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The Line of Beauty

Nick Guest (Dan Stevens) comes to London to live with his college friend's family, the Feddens. A short stay becomes permanent, and Nick positions himself in the family's plentiful lives of parties and politics during the Thatcher years. Over the course of three episodes spanning four years in the mid eighties, we follow Nick's two homosexual love affairs in a time of promiscuity and carelessness, until the A.I.D.S. crisis, and a bout of scandal, threaten life as he has come to know it.

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Dan Stevens
Nick Guest
Tim McInnerny
Gerald Fedden
Hayley Atwell
Cat Fedden

Season 1 Episode Guide See All

Episode 1

The Love Chord

59 mins

1983. Nick Guest comes to London to spend the summer house-sitting for his college friend's family, the Feddens, and to research his thesis on Henry James. He makes friends with the daughter of the house, Catherine, and falls in love with Leo, a black man. The Feddens ask Nick to live with them, and he is introduced to their high-society lives of parties and politics.

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Awards

  • 2007 - Broadcasting Press Guild Award - Best Drama Series - nominated

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