3.558 minSeason 1 • Episode 5
LatestChristopher is sent to the Front with McKechnie and Perowne. While Valentine waits for news of Christopher, Sylvia - now ensconced at Groby - makes one final, desperate play for him.
The story of a love triangle between a conservative English aristocrat, his mean socialite wife and a young suffragette in the midst of World War I and a Europe on the brink of profound change.
Acting
Cumberbatch's repressed agony—every blink is a novel.
Costume
Hats so magnificent they deserve billing.
Writing
Tom Stoppard adapting Ford Madox Ford—dense, dazzling, devastating.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ford Madox Ford's original tetralogy was considered unfilmable for decades; Stoppard spent years cracking its fractured timeline.
The series aired months before Downton Abbey's peak, making it the darker, smarter cousin nobody watched—your hot take at parties.
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