Anyone trying to dramatise the lives of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood has my sympathy. At first glance, the project seems to have everything you need for post-watershed TV: sex; glamour; tragedy. It also has too many characters, most of them pretty unsympathetic gits, not afraid to do a bit of Victorian moralising while destroying the people they purported to love.
The only one who isn't a git is a bit naïve and dull, gets married, paints the ultimate chocolate-box picture, gets rich and....
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