Z: The Beginning of Everything

Z: The Beginning of Everything

Created by Nicole Yorkin, Dawn Prestwich

On Prime Video

2015–20171 season10 episodes27 min6.8 / 10

A visually lush period biography of Zelda Fitzgerald that romanticizes the Jazz Age while tracing the arc from passionate love to destructive celebrity marriage.

A biography series based on the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, the brilliant, beautiful and talented Southern Belle who becomes the original flapper and icon of the wild, flamboyant Jazz Age in the 20s. Z starts before Zelda Fitzgerald meets the unpublished writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and moves through their passionate, turbulent love affair and their marriage-made in heaven, lived out in hell as the celebrity couple of their time.

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  • Is Z: The Beginning of Everything sad? Yes. More sad than 84% of series.

  • Does Z: The Beginning of Everything leave you hopeful? Not especially. Less hopeful than 73% of series.

  • Is Z: The Beginning of Everything violent? Not especially. Less violent than 70% of series.

  • Is Z: The Beginning of Everything easy watching? Not especially. Less comforting than 61% of series.

  • Is Z: The Beginning of Everything scary? Not especially. Less frightening than 59% of series.

These describe how the series comes across across its whole run, compared with other well-known series. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked episode by episode, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

55/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this series gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Familiar shape, done well.

Rarity88

How unlike any other series this one feels

Surprise38

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love45

How much audiences actually like it

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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