In the early 20th century, a mysterious woman tutors a young girl in the arts of mind reading and clairvoyance. From the creator of The Control Group comes a story that is both a bittersweet coming-of-age story and a diabolical revenge thriller, bound together by cinematic sound design and an intoxicating tapestry of original and traditional music, providing a kaleidoscopic tour from street-corner medicine shows to vaudeville amusement halls of the era. All episodes available February 3rd.

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A mysterious woman, Rose (Minka Wiltz) assumes custody of a shy convent girl, Pearl (Elizabeth Hunter), and takes her from the idyllic valley into the ominous Steel City to meet her father. But in the course of the journey, Pearl begins to suspect that her custodian is not the loyal family servant she pretends to be.

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Rose (Minka Wiltz) instructs Pearl (Elizabeth Hunter) in the basics of mentalism, their means of financial survival. Under the stage name Pandora, Pearl performs a street-corner medicine show. Afterward, Rose reveals some of Pearl’s family history.

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Rose (Minka Wiltz) introduces Pearl (Elizabeth Hunter) to the power of charismatic religion in the tent revival of Sister Evangeline (Shelby Hofer), and afterward Rose reunites with a former accomplice, and tries to engage his services. Rose begins to reveal the true purpose of their collaboration: to confront an old enemy named Corbeau.

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Pearl (Elizabeth Hunter) enjoys success on the vaudeville stage, until a disruptive audience member (Troy Willis) attempts to derail the performance. This sparks the attention of two would-be benefactors: Harry Houdini (Andrew Benator) and a scientist performing psychical research: Albert von Schrenck-Notzing (Tim McDonough).

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A naive chorus-girl (Sarah Beth Hester) is recruited by fast-talking Bax (Rachel Frawley) to participate in one of Corbeau’s (Kevin Godley) secret rituals. Rose (Minka Wiltz) deepens Pearl’s (Elizabeth Hunter) education through the help of an amusement-pier fortune-teller, Agnes (Lisa Paulsen). A pair of young lovers suffer a shock during a midnight drive.

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Rose (Minka Wiltz) employs one form of sorcery to divine the identity of Albert’s secret benefactor, and another to extract personal information from a vulnerable servant girl, Olive (Alexandra Ficken).

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Performing a seance for a suspicious widow (Kelly O’Neal), Pearl (Elizabeth Hunter) is expected to conjure spirits and otherworldly substances while confined within a curtained booth, under Albert’s (Tim McDonough) watchful gaze.

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