Historical drama with all the gravitas of a Hello spread. Wall-to-wall slebs, lots of period cliche, plenty of dull contrived sex of the above-the-waistline variety. Utterly dreadful, but there'll be a guaranteed audience for this sort of formulaic stuff. It does look like it was expensive to make - it's particularly annoying that this is a BBC production so will have drained public money.
Review of Desperate Romantics
