Beauty and the Beast (Seasons 1–3)

Beauty and the Beast (1987) is an American fantasy drama series you can watch online on iFILM, starring Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman. Catherine Chandler, an assistant DA in New York City, survives a brutal attack thanks to Vincent — a leonine figure who lives far below the city streets in a hidden community built by society's castoffs.

The two share a psychic bond: Vincent feels Catherine's fear and pain from across the city and comes when she needs him. By day she works her cases aboveground; he remains in the tunnels with a leather-bound volume of Keats. What draws them back together, episode after episode, is less a plot mechanism and more an ache — which is exactly what the show is about.

The CBS series ran for three seasons across a US, French and Italian co-production, and picked up three Emmy Awards. Perlman brings such stillness to Vincent that the prosthetics stop registering somewhere around episode three. For viewers who want fantasy romance played completely straight — no wink, no irony — this is a rare find. Stream all seasons of Beauty and the Beast online on iFILM.