THE FAMILY NAME is a premium family saga and political thriller set at the intersection of Manhattan legacy wealth, public service, and modern influence operations.

Max Sterling is the revered CEO of a century-old real estate dynasty, racing to complete Sterling Tower — the family’s signature skyscraper, known as The Torch — while a quiet financial hemorrhage begins to surface. His mother-in-law Robin Winthrop sees the bleeding first. His daughter and general counsel Tess Sterling sees the pattern: security and risk invoices that look less like compliance and more like camouflage.

Layered on top of this is FEND — a splashy public-private initiative to combat the fentanyl epidemic. Max is Chair. New York AG Naomi Adler is Vice Chair. Gubernatorial liaison Lila Carrington keeps the machinery moving. What looks like civic leadership is also a corridor for access, procurement leverage, and quiet pressure.

The fixer at the center of it all is Silas Kersey — self-described “expeditor,” suspicious reach into both government and private systems, and a vendor relationship with Integral Solutions that demands vague retainers, escalating invoices, and minimal documentation. Tess wants scope, deliverables, and audit trails. Her brother Heath, the ambitious COO, wants speed. He overrides the controls. Silas gets in.

Lender conditions tighten — then mysteriously evaporate. Work stoppages appear pre-solved. Assessments are paid and never delivered. The CFO goes missing. Tess’s investigation starts pointing inward.

Meanwhile Celeste Sterling, Max’s elegant and ruthless wife, runs her own intelligence operation through surveillance-by-staff — mapping who speaks to whom, what’s being brokered, which relationships are being engineered. At the FEND fundraiser in the family ballroom, the mask slips. Donors treat politics as a transaction. Silas is openly unwelcome and completely untouchable.

By the end of the pilot, a hidden encrypted file labeled “Vale” suggests Max has been carrying secrets with real political stakes. The question is no longer whether the Sterlings are being used. It’s whether they can stop the machine before it fully absorbs the family name.

Succession-era family warfare meets government-adjacent intrigue — where every public good comes with private terms.

A multigenerational, interfaith family converges on a Vermont ski chalet to celebrate a new marriage. Before anyone unpacks, they discover the chalet was secretly rented to strangers who vanished and left behind their dog with a note that just says — enjoy her. So now there’s a dog.

Benjamin, the groom, is a newly converted Jew doing his earnest best. His wife Talia is strong-willed and not interested in pretending the kosher thing is up for debate. His older brother Scott shows up with unresolved everything. Charlotte, the aunt, tries to fix the mood through jokes and blunt honesty, which helps and doesn’t.

First explosion: Shoshana, Talia’s older sister, is pregnant. Scott is the father. Scott immediately proposes — out loud, in front of everyone — turning a private, terrifying moment into a family-wide spectacle. Shoshana is furious. Everyone else reacts through their own stuff.

Dinner makes it worse. Benjamin announces kosher. The Meltzer parents announce they’re moving to Israel. The table becomes a generational argument about fear, memory, and whether the kids are paying enough attention to history. Nobody wins.

On the mountain, Shoshana gets cornered by Barry — an entitled rabbi’s son and her other entanglement — who tries to take over completely. Scott, Rachel, and Alan race up to intervene. They get unexpected help from Charlotte, who has been coming to Killington for years not to ski but to quietly date Julie, the gondola manager.

At the peak lodge, Shoshana shuts Barry down publicly. Scott proposes again — sincerely this time. She says yes.

They rush home with good news. Anne tells them she has advanced breast cancer.

Everything clicks. The chalet, the gift, the desperate need to get everyone in one place — it all makes sense. Anne doesn’t collapse. She decides to keep the dog. She tells Benjamin his achievements were never the point. Just him.

By Sunday, Rachel and Alan cancel the Israel move and buy Scott’s Connecticut listing instead. Everyone ends up closer — literally and otherwise.

Snow falls. Faith stays. The family sits down together.

All downhill from here. Completely worth the ride.

When a massive flood throws small-town prosecutor and volunteer firefighter Jefferson Jackson Smith into the spotlight, he’s celebrated as a hero. Twenty-four hours later, he’s something else entirely: the newly appointed United States Senator from Illinois.

Dropped into Washington with no prep and no agenda, Jeff is immediately swallowed by the machine. Staff he didn’t pick, an apartment he didn’t choose, a bill he’s expected to support. The smiling power brokers around him insist it’s all standard procedure, but Jeff can feel the trap tightening. HR 66 isn’t harmless legislation. It’s a constitutional time bomb, and he’s the vote that makes it possible.

As the pressure campaign escalates, Jeff must decide whether to play along or become the one thing Washington never expects: honest. What begins as a feel-good appointment becomes a high-stakes battle for truth, integrity, and the soul of American democracy.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington reimagines the classic story for a modern political landscape, where doing the right thing is no longer naïve — it’s revolutionary.

New York City, 2048, and the cast of The Parables find themselves all living in the one place miraculously untouched by the nuclear holocaust of twenty years prior; or so it would seem. The post-apocolyptic population is divided by those who believe human advancement lies in combining humans and technology physically, and those who believe the future lies in unlocking the secret power humans have from within. A terrorist attack by extremists of the former distract a shocking return of FEMA AI, who had been lying dormant for twenty years, hiding in plain sight at the Museum of Modern Art. Using former hero Leo as a host, a rematch between FEMA AI and newly-empowered Eva raises the stakes for all humanity throughout time-space itself, this time with everything, and everyone at stake.

Baby Grace is abducted from the hospital and taken by her diabolical great-grandmother to a mysterious estate called Greystone, where strange events suggest the estate is haunted and hiding dark secrets about her captors. While her mother Lily enlists the help of familiar characters from around the world to find her, the phenomena begins to spread, becoming increasingly unpredictable and dangerous, leading to a deadly confrontation at Greystone that changes everything.

A Young Professional, newly arrived in the 2001 Post 9/11 New York City, is manipulated by his abusive boss at a top financial firm, leading to a tragic accident that is mistakenly ruled a suicide. Despite his career skyrocketing, his guilt and inner turmoil spiral, pushing him towards a breaking point as he grapples with the consequences of his actions and the dark secrets surrounding the event.

In a near-future Omaha, Nebraska, Nile.com workers Eva, Lily, John, AJ, Leo, and Eli face the relentless threat of AI replacing their jobs. Just as they contemplate unionizing to reclaim their future, an apocalyptic event turns their world upside down. In the ensuing chaos, they are thrust into a desperate struggle for survival. Amid the digital dusk, they embark on a gripping journey toward hope and redemption, where every choice can mean life or death.