Aristocrats

Based on a true story, Aristocrats draws back the curtain on an 18th century English family near the summit of society, revealing a tapestry of romance, prejudice, infidelity, and revolution. The three-part TV miniseries follows the four Lennox sisters, daughters of Lord Richmond, from youth to ...more

Aristocrats is Gone With the Wind with a British accent. While chronicling the fortunes and misfortunes of highborn daughters with kingly connections, the production burgeons with jewels, powdered wigs, prancing horses, stately manors, and the life-giving fodder of the drawing-room: scandal, gossip, and power politics. A soap opera on a grand scale, Aristocrats arrays itself in the full panoply of English life in an age when position, power, and the ring of expensive china means everything. The ...more