A 2022 American Suspense Thriller Mini Series that has a young girl (Madeleine Arthur) escaping from a cult to a small town and causes problems for the family (Emily Deschanel, Sam Jaeger, Xaria Dotson, Alisha Newton, and Naomi Tan) that takes her in.
The series also features Gerardo Celasco, Bradley Stryker, Ty Wood, Tahmoh Penikett, Samantha Ferris, Marci T House, and Jason Sakaki.
It was released on Netflix on September 2, 2022.
Tropes for the series:
- Abusive Parents: offering your daughter as a human sacrifice is pretty bad parenting.
- Alliterative Title: By Blood.
- Cult: main heroine is hiding from one.
- Human Sacrifice: main heroine is supposed to be one.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: it's unclear what's the deal is with crows.
- One-Word Title:
- Sanctuary.
- Alight.
- Religion of Evil: praying to Satan and burning people when harvest is bad is normal.
- The Show of the Books: Based on Daria's book of the same name.
- So You Were Saying...?: In the first episode, when Peter comes home deflated from a bad work meeting, he prepares to tell Suzanne the news about their now dire financial situation. Before he can however, she gushes to him about how fortunate she feels to have him as a husband and how proud she is of his drive to strike out on his own in his own career. She then prompts him to share what he was going to say and he brushes it off.
