Interesting to view longtime actors like Wendy Craig, who plays a supporting role as one of the elderly aunts of the family. Gina McKee delivers the right balance of dignity and strength as she battles Soames who tries to bring her to heel. All the cast are superb, particularly Damian Lewis as Somes. Soames stalks her, driving her into the arms of his free-spirited cousin Jolyon. In this conflict between old and new, we find Soames' estranged wife Irene (Gina McKee) opposing him as he tries to lure her back into his straitjacket world.

The class system is coming under tremendous stress and people like Soames Forsyte, performed by Damian Lewis, and his father (John Carlisle) try to maintain the standards of behaviour and hypocrisy against another branch of the family, including Jolyon Forsyte and his son, characters played by Corin Redgrave and Rupert Graves. Some trying to keep with the old ways against those who are trying to fashion a less regimented way of life. Set in the late 19th and early 20th century Britain, an era of major transition, we see the characters in the Forsyte family clashing with one another.

Now watching this excellent drama on PBS, I find the characters and story keep me tuning in to each episode to watch the twists in the plot and how the characters change and grow over a period of time.

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