Les Misérables: Season 1

2018
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Six part BBC mini series telling the epic tale of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel. It stars Dominic West as Jean... More

Where to watch Les Misérables: Season 1

Les Misérables: Season 1 is available to stream in the... More United Kingdom now on Apple TV Store and Google TV and BBC iPlayer.

Les Misérables: Season 1 episodes

Episode 1.1

Episode 1

In war-torn France, convict Jean Valjean and seamstress Fantine must... More decide their futures. Valjean's past continues to haunt him. Fantine meets the love of her life.

Episode 1.2

Episode 2

Fantine leaves Paris to find work and must make a... More heartbreaking decision. Jean Valjean has forged a new identity, and Javert is determined to catch him out.

Episode 1.3

Episode 3

Manipulated by Javert, Jean Valjean is ready to turn himself... More in, but he makes a promise to Fantine that changes everything.

Episode 1.4

Episode 4

Jean Valjean worries when Cosette meets a young man. The... More Thenardiers plot their revenge.

EPISODE 1.5

Episode 5

Paris is on the brink of revolt. Javert remains obsessed... More by the pursuit of Jean Valjean. Anxious Valjean makes a plan. Marius makes a promise to Cosette.

EPISODE 1.6

Episode 6

The revolutionaries fight on. Jean Valjean is conflicted over Marius... More and Cosette's love and seeks Marius at the barricade. Javert confronts Valjean.

Les Misérables: Season 1 | Ratings & Reviews

"As Daffy Duck said, it's the rich what gets the gravy, and the poor what gets the blame. Les Miserables is a gorgeously conceived means of getting that depressing, eternal truth across."

Sydney Morning HeraldSydney Morning Herald

"It tells the story well enough but rarely gets under the skin of Hugo's mad book - a kind of spiritual potboiler cum encyclopedia that includes lengthy excursions into history, economics, philosophy, retrospective travel writing and religion."

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times

"An engrossing treat, featuring a vibrant cast and taking its time to unspool the melodrama and offer loving looks at 19th century France."

IndieWireIndieWire

"Victor Hugo wrote one of the longest novels in literature... Thankfully, we viewers do get the narrative through-line in this handsome, passionate, near-heroic adaptation of Hugo's moral fable."

Wall Street JournalWall Street Journal

"This new version of "Les Misérables" comes to us in the form of a handsome, sweeping, straightforward series of six episodes."

VarietyVariety

"Les Miserables represents a substantive commitment and yet still feels hours short of an ideal and full Hugo adaptation."

Hollywood ReporterHollywood Reporter

"C'est magnifique - and there is no chance of Russell Crowe popping up to sing about stars or runaway carts. Merci, Monsieur Davies. Merci."

The GuardianThe Guardian

"Now that the nuts and bolts are in place we can look forward to what promises to be a quality series safe in the knowledge that (apologies to musical fans) every Tom, Dick and Harry won't be bursting into godawful song."

The TimesThe Times

"Davies's script has so far hit the main marks and tripped lightly through a thicket of exposition. Sometimes he has been constrained by threadbare material."

Daily TelegraphDaily Telegraph

Les Misérables: Season 1 | Details

Genre
Drama
Country of origin
UK