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Catherine (Roth) discovers a leadership seminar called NXIVM and invites her daughter, India (Polish), to attend it with her. While there, they meet the charismatic Keith Raniere (Facinelli). But Catherine soon begins to feel that something is amiss with the group. Unfortunately, India doesn’t catch on as fast and becomes swept up in the cult.

Based on the memoir, Saving Alex, Trapped tells the story of a gay 15-year-old named Alex Cooper (Holley). After coming out to her Mormon parents, they place her into conversion therapy in Utah against her will. Alex is trapped there for eight months with strangers (Booth and Lake).

This true story is about high school teacher Mary Stauffer (Hannigan) who is held captive for more than fifty days by a student. She is trapped along with her daughter, Beth (Hoskins).

Caroline (Miller) and Bethany (Kirshner) are both incredibly wealthy women obsessed with getting their teenage kids into the best universities. They are introduced to a man named Rick Singer (Shanks), a scam artist that seemingly offers them the opportunity of a lifetime.

In the summer of 1998, Gloria Williams (Niecy Nash), reeling from a recent miscarriage, drove from her home in South Carolina and walked into a Jacksonville, Florida hospital posing as a nurse and took newborn Kamiyah Mobley (Rayven Ferrell) out of her mother Shanara Mobley's (Ta'Rhonda Jones) arms. By the time police were alerted, Gloria was long gone. Renaming the baby Alexis, Gloria raised her as her own, providing her with unconditional love and nurturing. It wasn't until years later, when Alexis applied for her first job and couldn't provide a social security card or a birth certificate, that she realized something was wrong.

When Chris Watts (Sean Kleier) tearfully pleaded to television cameras for the safe return of his missing pregnant wife Shanann (Ashley Williams) and their two young daughters, dark secrets loomed just beneath the surface. As the story spread, hearts went out to the distraught father and husband, who appeared to lead a charmed life. But days later, after failing a lie detector test, Chris confessed to brutally murdering his family and slowly revealed the horrific details of their deaths.

Stacey Castor (Nia Vardalos) weathered the storm of her first husband's death and managed to find love again with her boss, David (Mike Dopud). But when David is discovered dead of an apparent suicide, the police suspect some foul play, as David's death mimics that of Stacey's first husband.

When upbeat, outgoing Karen (Jamie-Lynn Sigler), her husband Scott and their young son relocate to Washington for Scott's job, Karen looks forward to starting a new life. She soon meets Lisa (Jenn Lyon), her beautiful charming neighbor and quickly bond. But Lisa soon starts lying to Karen, and about Karen to others...

Amy Thompson (Lyndsy Fonseca) is a vibrant law student in Charlotte who is attacked and raped by Demetri (Hunter Burke), a friend of a friend she met once. Discovering that she is pregnant from the rape, Amy makes the difficult decision to keep her baby, despite the fact that Demetri continues to stalk and harass her as she waits for the long-delayed trial.