Season 1 • Episode 4
LatestAfter a string of tragedies, Titus must finally confront the scheming Steerpike and determine where his own destiny lies.
At the Castle of Gormenghast, the Groan family has ruled with dusty ceremony for more than seventy generations. A clever and ambitious new kitchen boy, Steerpike, begins to insinuate himself into the affections of Lady Fuchsia Groan and to murder his way to power.
Production
Sets so detailed you can practically taste the dust.
Acting
Jonathan Rhys Meyers' serpentine charisma is genuinely unsettling.
Costume
Every outfit screams decaying privilege—magnificent grotesquerie.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mervyn Peake wrote the novels while dying of Parkinson's, leaving the saga forever incomplete—this adaptation captures only Books One and Two.
Peake's visual imagination as an artist shaped every grotesque detail; he literally painted Gormenghast before writing it.
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