Season 1 • Episode 8
LatestDanny makes plans to leave, but in order to convince his family to come, he has to tell them everything. Meanwhile, Mark's involvement with Brenda and Jezebel leads to him discovering what brought them to Meadowlands in the first place. David, Evelyn and Danny have one final confrontation before the entire truth is revealed.
Their lives in danger, Danny and Evelyn Brogan enter the witness protection program and are moved, with their teenage twins Zoe and Mark, to Meadowlands, a seemingly idyllic and perfectly manicured community. Their initial sense of well-being is shaken, however, by the dawning realization that most of their new neighbors are harboring dark secrets of their own, and only Danny's case supervisor, Samantha, is holding all the cards. The Brogans quickly realize that they may have left their old problems behind, but a whole new kind of sinister trouble lies in wait as they start their new lives together.
Acting
David Morrissey's weathered desperation anchors every scene.
Production
Meadowlands itself: too-perfect suburbia as uncanny valley.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Canceled after one season—showrunner Robert Murphy later admitted they burned through three seasons of plot in eight episodes.
Premiered when British TV was desperate for its own 'Desperate Housewives'; instead it became a cautionary tale about pace.
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