Alison e Mike, um jovem casal sem dinheiro e lutando para comprar sua primeira casa, pensam que suas orações são respondidas quando um parente distante os deixa uma propriedade extensa. No entanto, a casa antiga é assombrada.
Um cínico professor da Ivy League perde o trabalho dos seus sonhos e vai trabalhar como um professor de biologia do ensino médio, onde impõe seu estilo de ensino pouco ortodoxo e usa as crianças para planejar sua vingança contra aqueles que o prejudicaram.
Ted, a successful but morally conscious man, runs a research and development department at a morally questionable corporation, Veridian Technologies. No achievement is too far fetched and no invention too unorthodox for Veridian. Ted loves his seemingly perfect job; he loves his superhuman boss, Veronica, and colleagues Lem, Phil and Linda, but he's starting to take a closer look at the company's extremely questionable practices... especially when they try to cryogenically freeze one of Ted's scientists for testing purposes.
In a blue-collar community where the high stress of working in a refinery is balanced by the comedic high-wire antics of its plant workers, The Trades centres around pipefitter Todd and his sister and roommate, Audrey, who follows in her big brother’s footsteps pursuing a career in the trades as a carpenter, just like their father Rod.