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Newcomers to Channel 5's period drama The Forsytes might be unfamiliar with its beloved predecessor, The Forsyte Saga. Despite two decades having elapsed since it first aired, period drama fans still heap praise upon this sweeping multi-generational tale of an affluent family. ‌

The latest programme acts as a prequel and "reimagining" of the Nobel Prize-winning novels written by John Galsworthy. The Forsyte Saga, a 10-part ITV miniseries, follows the scandals spanning three generations of a socially ambitious family from the 1870s through to the 1920s. ‌

Central to the narrative is Damien Lewis's character, who delivers a "constant marvel" of a performance as Soames Forsyte, the family's unlikeable yet complex patriarch. ‌

Soames is an affluent solicitor consumed

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