Les Misérables

About Les Misérables

France, 1815. Jean Valjean, a common thief, is released from prison after having lived a hell in life for 19 years, but a small mistake puts the law again on his trail.

Les Misérables is a drama series made for BBC One. Dominic West leads the cast as Jean Valjean, David Oyelowo as Javert, and Adeel Akhtar as Thénardier.

Its one season of 6 episodes aired between December 2018 and February 2019. The series began as a novel.

Members will find father daughter relationship, child abuse, poverty, and manhunt in it. It streams on PBS Masterpiece Amazon Channel in the United States. It scores 7.3 out of 10 from 143 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-14 rating.

Great Expectations, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Oliver Twist make useful companions to Les Misérables, all filed under 19th century.