本劇以日本泡沫經(jīng)濟前夕1984年的澀谷為背景，描繪了那些笨拙卻拼命生活的年輕人們的苦惱、挫折與戀愛故事。故事為三谷幸喜原創(chuàng)，融入了他自身半自傳式的元素。菅田將暉飾演青年戲劇人久部三成，二階堂富美飾演舞者幸田莉香，神木隆之介飾演廣播編劇蓬萊省吾，濱邊美波飾演巫女江頭樹里。

　　Lewis returns to Oxford after several years absence and is reluctantly assigned by his new boss, DCS Innocent, to the murder of an Oxford mathematics student who was shot while participating in a sleep study. The key-code used to access the sleep lab was assigned to a fellow maths student, Daniel Griffin, but Daniel's math tutor has provided him with an alibi. Daniel is a maladjusted young man who will soon inherit his father's automotive empire. He is disruptive and has no respect for his uncle who now heads the company. The future of the company however rests on an impending deal with Japanese investors who insist that family unity is all important at this time. When two other murder occurs, Lewis must decipher a cryptic clue left in an old case file by his former boss, Chief Inspector Morse.

　　該劇是英劇《摩斯探長》的續(xù)篇，于2006-2015年在ITV播出，共九季33集，每集約90分鐘，其中從2013年的第七季開始每集在ITV1首播時被拆分為上下兩部分連續(xù)兩周播出，然而在重播時以及在美國PBS電視臺播出時依舊作為整集播出。該劇將背景設(shè)置在學(xué)術(shù)氣息濃郁的牛津，劇中很多含有隱喻的詼諧對白在外國文學(xué)愛好者看來會別有趣味，同時延續(xù)摩斯系列側(cè)重通過案件展示各色人生和命運悲劇的特色，兇手被揭露后通常會有一幕對手戲?qū)⒚芡浦粮叱保瑝m埃落定后緩和而帶有希望的片尾曲又形成鮮明映襯，讓人感嘆命運無常及人的渺小，同時又看到光明的希望。該劇多位編劇也曾參與ITV版大偵探波洛和馬普爾小姐系列劇的改編。