Trinity: The Complete First Season

A mix of drama, raunchy college comedy, and shadowy conspiracy thriller, this 2009 British series is set at an exclusive, Cambridge-like British university where children of the rich and powerful lord it over the scholarship students—and members of a centuries-old Dandelion Club are experimented upon by a faceless cabal for reasons never revealed. The young adults here are involved in plenty of romantic entanglements and sexual hook-ups—including relationships across the battle lines of class—while the adults struggle over control of the administration, with the imperious dean, Edmund Maltravers (Charles Dance), shielding the Dandelion Club from the progressive new college warden, Angela Donne (Claire Skinner), who is determined to end the system of elite privilege and protected bad behavior. Trinity ran for only a single season, ending before anything about the experiments or the shadowy group behind them was revealed. Compiling all eight episodes from 2009, extras include behind-the-scenes featurettes. Optional, at best. (S. Axmaker)