Dangerous Liaisons (Season 1)

Dangerous Liaisons (2022) is a period drama series you can watch online on iFILM. Pre-revolutionary Paris: two penniless young people meet in the city's slums and quickly work out that seduction is the most reliable social ladder available to them.

This is an origin story for the characters at the center of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' 18th-century novel. Camille de Merteuil (Alice Englert) and Gaston de Valmont (Nicholas Denton) scheme, seduce, and manipulate their way into French aristocracy. Former lovers turned strategic partners turned rivals — neither can fully trust the other even when they need each other most. Directed by Leonora Lonsdale, with Carice van Houten, Michael McElhatton, and Lesley Manville in supporting roles.

What gives the series teeth is the class angle: these aren't people who enjoy cruelty for sport — they're people who learned that the only power available to them was over other people's desires. Stream Dangerous Liaisons (2022) online on iFILM.