Name: The Beautiful Lie
Genre: Drame
Released: 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is the greatest ever relationship drama. The Beautiful Lie is a reimagining of this story set in contemporary middle-class life, exploring the love-lives of both happy and unhappy families in all their mess and grandeur. The Beautiful Lie is more than a great love story. Its a sprawling saga of adultery, scandal, manners, and mayhem about the fates of three enmeshed families across three generations.

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Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is the greatest ever relationship drama. The Beautiful Lie is a reimagining of this story set in contemporary middle-class life.
1. Episode 1
Anna flies home from a family holiday to help ‘save’ her brother Kingsley's marriage. Kingsley's wife, Dolly has just found out he has been having an affair with their live-in-nanny Gabriella and is threatening to leave him and take the children.
2. Episode 2
Anna can’t shake what happened with Skeet. He’s calling her. And then he texts: What are we going to do? She attempts to focus her affections on her husband Xander but finds it difficult. She tries to block Skeet from her mind, but can’t.
3. Episode 3
Anna has told Xander the affair is over but is sneaking away to see Skeet whenever she can. Xander is paranoid so he wants to check Anna's phone and whereabouts all the time. Meanwhile, Dolly and Kingsley have moved to the country where Dolly finds it less romantic than she thought it was going to be.
4. Episode 4
Anna is five months pregnant and already packing her hospital bag - she has a bad feeling about the birth and is convinced the baby is going to come early. Skeet has been recording an etherial young singer named Theresa and Anna can’t help but be jealous of her. Dolly convinces Xander to stop feeling sorry for himself and that he can still win Anna back.
5. Episode 5
Peter and Kitty's wedding preparations have begun and she is disappointed he is refusing to have it in a church. As a compromise, they issue a wedding invitation for a NOT-WEDDING to be held at Dolly's country house and they would like their guests to all wear white. Kingsley tells Anna about the not-wedding and makes it out like it's very informal.
6. Episode 6
Anna and Skeet have moved to the country in a futile bid for peace. Anna puts on a brave face for Dolly who visits her beautiful new house. Dolly is quietly jealous. Anna finds herself home alone with the baby more and more as Skeet makes any excuse to be back in the city with his work. Anna is convinced he is having an affair with Theresa, the singer. The more clingy Anna is the more distant Skeet becomes. Their relationship begins to spiral.
Anna and Skeet have moved to the country in a futile bid for peace. Anna puts on a brave face for Dolly who visits her beautiful new house. Dolly is quietly jealous. Anna finds herself home alone with the baby more and more as Skeet makes any excuse to be back in the city with his work. Anna is convinced he is having an affair with Theresa, the singer. The more clingy Anna is the more distant Skeet becomes. Their relationship begins to spiral.