Desperate Romantics (2009)

Name: Desperate Romantics
Genre: Drama
Cast: Aidan Turner, Rafe Spall, Tom Hollander, Samuel Barnett, Sam Crane

★ 7.4 60m/ep Drama Latest: S1 E06

Six-part drama series set in and among the alleys, galleries and flesh-houses of 19th-century industrial London, following the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a vagabond group of English painters, poets and critics.

Cast: Aidan Turner, Rafe Spall, Tom Hollander, Samuel Barnett, Sam Crane, Zoë Tapper, Amy Manson, Jennie Jacques
First aired: July 21, 2009

Seasons

Miniseries · 6 episodes

Miniseries Episodes

1. Episode 1
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood look for a muse to inspire their best work yet.
2. Episode 2
Millais sets to work on a masterpiece for art critic John Ruskin. Hunt is in turmoil.
3. Episode 3
As his new patron, John Ruskin insists on Millais painting his young wife Effie.
4. Episode 4
Returning from the Holy Land, Hunt asks Annie to marry him, unaware she has seduced Fred.
5. Episode 5
Ruskin threatens to end his support unless Rossetti and Lizzie calm down and focus on art.
6. Episode 6
Rossetti and Lizzie return from their honeymoon, and Hunt proposes to Annie Miller.