Unspeakable - Season 1 - Eps 1: Emergence (1982 – 1983)
In 1982, two families, the Sanders and the Landrys, are badly shaken when they learn that a mysterious deadly disease called AIDS is threatening the blood system. Each has boys with hemophilia, a genetic condition that means they depend on blood products to live. The medical community struggles to understand the growing epidemic while others deny the urgency.
About Unspeakable
Title: Unspeakable
First Air Date: 2019-01-09
Last Air Date: 2019-02-27
Status: Ended
Rating: 6.3/10 (from 7 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 1
Total Episodes: 8
Network: CBC Television
Genres: Drama
Production Companies: Mezo Entertainment
Synopsis
In the early 1980s, AIDS emerged and quickly became an epidemic. Those responsible for public safety failed. People were kept in the dark, afraid to speak out. Ignorance, arrogance, politics and economics all lead to betrayal, to cover-up, to scandal. Unspeakable is told from the perspective of two families caught in a tragedy that gripped a nation, as well as the doctors, nurses, corporations and bureaucracy responsible.
Cast
Camille Sullivan
Alice Landry
Michael Shanks
Will Sanders
Sarah Wayne Callies
Margaret Sanders
Shawn Doyle
Ben Landry
David James Lewis
Lawrence Hartley
Caroline Cave
Ann O'Malley