Unspeakable

2019
TV-MA
Rating
Eligible
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Season 1 episodes (9)

1 Emergence
4/4/19
Extended Episode: The Sanders and the Landrys are shaken when they learn that a disease called AIDS is threatening the country's blood supply. Each family has boys with hemophilia, a genetic condition that means they depend on blood products to live.
2 Contraction (1983 - 1984)
4/5/19
Extended Episode: Will fights to get those in charge of blood safety to heed the danger; the Landrys struggle to keep their family together; Dr. Christos Tsoukas publishes a study on hemophiliacs.
3 Heat-Treatment (1984 - 1985)
4/11/19
Extended Episode: In 1985 Will Sanders questions why the Red Cross may still be distributing tainted blood when safe, heat-treated product is available. Margaret Sanders battles the prejudice surrounding AIDS. Lawrence Hartley and Paul Kirpatrick.
4 Unsafe (1985 - 1988)
4/12/19
Extended Episode: After seven people are infected due to a company's heat-treating process, Jim Krepke joins the fight. Will scores a victory. Ben seeks direction. Alice and Peter try to separate from each other.
5 Compensation (1988 - 1993)
4/18/19
Extended Episode: The Hemophilia Society works toward compensation for victims of tainted blood. Ryan suffers the side effects of hepatitis C treatment. Peter and Darby fall in love. Ben starts working on a more personal book.
6 Krever (1993 - 1996)
4/19/19
Extended Episode: Justice Horace leads an inquiry into the tainted blood scandal. Ben's quest for revenge intensifies. The people Krever intends to accuse take him to court.
7 Intent (1997 - 2005)
4/25/19
Extended Episode: The court rules in favor of Krever, and his report that gives names is released.
8 Apologies (2005 - 2015)
4/26/19
Extended Episode: Ben considers taking matters into his own hands. Peter and Ryan struggle with illness.
101 Trailer
3/25/19
Unspeakable chronicles the medical disaster that led to the emergence of HIV and Hepatitis C in Canada in the early 1980s through the perspectives of two families.

About this show

Based on the books "Bad Blood" by Vic Parsons and "The Gift" by Andre Picard, "Unspeakable" chronicles the early emergence of HIV and hepatitis C in Canada in the 1980s. Sarah Wayne Callies (The Walking Dead) stars as a whistleblower who exposes one of the largest medical disasters in history and the tragedy that resulted after thousands of people were infected by tainted blood.

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