Our Mutual Friend
Intertwining tales of love, greed, and secret identities in Charles Dickens's 1860s London.
Genre: Drama
Cast:Paul McGann , Keeley Hawes , Dominic Mafham , David Bradley , Anna Friel , Peter Vaughan , Pam Ferris , Steven Mackintosh , Sarah Crowden , Cate Fowler , John Dallimore , Peter Howell , Michael Culkin , Anthony Calf , Doon Mackichan , Ray Gardner , Rose English , Margaret Tyzack
S1.E1 ∙ Episode #1.1
A body pulled from the Thames is identified as young John Harmon, heir to a fortune made in dust-contracting. Bella Wilfer, his wife-to-be by terms of old Harmon's will, goes into mourning though she has never met her fiancé.
S1.E2 ∙ Episode #1.2
Lizzie Hexam, daughter of the corpse robber who found young Harmon's alleged body, is being courted by two desperate characters: Eugene Wrayburn, a dissolute barrister, and Bradley Headstone, a mentally-deranged schoolmaster.
S1.E3 ∙ Episode #1.3
As the rivalry over who will take Lizzie's hand in marriage intensifies, Lizzie flees. Meanwhile, the once-kindly Mr. Boffin has become a tyrant to Rokesmith, who evokes the sympathy of the formerly haughty Bella.
S1.E4 ∙ Episode #1.4
Harmon is planning to claim his dust fortune from the Boffins, who have been playing villains to test Bella's true character. Meanwhile, Eugene has a brush with death via Headstone and decides to do the honorable thing with Lizzie.
