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11 Episodes 2018 - 2018
Episode 1
Tue, Jan 23, 201821 mins
Lillian and Beatrice take up Hortense's mantle to begin fighting for women's rights, thinking this will make them famous. Peepers bristles at Father Black Donahue's new role at the manor. Blanche discovers a way to improve her baby's life.

Episode 2
Tue, Jan 30, 201821 mins
Evidence abounds in Bellacourt Manor, both upstairs and downstairs, that it is haunted by a ghost or ghosts. Despite Lillian and Frederick both certain they know who is ghost is, Lillian decides to call in who she considers the foremost expert to conduct a séance to deal with the ghost(s) once and for all, that expert being magician Harry Houdini. With Houdini in the manor, Albert has his own agenda during the esteemed magician's presence. Meanwhile, the downstairs staff have their own take on what's happening, with Peepers delving into his heritage to deal with the ghost. As the faithful servant, Garfield does whatever he can to help Peepers, just as long as whatever measure does not harm his imaginary best friend Sticky Johnny, who is more real than Garfield can imagine but in a different way than he envisions.

Episode 3
Tue, Feb 6, 201821 mins
A little known sporting competition called the Olympics is coming to America for the first time. Victor and the other members of his men's club are incensed that women are allowed to compete specifically in archery. Despite having no interest in the sport itself, Lillian decides to enter the competition in order to have a shiny medal around her neck, preferably gold. Victor and his friends' measures to stop the women from entering the competition has an unintended consequence most specifically for Lillian. One person who has come to America coinciding with the competition is Victor's nephew from Bavaria, a gentle boy named Adolf Hitler. Adolf's views of the world may be influenced by his encounter with Dr. Goldberg, Hamish and the archers. Meanwhile, Celery discovers a document which places Frederick and Beatrice's relationship in a new light, the latter two who have to come to terms with the information. Celery knows more about the document itself than she lets on.

Episode 4
Tue, Feb 13, 201821 mins
Abandoned by Cornetta and Abortion Deb, Hortense reluctantly asks Lillian and Beatrice to assist her in a meteorological experiment which she hopes and suspects will garner her some scientific fame. It's not the possibility of fame that make both Lillian and Beatrice agree to help Hortense, but something associated with the experiment that would fulfill the one matching item on both their bucket lists. That one item has the potential to tear all three sisters apart. Something with the experiment doesn't go quite according to plan, that unexpected turn which requires the sisters to ask for further help in the form of Hamish, whose assistance has the further potential to make matters even more complicated. Meanwhile, Dodo searches for something to replace morphine in her life, it which she is no longer injecting. That replacement, the association to which is the replacement "high", is to take a one day inner harbor voyage on the "high" sea, she taking Peepers along to attend to any menial tasks. Much like the meteorological experiment, the voyage doesn't go quite according to plan. Dodo ends up making a request in the face of death which has the potential to change the face of Bellacourt Manor forever.

Episode 5
Tue, Feb 20, 201821 mins
Celery is hosting her annual masquerade ball. She has a very specific agenda for this party, namely to get Colonel Beauregard Trimbald, the toilet king of Tallahassee, to fund Frederick's presidential bid. Not only are Lillian and Beatrice not invited to the ball, but they receive official non-invitations explicitly stating that they are not invited. Regardless, they are determined to crash the ball. They each take a different path to entry, separating themselves from each other once in. They both make a connection at the ball, Lillian's which has the potential to derail Celery's goal, and Beatrice's which looks to replace the love she no longer feels for Frederick. Meanwhile, Garfield is finding that he is ill-equipped to replace Peepers as head butler at Bellacourt Manor. Regardless, he feels it's his duty and right. In doing his job, as badly as he is, he is unaware that someone else is trying to steal the job right in front of him.

Episode 6
Tue, Feb 27, 201821 mins
A new piece of technology is causing problems for those at Bellacourt Manor. A carriage accident leads to the talk of death and dying and the afterlife. While Beatrice never thought she would die and thus is in a sense of crisis, Lillian aims to be buried at Chevrolet Cemetery where the rich and famous of Newport are buried, and not at Shady Acres where all the past Bellacourts are buried. Lillian's wants become a problem for her as Chevrolet is already all booked up. She takes decisive steps to be among the exception to the rule to make it into Chevrolet. Meanwhile, Albert tries to talk a reluctant Victor into procreating with a woman so that they can have a baby to save their crumbling relationship. Their measures to test the waters to see if they would be the parents they want to be may lead to Blanche having a nervous breakdown. And Celery makes arrangements for a reluctant Frederick to take the next step into becoming President. Celery's plan doesn't quite come off the way she wants, however the end result may surprise her.

