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From the outside, families seem like harmonious units in loving homes. But you don't necessarily know what secrets families are hiding from the outside world. Narrated by actress Brenda Strong, the voice of Desperate Housewives character Mary Alice Young, this series explores families hiding the most extreme of family secrets: murder. Each episode explores a death in a family, unravelling the motives of the family members, all of whom are potential suspects - and potential victims.
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Blood Relatives premiered June 7, 2012. We don't have a confirmed streaming, rental or purchase option yet.
From the outside, families seem like harmonious units in loving homes. But you don't necessarily know what secrets families are hiding from the outside world. Narrated by actress Brenda Strong, the voice of Desperate Housewives character Mary Alice Young, this series explores families hiding the most extreme of family secrets: murder. Each episode explores a death in a family, unravelling the motives of the family members, all of whom are potential suspects - and potential victims.
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Episode 1
In the Houston heat, a lawyer and his large family enjoy the high life. One member gets too greedy, tough, and sparks a multi-generational war that ends in murder. It takes an entire police force, and one sleuth to uncover the shocking truth.
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Episode 2
Mountainous Salt Lake City is where two brothers call home. Their airline cleaning business once overflowing with cash is now steadily failing. With eyes dead set on living the high life, once person in the family will be worth more dead than alive.
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Episode 3
An unconventional family is dragged into the headlines after one of their own is brutally murdered in rural Beaver Dams, NY. When police realize it is an inside job, mothers, fathers and brothers turn against each other in search for truth.
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Episode 4
In upscale Exeter, NH, one family endures divorce, murdered pets and multiple suicide attempts. But only when a shallow woodland grave unearths a body do residents of this quiet town realize a truly sadistic mastermind is in their midst.
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Episode 5
Chesapeake, VA, is home to a tight-knit, religious family. At a glance, they look perfect, two beautiful daughters and a successful business, but this family is torn apart when one of them washes up along the banks of the Great Dismal Swamp.
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Episode 6
In the desert oasis of Tucson, AZ, a beautiful young family's quick climb up the corporate ladder has them flush with cash. But soon, deceit and a cold-blooded murder will turn this family's dream into a nightmare.
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Episode 7
Orinda, CA, has been voted one of America's friendliest towns. The history books are rewritten though when one family's war of words turns deadly. Finger-pointing and shocking revelations will stun not just the town, but the entire nation.
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Episode 8
California's Central Valley is one of "America's breadbaskets", but what is being harvested for one family are greed, lust, and murder. Financial issues and an unwanted pregnancy push one family member over the edge, and another into an early grave.
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Episode 9
The rocky Cape Cod coastline is bathed in blood after one family's fight for a fortune turns deadly. The investigation uncovers liars, cheaters, and even imposters on the dark path toward finding a killer in this modern day Greek tragedy.
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Episode 10
A NASA contractor and his beautiful wife are living the dream with their three adopted children on the picturesque Maryland coast. Traditional parenting soon turns into military-style punishment and when the children start fighting back only a few members remain.
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Episode 11
A couple of recent empty-nesters are finally able to enjoy the fruits of decades of labor. Old vices come home to roost when one of the children doesn't quite make it on their own; arguing escalates to deadly violence.
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Episode 12
A farming family in Texas is so revered by the community that the entire town is named after them. But when several relatives want to start doing business differently, infighting and backstabbing lead to more than one death.
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Episode 13
In Dallas, TX, one couple's love story has brought together a large blended family. Personal and professional lives intertwine in harmony until jealousy and greed prove that one family member's true colors include blood red.
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