构思源自同名纪录片，这部医务剧以全美最忙碌，名声也最不堪的洛杉矶县医院的急症室为故事背景。一群医术精湛的医生尽管受制于落后的制度，但他们仍为理想、为病人努力奋斗。

改编自 Robyn Carr 小说的《维琴河》。讲述女主 Melinda Monroe 来到加州偏远小镇维琴河当护士，她认为这处是开展新生活、丢下痛苦回忆的好地方。不过她发现小镇生活没其预料般简单，如果 Melinda 真心希望以维琴河为家，她得自己振作起来。

Brooklyn-based Ella Richards does freelance work as a seamstress to pay the bills, but is also a struggling fashion designer, her talent which her friend Max, who often gets her her sewing work, can see. She specializes in designs for plus sized women such as herself in knowing that the high end fashion industry largely ignores this majority segment of the population in she herself having felt that exclusion all her life. Katie, her best friend and roommate, has her own fashion industry aspirations in wanting to be a fashion editor, although she admits the environment at Look, the high end fashion magazine where she works as an assistant, is not a pleasant one in the Editor-in-Chief Claudia Davenport and her assistant Liza, Katie's boss, treating people in general, including staff, like garbage unless it otherwise serves their needs. The first day that Ella helps Katie with an important fashion shoot at the magazine coincides with Derek Colby's first day there, Colby Publishing, his father Roger Colby's company, the magazine's parent company, assigning him to deal with the magazine's declining revenues, both in advertising and subscriptions, work he has done with other magazines under the Colby banner. Derek secretly asks Ella for a crash course in fashion design to assist in this task at the magazine, she his choice of teacher due to her knowledge of fashion in general, and she seemingly not being intimidated by him which most people tend to be in being a Colby in combination with his good looks resulting in he placing number seven of the most eligible bachelors in New York City. In spending time with Ella, Derek can see the revenue potential of the magazine expanding into the plus sized market and seemingly starts to fall for her in the process in wanting to do one of the first articles in this vein on her design career, much against the wishes of both Claudia and Liza. Beyond whether Derek is able to change the magazine's fortunes with this new direction, what happens between Ella and Derek will depend on whether Ella herself is confident enough in herself and Derek, who generally can have any woman he wants on his arm.—Huggo

在小镇居民的心目中，由史蒂夫（大卫·杜楚尼 David Duchovny 饰）和凯特（黛咪·摩尔 Demi Moore 饰）组成的琼斯家堪称模范家庭的典范。史蒂夫温文尔雅，做着一份收入颇丰的工作，却还有足够的时间来满足自己的兴趣；凯特漂亮端庄，无论是穿着还是行为，无疑都引领着整个小镇的时尚。每个人都希望能够成为琼斯先生和琼斯太太，每个人又都绝望的发现，无论自己如何的向他们靠拢，都永远无法赶上他们奔向幸福的脚步。 　　然而，对于史蒂夫和凯特来说，生活又是另一番模样，关于这个家庭的秘密让两人永远都无法心安理得的享受生活的美好，同时，充沛的物质条件无法弥补情感上的苍白裂缝，这个外人眼中的模范家庭已然濒临崩溃。

Newly engaged Asha Singh and Jake O'Brien are excited to spend Christmas together, but their relationship is tested when their families' cultural and holiday traditions clash.