Episode 7
Tue, Mar 6, 201821 mins
Beatrice is gaining some notoriety, but not the kind she wants: Edison's house was burglarized, the burglars who stole and have made for public viewing Beatrice's sex film. Beatrice doesn't know why she should be vilified, especially as she was kidnapped and tricked into making the film, she taking what she believes is decisive action to get rid of the cause of her problems. But when she and Dodo learn that others are making money off the film, they figure they should be able to cash in as well. Lillian, on the other hand, is jealous of Beatrice's new found fame, Lillian who wants that fame even if for the reason Beatrice has attracted the attention. Lillian has to figure out a way to usurp her sister. Meanwhile, the police investigating the cause of the burglary, and Victor and Albert abhorring the types of their new neighbors lead to new careers for the pair.
Episode 8
Tue, Mar 13, 201821 mins
Now that Beatrice has achieved some fame, Dodo comes up with the next idea which will make Beatrice become even more famous. That idea requires Beatrice to look as beautiful as possible. In Beatrice's makeover, which causes her some physical discomfort, is there a point of going overboard? Beatrice's fame has led to thoughts with Lillian of suicide. She receives what she believes is a sign to make her reconsider that decision. That sign takes her to Lucky Chang's, an illegal Chinese gambling parlor. Her activities at Chang's will make her look at life and money in a whole new light. And Frederick is happily receiving bribes in turn for political favors in his bid to become President. Aside from the bribes, he still has time, or at least thoughts, of self-pleasure to what most red-blooded Newport heterosexual men are using.

Episode 9
Tue, Mar 13, 201821 mins
Lillian, inside Newport Sanatarium, runs into someone she knows there, the balance of power having shifted from what it was on the outside. But when Lillian discovers what the inmate in charge is up to, Lillian figures there is a better way to do things on the inside. Meanwhile, Beatrice and Frederick are both determined to find their mystery love from the ball before the other, to gain the upper hand in forgetting about the other first and more fully. Hortense, who knows full well who each mystery person is, decides to have some fun of her own to help her twin siblings find their true love. And it's Family Day among the servants. Being an orphan, Garfield feels left out. So he decides that he will try and discover his biological parents' identity. He will have to decide how far he will go to to find out what he wants, while others possibly in the know have to decide what they want to divulge to Garfield what they know.

Episode 10
Tue, Mar 20, 201821 mins
The Commodore has returned to Bellacourt Manor purportedly on his last legs, the manor where he wants to die. Dodo grants him his request. However, the Commodore, alive and well, has really come back to win Dodo and regain his place in the manor. However he realizes that after forty years of marriage to her, he knows nothing about her in order to win her back. He secretly tries to pry such intimate information from the person who arguably knows her the best, namely Peepers. But Peepers, still in love with the matron of the manor, may have his own thoughts about what the Commodore is trying to do. Meanwhile, Lillian, still in the sanitarium, believes that she can prey on Blanche's seemingly ambitious nature to operate a drug ring, smuggling the drugs out of the institution onto the black market. In the process, Lillian will discover just how ambitious Blanche really is. And Hortense just can't wait for the climax of her plan, when Beatrice and Frederick discover that they are each other's beloved. Hortense's plan takes a twist she didn't envision, even though what happens is typical of Beatrice and Frederick.

Episode 11
Tue, Mar 20, 201821 mins
Celery continues to lay the groundwork for Frederick's run to president in '08. At a rally at which Celery has dictated to Frederick what he is to do, Frederick does something accidentally "off script" which leads to Celery and Frederick reevaluating the run in '08. Frederick's run for president has divided the nation as demonstrated by those downstairs at Bellacourt Manor. Now that Frederick is focusing on his career, Beatrice, who wants to tell him that she is his beloved and he is hers, has to figure out what to do with her life instead of being with Frederick, it a life where no one loves her. She turns to the one person no one loves for advice. And Officer O'Kelly continues to convince an amnesiac Lillian that she is his wife, Garbagella, however much she feels that doing wifely chores is not in her DNA. Because of Lillian's feelings, O'Kelly just has to keep her away from any triggers that may inform her that she is truly heiress Lillian Bellacourt.
