Netflix’s ‘Bloodline’, a new series from the makers of ‘Damages’, is a story of buried secrets and ambiguously motivated crime set against the backdrop of a close-knit family that reaches a breaking point after gathering to celebrate a pier being named after the parents.

As per Bloodline’s makers in the series, a prodigal son returns to his family’s resort in the Florida Keys and things go wrong after that.

On one hand ‘Damages’ was intensely serialized within seasons, ‘Bloodline’ on the other very skillfully portrays family tragedy.

Each season of ‘Damages’ was largely a reboot, bringing in a handful of big name supporting actors to play along with Glenn Close and Rose Byrne.

FX chief John Landgraf admitted that it was quite hard show for the network to handle and maintain, because viewers could not jump in between a season.

‘Damages’ was a show designed for binge-viewing and anthology storytelling at a time when being a binge-favorite would get you cancelled by FX and shuffled off to DirecTV.

Sources said creators of ‘Damages’ Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler and Daniel Zelman didn't know it at the time, but they were already making a show that was designed for Netflix.

So it was not surprising that the makers of ‘Damages’ made Netflix the home for their new drama ‘Bloodline’.

The oddly packed cast of the new series ‘Bloodline’ includes Kyle Chandler, Linda Cardellini, Norbert Leo Butz, Ben Mendelsohn, Sissy Spacek and Sam Shepard.

Netflix, which releases all 13 episodes of the first season today, has given shows the comfort of not having to ferry viewers from act to act and from one week to the next.