The Beautiful Lie (2015)

Genre

drama television series

Country

Australia

Length

1 season, 6 episodes

Rated

MA 15+

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A married woman begins an affair with a younger man, upending her family and social circle. The story follows the fallout as relationships fracture and secrets emerge.

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What happens

The Beautiful Lie is an Australian television drama that aired on ABC. The six-part series is a contemporary re-imagining of Leo Tolstoy's classic 1877 novel Anna Karenina. It is directed by Glendyn Ivin and Peter Salmon and produced by Endemol Australia's John Edwards and Imogen Banks. It premiered on Sunday 18 October 2015 at 8:30pm. Screenwriter Alice Bell made the decision to turn Anna and Xander into sports stars to heighten the transgression of a wife leaving her husband. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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