John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga has been adapted twice into massive Masterpiece on PBS hits. Does the tangled tale of unhappy marriages, scandalous love affairs, and generational trauma still have steam in 2026? Masterpiece‘s brand new series The Forsytes hopes so! This latest adaptation — spearheaded by Poldark mastermind Debbie Horsfield — remixes the original story to put the women at the forefront and hot young heartthrobs in the dress shoes of dueling cousins Soames and Jolyon.
THE FORSYTES: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?
Opening Shot: London, 1877. A monarch butterfly flutters through an ornately decorated cathedral and lands on a bouquet of white roses. An older woman narrates, “It was a momentous day when June’s mother remarried and they joined our family.” The butterfly flies around the church, causing the little girl holding the bouquet to spin around chasing it in flight.
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