Desperate Romantics

On BBC Two

A lush, intimate portrait of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 19th-century London, balancing artistic passion and bohemian excess with period melancholy and romantic entanglement.

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.