Three lives circle a single unsolved disappearance: a woman still shaped by a relationship with a violent man, a man trying to leave his own past behind, and a mother who won't stop looking for her daughter.
What is Tell Me Your Secrets about?
Tell Me Your Secrets follows Emma, who once loved a man later tied to a string of violent crimes, as she tries to build a new identity while investigators keep circling back to her. John, a man with a disturbing history of his own, is attempting something close to redemption, though nobody around him is inclined to trust it. Mary, meanwhile, has spent years refusing to give up the search for her missing daughter, and her path keeps crossing with both Emma and John in ways that pull all three further into each other's histories. Told across ten episodes, the series moves between these three perspectives rather than settling on one, using the gaps between what each character knows, admits and hides to build its tension. It's less concerned with a single mystery to solve than with what living alongside real harm does to the people left standing near it.
About the cast
Lily Rabe plays Emma with a guardedness that never fully drops, while Hamish Linklater brings an unsettling calm to John. Amy Brenneman gives Mary's grief a hard, procedural edge rather than pure sorrow, and the wider cast, including Enrique Murciano and Xavier Samuel, fills out the investigators and neighbors circling the three leads.
Context & significance
Creator Harriet Warner builds the show around perspective rather than plot twists alone, letting the same events look different depending on whose memory they pass through. That structure asks more patience of viewers than a straightforward procedural, trading quick answers for a slower accumulation of who each person actually is beneath what they've done or survived.
Watching Tell Me Your Secrets on Ktime
Tell Me Your Secrets is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Farsi subtitles, built into a catalogue designed for a comfortable Farsi-language experience for viewers outside Iran. Sign in with a free K-Time account to start the series from the first episode.