
Desperate Romantics
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.
Episodes

Episode 1
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood look for a muse to inspire their best work yet.

Episode 2
Millais sets to work on a masterpiece for art critic John Ruskin. Hunt is in turmoil.

Episode 3
As his new patron, John Ruskin insists on Millais painting his young wife Effie.

Episode 4
Returning from the Holy Land, Hunt asks Annie to marry him, unaware she has seduced Fred.

Episode 5
Ruskin threatens to end his support unless Rossetti and Lizzie calm down and focus on art.

Episode 6
Rossetti and Lizzie return from their honeymoon, and Hunt proposes to Annie Miller.
About Desperate Romantics
- Cast
- Aidan Turner, Rafe Spall, Tom Hollander, Samuel Barnett, Sam Crane, Zoë Tapper
- Genres
- Drama
- Content rating
- NR
- Original language
- English
- Status
- Ended
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