EPISODE
SEASON
The Forsyte Saga - Season 1
Chronicles the lives of three generations of the upper-middle-class British family, the Forsytes, from the 1870s to 1920.
9 January 1952, Penang, Malaysia
1921 in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
29 November 1976, Sheffield, England, UK
21 August 1965, Birmingham, England, UK
1951, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
1 April 1974, London, England, UK
30 September 1970, Catterick, North Yorkshire, England, UK
10 October 1971, UK
5 August 1948, Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK
1953, England, UK
5 September 1964, Kalmar, Kalmar län, Sweden
1936, Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK
1963, Essex, England, UK
April 22, 2019
Lewis's performance, though, is a constant marvel. The actor makes Soames's emotional repression so palpable that it's hard to hate him even at his most heartless.
April 22, 2019
It would be easy to dismiss The Forsyte Saga as "just" a soap opera with the emphasis on plot, but you could argue the same of The Way We Live Now. An epic story, it managed to look epic too. The Forsyte Saga, alas, did not.
April 22, 2019
Although the new ''Forsyte Saga'' cannot recreate the story's historic role in television, its revitalized characters offer a delightful escape.
April 22, 2019
There are also moments of high drama, though that concept is miles from what we've come to expect in our popcorn-movie culture. Still, it works.
April 22, 2019
It's a tribute to the story, writing and Lewis' performance that Soames is more multidimensional than he so easily could have been
April 22, 2019
It's a testament to the material's strength, and its handling here, that "The Forsyte Saga" still manages to succeed.
April 22, 2019
It is testimony to Lewis' extraordinary skill that his is the character we loathe at the outset of "The Forsyte Saga" and in whom we become most interested by the end.
