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📊 Series Specifications
Network BBC Two
Episode Runtime ~60 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 6
Original Language EN
Desperate Romantics (2009)
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Ended Series Status:
This series has concluded and all seasons are available for tracking.
Synopsis
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.
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1 (Miniseries)
6 Episodes E1 Episode 1
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood look for a muse to inspire their best work yet.
E2 Episode 2
Millais sets to work on a masterpiece for art critic John Ruskin. Hunt is in turmoil.
E3 Episode 3
As his new patron, John Ruskin insists on Millais painting his young wife Effie.
E4 Episode 4
Returning from the Holy Land, Hunt asks Annie to marry him, unaware she has seduced Fred.
E5 Episode 5
Ruskin threatens to end his support unless Rossetti and Lizzie calm down and focus on art.
E6 Episode 6
Rossetti and Lizzie return from their honeymoon, and Hunt proposes to Annie Miller.