Death Comes to Pemberley (Season 1)

Death Comes to Pemberley (2013) is a British period mystery you can watch online on iFILM. Six years into the marriage of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, the night before a grand ball, Lydia bursts through the gates screaming that her husband has been murdered.

This three-part BBC drama picks up where Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice left off, adapting P. D. James' detective novel. A body turns up in the Pemberley woods, and the wastrel George Wickham becomes the prime suspect. Matthew Rhys plays Darcy, Anna Maxwell Martin is Elizabeth, Matthew Goode brings sly charm to Wickham, and Jenna Coleman is the reckless Lydia. Drawing rooms and a courtroom share equal weight as a man's neck hangs in the balance.

Director Daniel Percival keeps the Austen manners but swaps romance for an inquest: the familiar faces now lie, shield their relatives and dread a scandal more than the gallows. It rewards viewers who want costume-drama England with a real whodunit underneath. Stream Death Comes to Pemberley (2013) online on iFILM.