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1 season · 8 eps

Season 1

S1 · E1 30 min

Hands Across the Sea Episode 1

Wubly rating 6.7 · You

A wealthy couple invites people over for drinks, and a couple arrives whom they don't recognize at all. They believe the two are someone else and spend their time trying to remember where they met and what they did before this meeting.

S1 · E2 30 min

Red Peppers Episode 2

Wubly rating 7.1 · You

Lily and George Pepper are a music hall act called "The Red Peppers," and one day onstage, late in their current engagement, they criticize the conductor and blame one another for trouble in their act. They also criticize a performer on the bill who is elderly, but still a respected star. When they appear onstage for their final performance, the conductor gets them back by railroading their orchestrations.

S1 · E3 30 min

The Astonished Heart Episode 3

Wubly rating 6.9 · You

School friends meet again after many years, and while a wife holds the candle for her Doctor husband, the friend has an affair with him, creating torment among the three until tragedy tears them apart.

S1 · E4 30 min

Family Album Episode 4

Wubly rating 7.1 · You

Following their father's death, his family of survivors make plans for the future. When they open a trunk, they find costumes they'd played with as children and the tense funereal air is suddenly lightened, leading to singing and dancing.

S1 · E5 30 min

Fumed Oak Episode 5

Wubly rating 7.2 · You

After being browbeaten by his overbearing wife and mother-in-law, and his spoiled daughter, a man makes the choice to leave his family. When he informs them of his best-laid plans, they are astonished, because now they must learn to fend for themselves.

S1 · E6 30 min

Ways and Means Episode 6

Wubly rating 6.9 · You

After a night in the casino in Cannes, the Cartwrights realize they're broke. Furthermore, their hostess needs to turn them out, because their suite is needed for incoming guests. When a thief arrives to rob them, they plan ways and means to benefit themselves, and the robber.

S1 · E7 30 min

Still Life Episode 7

Wubly rating 7.1 · You

A doctor and a housewife meet by happenstance at a train station, and through five beautifully played scenes, they fall in love, but the relationship is doomed to fail, because both are married to others, and the doctor has plans for a future away from England.

S1 · E8 30 min

Shadow Play Episode 8

Wubly rating 6.2 · You

Under the influence of sleeping pills, a woman on the brink of divorce dreams of her life with her husband as a hallucinatory musical play.

8 episodes in Season 1

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