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Z: The Beginning of Everything

★ 7.0 5K votes 2015–2017 1 season · 10 episodes Canceled Prime Video
Period pieceSet meaningfully in a past era.This show: 9/10Female perspectiveWomen's experience as the defining lens.This show: 8/10Strong female leadA complex woman drives the story.This show: 7/10Love storyA love story as the engine of the show, not a side plot.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Christina RicciDavid HoflinKristine NielsenDavid StrathairnJim True-FrostCorey Cott
Written by
Dawn PrestwichNicole Yorkin
Starring
Christina RicciDavid HoflinKristine NielsenDavid StrathairnJim True-FrostCorey Cott
Written by
Dawn PrestwichNicole Yorkin
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About

"A restless woman before the Fitzgerald legend swallowed her"

This Amazon original traces the early life of Zelda Sayre before she became Zelda Fitzgerald, a restless Alabama debutante chafing against Southern propriety who falls for a young, ambitious writer named F. Scott Fitzgerald. It follows their courtship and the early days of their famously turbulent marriage against the glitter of the Jazz Age. The tone is lush and melancholic, driven by Christina Ricci's performance as a woman straining against the era's limits on women. It's a slow-burn character study more than a plot-driven drama, heavy on atmosphere and costume.

Watch it for

Christina Ricci's performance as a woman fighting to be seen as more than a muse.

Maybe skip if

you want fast plotting rather than a moody character study cut short after one season.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12015
7.02K104h 32m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Pilot7.2
28127 min
▶2Just Humans6.9
21231 min
▶3The Right Side of Paradise6.8
18727 min
▶4You, Me and Us7.2
18026 min
▶5The It Girl7.2
16424 min
▶6Lights! Camera! Fitzgerald!6.8
15527 min
▶7Where There Are Friends, There Are Riches6.8
14728 min
▶8Playing House7.1
14729 min
▶9Quicksand7.2
14425 min
▶10Best of All7.0
15328 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Christina Ricci Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
David Hoflin F. Scott Fitzgerald
Kristine Nielsen Minnie Sayre
David Strathairn Judge Anthony Sayre
Jim True-Frost Max Perkins
Corey Cott Townsend Martin
Christina Bennett Lind Tallulah Bankhead
Natalie Knepp Eugenia Bankhead
Jamie Anne Allman 'Tootsie' Sayre Smith
Holly Curran 'Tilde' Sayre Palmer

Crew

Dawn Prestwich
Nicole Yorkin

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