The Forsyte Saga

The Forsyte Saga is a historical dramatic TV mini-series developed by the BBC based on John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga that chronicles the lives of the Forsyte family as they handle the difficulties of their Victorian era lives as their desires clash with the propriety of the times. Soames Forsyte (Damian Lewis) was the prodigal solicitor son of a wealthy and proud family. Irene Herron (Gina McKee) is a beautiful but poor woman who despises Soames's possessiveness but eventually marries him. As Soames does everything in his power to secure his wife's love by buying her pretty gowns, jewels, and building a perfect house, Irene is doing everything she can to run away, including having an affair with their young niece's fiancé, Phillip Bosinney (Ioan Gruffudd) and eventually running away with Soames's cousin Young Jolyon Forsyte (Rubert Graves). Though the two break away and marry others, it seems fate has something in store in order to keep their families together. MORE