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Spinal Destination
Episode 3
Tempers flare between residents. Tessa is suspicious about things going on at home.
Episode 1
Tessa Rivers is a go-getter with a busy life and loving family. When a mysterious illness leaves her paralysed, Tessa is sent to Goldfield’s Spinal Unit where she must learn to navigate the new version of herself that she has suddenly become. With the help of her alter-ego ‘Walking Tessa’, Tessa becomes determined to walk again, by any means necessary.
Episode 1
Season 1 Episode 1 | 22m 34s | CC
Tessa Rivers, a successful journalist, finds herself paralyzed from the waist down after a mysterious illness. Sent to the Goldfield’s Spinal Unit, she’s reluctantly introduced to its residents and staff - including Todd, the eccentric unit psychologist. Also in attendance: her alter-ego Walking Tessa, a sardonic hallucination of her past-self that only she’s able to see.
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