blind eye, including Deputy Billy Banks (Stephen Dorff) who pressures Toby to ignore his findings. Only Deputy Amanda Jackson (Tiffany Haddish) appears trustworthy. Desperate to keep his job, Toby must unravel the town’s deep web of corruption before he and his career end up as dead as the missing cadaver.

该剧取材自自哥伦比亚女商人Griselda Blanco（索菲娅·维加拉 Sofía Vergara 饰）的真实人生故事，她不仅是一位全心全意的母亲，更是一手创建了史上最赚钱的贩毒集团之一。Griselda风采十足的外表之下暗藏狠辣手段，这让她得以兼顾家庭、叱吒商场，成为众所皆知的“黑寡妇/教母”。

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