When small time Irish hood, Shawn Murphy, goes to work for Lawrence, Massachusetts Mafia boss Sonny Pentola, he soon finds he might have gotten more than he bargained for. Shawn quickly earns rank and Sonny's trust when he saves Sonny from an assassination attempt. Sonny makes him a trusted liaison in a large development deal with Irish associates in Boston.

Set in 1895, show revolves around the opening of the first luxury hotel in New York City and all the intermingling of love, treachery, and disdain between the classes set against a backdrop of vicious family rivalries, scandalous secrets, and conflict and co-mingling of classes.

The unconventional life of Dr. William Marston, the Harvard psychologist and inventor who helped invent the modern lie detector test and co-created Wonder Woman in 1941.

Ted Kennedy's life and political career become derailed in the aftermath of a fatal car accident in 1969 that claims the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne.