Red Widow

2013 • ABC
3.8
483 reviews
TV-14
Rating
Eligible
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Season 1 episodes (8)

1 Pilot
3/3/13
Marta's loving husband is brutally murdered.
2 The Contact
3/3/13
Crime boss Nicholae Schiller tells Marta she must import drugs.
3 The Consignment
10/3/13
Crucial details of Marta's illegal drug shipment change at the last minute.
4 The Escape
17/3/13
Mike stages a robbery of his own house in hope of paying off his debts.
5 The Recorder
24/3/13
Marta wears a wire to a meeting with Schiller in hope of building a case.
6 The Captive
31/3/13
Marta fears the worst when Natalie goes missing.
7 The Coke
28/4/13
Marta learns new information about Natalie's kidnapper and her husband's murder.
8 The Hit
5/5/13
Convinced that Schiller murdered her husband, Marta asks for help with a revenge plot.

About this show

Marta Walraven seems to have an idyllic life. A stay-at-home mom in tony Marin County, just north of San Francisco, she is devoted to her three children and her husband. Behind this perfect façade, however, is a more complicated story: Evan, Marta's husband, supports the family by exporting marijuana. Marta is familiar with the world of organized crime: her father, Andrei Petrov, and his loyal bodyguard, Luther, are Bratva -- Russian gangsters -- in San Francisco. It's a world from which she and her sister Kat always wanted to escape, though they never quite did.

But when Evan is brutally murdered in their driveway, everything changes. Marta's first concern is to protect her children -- and yet when FBI Agent James Ramos promises Marta justice in exchange for her cooperation, she cannot go against the Bratva code. She refuses his help.

Slowly, the truth about her husband's murder begins to emerge: Evan's business partners -- Marta's scheming brother, Irwin Petrov, and their best friend, the hapless Mike Tomlin -- were involved in the theft of millions of dollars of cocaine from the formidable international crime boss, Nicholae Schiller. Evan paid with his life, but as far as Schiller is concerned, his debt is not clear. It falls to Marta, as Evan's widow, to navigate the criminal underworld in order to repay this debt -- in whatever way Schiller sees fit.

Hounded by the FBI on the one hand and by Schiller on the other, while also trying to raise three grieving kids on her own, Marta discovers a tenacity she never knew she had. As she hunts for the truth about her husband's death and struggles to keep her children safe, she'll rely on her resourcefulness, determination and her Bratva DNA like never before. But just how far is Marta willing to go in order to beat her adversaries at their own deadly game?

Ratings and reviews

3.8
483 reviews
R L Macasieb
23 February 2013
This offering is on the front page of the Android Market (who would call it the play store, that's just stupid). It doesn't work, it gets low scores. Life is kinda fair like that sometimes. If ABC doesn't like it, they should publish their content in in a single place. Not so sure I'm sticking around for another 2 years. I spent a lot of money on these folks. They will most likely enhance something that is not broken so that this review gets broken or obfuscated. The review box is broken, seriously?
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Phil Wise
26 February 2013
They need to stop advertising these tv shows, that have free episodes, on the mobile Google play store when you can't "buy" them or watch them. Its ridiculous. And no, rating this down will not get the show canceled, a bad show gets canceled. Which after watching this on my tv... this is a bad show. Its like they ran out of ideas. Or at least ideas that don't make you cringe in agony.
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Lashae L
23 March 2013
The synopsis of this show sounds great, but they somehow don't live up to the potential. The writers never make you care about any of the characters, and the husband was in the show for such a short amount to of time that we never felt any kind of grief when he was killed. The views didn't get a chance to feel any kind of connection before we were all of a sudden supposed feel sympathy for them. The main character, Marta, is so cold and her delivery seems forced.
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