Name: The Luminaries
Released: 2020-05-17T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Eva Green, Himesh Patel, Marton Csokas

TV Show · Mystery · Adventure

Based on the Man Booker prize-winning novel by Eleanor Catton and starring Eva Green, Eve Hewson and Himesh Patel, ‘The Luminaries’ is an intricately woven, suspenseful tale of love, murder, magic and revenge set on the wild West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island at the height of the 1860s gold rush.

2020 · 52m

Starring Eva Green, Himesh Patel, Marton Csokas

Director Claire McCarthy

EPISODE 1

Fingerprint

1865, two young adventurers, Anna Wetherell and Emery Staines, meet on the last day of their voyage to New Zealand. They make a plan to reunite but are kept apart by agents with their own designs.

51 min
EPISODE 2

The Place You Return

Lydia and Carver hatch a plan to free Carver from his convict past. Emery sets sail to the goldfields in search of Anna. In 1866, the results of Crosbie Wells’ autopsy are revealed.

50 min
EPISODE 3

Leverage

Anna’s suspicion is aroused as Lydia prepares to host a party. Lauderback is blackmailed. In 1866, Crosbie Wells is buried.

49 min
EPISODE 4

The Other Half

1865, Emery and Anna have a disastrous reunion in Hokitika, Emery learns about Carver’s past and Quee makes a rewarding discovery. In 1866, hope is fading for Anna; in desperation she takes matters into her own hand.

48 min
EPISODE 5

Paradox

1866, Emery is inexplicably wounded. A stranger arrives in town and interrupts a secret council between the men of Hokitika. The events from the night Crosbie Wells died are pieced together.

50 min
EPISODE 6

The Old Moon in the Young Moon's Arms

New evidence reveals a secret connection between Lauderback and Crosbie Wells. Emery is found. Moody, Anna and he concoct a defense to expose Lydia and Carver’s crimes.

50 min