Dangerous Liaisons

Dangerous Liaisons is a lavish period drama that reimagines Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's scandalous 1782 novel Les Liaisons dangereuses as an origin story, charting how its two most notorious schemers first learned the art of seduction and betrayal. Created by Harriet Warner, the series originally premiered on Starz and arrives on Netflix for the first time in October 2026, bringing its sumptuous vision of pre-revolutionary Paris to a far wider audience.

Set years before the events of the famous novel, the story follows the young Camille, played by Alice Englert, and Pascal Valmont, played by Nicholas Denton, as two lovers from the Parisian underclass who claw their way into the ruthless world of the aristocracy. As ambition, class, and desire pull them apart, they transform from idealistic romantics into the calculating manipulators readers know as the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, turning love itself into a weapon.

The series revels in opulent costumes, grand interiors, and the cutthroat social games of eighteenth-century France, framing its central romance as a tragedy of corruption and survival. Though its Starz run was short-lived, Dangerous Liaisons offers a handsome, melodramatic companion to one of literature's great stories of manipulation, and its arrival on Netflix gives the period piece a fresh life. It streams on Netflix.