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Blood & Oil (2015)

Blood & Oil poster
Genre
soap opera
Country
United States
Length
1 season, 10 episodes
Rated
TV-PG
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 41 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young couple moves to a North Dakota town after a huge oil discovery. They try to build a new life but get tangled up with a powerful oil tycoon and his scheming family.

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What happens

Blood & Oil is an American prime time television soap opera created by Josh Pate and Rodes Fishburne, that premiered on ABC on September 27, 2015. The series follows a young couple that moves to fictitious Rock Springs, North Dakota, after the biggest oil discovery in American history. The series features an ensemble cast headed by Don Johnson as oil tycoon Harlan "Hap" Briggs. Blood & Oil also stars Amber Valletta as his catty socialite wife, Carla; Scott Michael Foster as his villainous son Wick; and Miranda Rae Mayo as his illegitimate biracial daughter Lacey who has an affair with Hap's personal driver, AJ Menendez (Adan Canto), who leads a triple life. Chace Crawford and Rebecca Rittenhouse play young couple Billy and Cody LeFever, while India de Beaufort plays bar owner/loan shark Jules Jackman, and Delroy Lindo plays a sly sheriff, Tip Harrison. The original order of 13 episodes was reduced to 10 on October 23, 2015. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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