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
E1 Episode 1The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood look for a muse to inspire their best work yet.
E2 Episode 2Millais sets to work on a masterpiece for art critic John Ruskin. Hunt is in turmoil.
E3 Episode 3As his new patron, John Ruskin insists on Millais painting his young wife Effie.
E4 Episode 4Returning from the Holy Land, Hunt asks Annie to marry him, unaware she has seduced Fred.
E5 Episode 5Ruskin threatens to end his support unless Rossetti and Lizzie calm down and focus on art.
E6 Episode 6Rossetti and Lizzie return from their honeymoon, and Hunt proposes to Annie Miller.
