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Possession(2026)

Also known as Inheritance

Upcoming · Sky Atlantic

1 eps
S01
ThrillerMysterySupernatural
ON AIR: AUG 6Season 1

What to Expect

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Possession opens as a legal procedural, sharp and grounded in the mechanics of an inheritance dispute, then gradually pulls the floor away. Claudia arrives in Jamaica as a professional hired to win a case; the plantation at the center of that case, Hope Hill, is a place she already knows from her nightmares. The horror is slow and accumulative, built from the collision of courtroom logic and something that refuses to stay rational.

Claudia's recurring nightmares are not background texture; they are evidence, arriving before she has the language to read them. As she and Oliver dig into the estate's history, the brutality of the plantation past stops being historical record and starts pressing directly on the present dispute. A legal mind trained to organize facts is exactly the wrong tool for what Hope Hill demands of her, and watching that competence erode is where the psychological unease takes hold.

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Commitment

Season 1 · 1 episodes

Where

Sky Atlantic

Official Premise

Claudia, an ambitious young bi‑racial lawyer, travels to Jamaica to challenge an inheritance claim made by a local man, Cudjoe East, against Oliver Connaught, a wealthy white aristocrat. But the case takes an unsettling turn when Claudia discovers that the disputed estate is the very place that has haunted her nightmares: Hope Hill, the Connaught family's former plantation. As Claudia and Oliver dig deeper, they uncover a disturbing link between the plantation's brutal past and the injustices still shaping the present.

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