The Forsytes(2025)

The Forsytes is a saga-scale period drama set across the early twentieth century, tracking a wealthy solicitor whose fixation on a woman who refuses to love him shapes the lives of everyone around him. The story moves through generations, following siblings, parents, and children as inheritance, marriage, and social control accumulate dramatic weight across decades.

What makes the series distinctive is its refusal to soften the central marriage. She remains distant; he escalates. The friction between wealth and emotional powerlessness runs through the family's history rather than resolving into warmth, and the settings, grand houses and formal interiors, reinforce how much of this world is built on possession rather than affection.