Blood and Water: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

The one thing Josephine "Jo" Bradley knows is that she is a good cop. She's ambitious and tough (or thinks she is) and has just been assigned her first big case as Lead Detective following her recent promotion in Vancouver's Homicide Division. Born in China and abandoned by a family she never knew, Jo was adopted as a toddler and relocated to Vancouver. Raised by a single mother, a Professor of Sinology, Jo wanted for nothing growing up. But, much to her mother's chagrin, Jo chose policing as a career. When Charles Xie, the son of a prominent real estate developer, goes missing and his body is found ritualistically buried, Jo is assigned the case. It happens on one of the worse days of her life following a cancer diagnosis and an imminent and difficult decision about treatment. But Jo will need to put the personal aside when she goes head-to-head with the wealthy and privileged Xie family, led by the tyrannical and powerful patriarch, Li-Rong Xie. Risking her career, Jo will be forced to tear the family apart and reveal long held secrets in order to solve the murder of their troubled middle son. The cat-and-mouse game she plays to fracture the Xie family will also leave Jo broken and searching for her own identity and the meaning of family.

Series details

• Title: Blood and Water
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery
• Premiere date: 2015-11-08
• Status in TVmaze: Running
• Network listed by TVmaze: OMNI
• Network country: Canada
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 7/10
• TVMaze ID: 7919
• IMDb ID: tt4474750
• TVDB ID: 302923

Cast and credited roles

• Steph Song — Detective Josephine 'Jo' Bradley
• Elfina Luk — Anna Xie
• Fiona Fu — Weiran Xie
• Loretta Yu — Teresa Fai
• Peter Outerbridge — Detective Al Gorski
• Simu Liu — Paul Xie
• Oscar Hsu — Li-Rong 'Ron' Xie
• Osric Chau — Charles Xie
• Russell Yuen — Lt. David Chu
• Maria Ricossa — Colleen Bradley
• Owen Kwong — Wu Guanjing
• Byron Mann — Evan Ong

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2015-11-08; final listed air date 2015-12-20; episode order: 8.
• Season 2: premiered 2016-11-13; final listed air date 2017-01-15; episode order: 8.
• Season 3: premiered 2021-06-13; final listed air date 2021-08-01; episode order: 8.

Source and licence

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