该剧改编自真实事件。1988年12月21日，伦敦飞往纽约的泛美航空103号班机遭遇恐怖袭击，造成259名乘客和机组人员丧生，另有11名洛克比当地居民死亡。Jim Swire博士（科林·费尔斯 Colin Firth 饰）的女儿也在洛克比空难中遇难，他被提名为英国受害者家属的发言人，竭尽全力调查空难真相。
《怪诞第一季》剧情简介： Ryan Murphy dropped a teaser for a new series titled Grotesquerie in an Instagram post (see it below) on Friday. According to the post, it will star Niecy Nash-Betts — who has worked with Murphy several times before and is coming off an Emmy win for Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story — Courtney B. Vance and Lesley Manville and is set to premiere in the fall. The teaser features Nash-Betts’ voice, sounding very disturbed about a crime scene: “I don’t know when it started. I can’t put my finger on it. But it’s different now. There’s been a shift. It’s like something’s opening up in the world — a kind of hole to the center of nothingness. What I saw today — they sent shrinks for everyone who worked this crime scene. You think, ‘Well hon, evil has always existed,’ and cite some statistic about how the world’s getting better, less murder, more help, less global horror, never been a better time to be alive, honey.” Her voice cracking, Nash-Betts (or rather, her character) concludes by saying, “Come back. It’s not getting better. And I keep needing to hear your answers, because something’s happening around us, and nobody sees but me.”
