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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.

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About Desperate Romantics

Cast
Aidan Turner, Rafe Spall, Tom Hollander, Samuel Barnett, Sam Crane, Zoë Tapper
Genres
Drama
Content rating
NR
Original language
English
Status
Ended

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