Netflix will release all eight episodes of The Age of Innocence at once, on 18 February 2027. The period drama adapts Edith Wharton’s 1920 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
Netflix released first-look photos of the three leads. Deadline says the photos show Camila Morrone, Kristine Froseth, and Ben Radcliffe, with Margo Martindale appearing in Episode 104. Because the whole run lands on one day, nobody has to wait week to week to see how it ends.
Radcliffe plays Newland Archer, a young man newly engaged to May Welland, played by Froseth. Morrone plays Ellen Olenska, May’s cousin, who returns to New York after her marriage breaks down. That’s the love triangle the series is built on.
Emma Frost wrote the eight-episode series and runs it as showrunner. She’s known for The White Queen, The White Princess and The Spanish Princess. She explains the title this way:
The title also refers to a world that’s lost its innocence.
Emma Frost, showrunner
Wharton’s novel has been adapted several times. The best-known version is Martin Scorsese’s 1993 film, with Daniel Day-Lewis as Newland, Michelle Pfeiffer as Ellen and Winona Ryder as May.
For Froseth, it’s a second Wharton adaptation. She also stars in Apple TV’s The Buccaneers, based on the author’s final, unfinished novel.
Netflix has other literary adaptations in the works, including a Lonesome Dove series from Zoe Kazan and Jeb Stuart.
