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Brideshead Revisited

★ 8.5 9K votes 1981–1981 1 seasons · 11 episodes Ended ITV1
NostalgicTrades on longing for a past era, in the story or around it.This show: 10/10Period pieceSet meaningfully in a past era.This show: 10/10MelancholicA wistful sadness woven through the story, even in its lighter moments.This show: 9/10BittersweetJoy and loss mixed so thoroughly they can't be separated.This show: 9/10British TVThe British television sensibility: tone, restraint and format traditions.This show: 9/10Royalty & aristocracyCourts, crowns and dynasties.This show: 8/10Faith & religionBelief, doubt and religious institutions.This show: 8/10Elites & privilegeThe rich and powerful, glamorous or rotten.This show: 8/10
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Starring
Jeremy IronsDiana QuickRoger MilnerPhoebe NichollsSimon JonesAnthony Andrews
Starring
Jeremy IronsDiana QuickRoger MilnerPhoebe NichollsSimon JonesAnthony Andrews
Ratings per Episode
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Votes per Episode
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About

"An aching, gorgeous elegy for a lost world"

An officer stationed in wartime England drifts back in memory to his Oxford days, when he fell under the spell of a glamorous, doomed aristocratic family and their crumbling country estate. The show unfolds slowly and lushly, tracing friendship, unrequited love, faith, and decline across decades. It is unhurried, novelistic television, built on long conversations, voiceover narration, and exquisite period detail rather than plot mechanics. The pace demands patience, but the atmosphere of nostalgia, longing, and quiet tragedy is immersive and gives the performances room to breathe fully.

Watch it for

the immersive, novelistic portrait of aristocratic decline and doomed friendship, carried by extraordinary performances.

Maybe skip if

you need brisk pacing, as this unfolds slowly with long, dialogue-heavy scenes.

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All Seasons

Miniseries1981
8.22K1110h 59m
Charles Ryder, an agnostic man, becomes involved with the Flytes, a Catholic family of aristocrats, over the course of several between the two world wars.
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
1Et in Arcadia Ego8.2
299101 min
2Home and Abroad8.3
23752 min
3The Bleak Light of Day8.2
21552 min
4Sebastian Against the World8.3
20152 min
5A Blow Upon a Bruise8.3
20452 min
6Julia8.1
19652 min
7The Unseen Hook8.2
20052 min
8Brideshead Deserted8.0
19552 min
9Orphans of the Storm8.1
19052 min
10A Twitch Upon the Thread8.1
19252 min
11Brideshead Revisited8.4
21690 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Jeremy Irons Charles Ryder
Diana Quick Julia Flyte, Julia Mottram
Roger Milner Wilcox
Phoebe Nicholls Cordelia Flyte
Simon Jones Lord Brideshead 'Bridey'
Anthony Andrews Sebastian Flyte
Charles Keating Rex Mottram
Claire Bloom Lady Marchmain
John Gielgud Edward Ryder
Jeremy Sinden Boy Mulcaster

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