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Netflix’s new take on Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence has a premiere date. The eight-episode limited series arrives Feb. 18, 2027, and Netflix released first-look images of stars Camila Morrone, Kristine Froseth and Ben Radcliffe this week, according to the streamer’s announcement.
The featured image is a first-look still released by Netflix.
The Lowdown
Wharton’s 1920 novel is one of the great American love-triangle stories, and Martin Scorsese’s 1993 film is still the version most people picture. Emma Frost, who wrote all eight episodes, is betting a longer series can spend more time in the ballrooms and drawing rooms of 1870s New York. The cast is young and the period detail looks lavish. Whether it can step out of Scorsese’s shadow is the question it will have to answer in February.
Key Takeaways
- Netflix’s limited series The Age of Innocence premieres Feb. 18, 2027.
- Camila Morrone plays Ellen Olenska, Kristine Froseth plays May Welland, and Ben Radcliffe plays Newland Archer.
- Margo Martindale, Fiona Glascott, Belinda Bromilow, Emma Shipp and Hayley Mills are also in the cast.
- Emma Frost is showrunner and executive producer, and she wrote all eight episodes.
- The series adapts Edith Wharton’s 1920 novel, the first Pulitzer Prize for Fiction won by a woman.
The Full Story
The Love Triangle
Newland is engaged to May when her cousin Ellen comes back to New York after a failed marriage, trailing scandal. “The story is about the choice between following your heart or staying with duty and convention,” Frost told Tudum.
“Ben Radcliffe was a revelation as Newland. Cami is fearless as a performer,” Frost said, adding that Froseth made May “effervescent and open, innocent, and hopeful.”
Who Else Is in the Cast
Netflix lists Martindale as the family matriarch Mrs. Manson Mingott, Glascott as Augusta Welland, Bromilow as Adeline Archer, Shipp as Janey Archer, and Mills and Michael Cochrane as the van der Luydens. Deadline also reported the date and photos. More streaming news is on our TV & Streaming page.
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- Netflix Tudum — The Age of Innocence first look ↗
- Netflix via The Futon Critic — First look at The Age of Innocence, coming Feb. 18, 2027 ↗
- Deadline — The Age of Innocence sets Netflix release date ↗