Forget the marital tensions between the cousins and their wives. The biggest surprise in The Forsytes’ first-season finale on PBS was an end-of-episode revelation. Warning: Spoilers for The Forsytes’ Season 1 finale ahead!
Elderly matriarch Ann (Francesca Annis) announced to her son Jolyon (Stephen Moyer) that she has a grandson named Harry Falconer! It suggests the possibility of a major digression from the show’s source material, John Galsworthy novels, and its previous TV adaptations, in the already shot second season of Masterpiece’s Victorian-era costume drama, since the character of Harry, who had the money he lost due to a bad investment covered by Ann, is a creation of The Forsytes’ showrunner, Debbie Horsfield. We may learn more about him next season.
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