My Brilliant Career

About My Brilliant Career

Restless, razor-sharp and refusing to conform, 17-year-old Sybylla Melvyn is dead set on writing her own story in an era that expects her to find a man and settle down.

Netflix's My Brilliant Career is a drama and family series. Philippa Northeast stars as Sybylla Melvyn, Christopher Chung as Harry Beecham, Genevieve O'Reilly as Helen Bell, and Anna Chancellor as Mrs. Bossier.

It reached one season of 6 episodes from August 2026. The series began as a novel.

Members will find father daughter relationship, farm, 20th century, and feminism in it. It streams on Netflix and Netflix Standard with Ads in the United States. It carries a TV-14 rating.

East of Eden, Lillie, and And Quiet Flows the Don make useful companions to My Brilliant Career, all filed under 1900s and miniseries.