TV series

Z: The Beginning of Everything

2015–2017 · 1 season

A lush, bittersweet plunge into Jazz Age glamour and a volatile marriage, elegant and intimate but shadowed by sadness.

Overview: A biography series based on the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, the brilliant, beautiful and talented Southern Belle who becomes the original flapper and icon of the wild, flamboyant Jazz Age in the 20s. Z starts before Zelda Fitzgerald meets the unpublished writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and moves through their passionate, turbulent love affair and their marriage-made in heaven, lived out in hell as the celebrity couple of their time.
How it feels: Romantic, melancholic, tense and warm. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Love, ambition, identity, addiction
Content: Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
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Tone: romanticstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: love
ambition
identity
addiction
betrayal
Places: small town
big city
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: true story
serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild