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Z: The Beginning of Everything
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Z: The Beginning of Everything

Tue, Nov 3, 2015
  • Drama
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Synopsis

A biography series based on the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, the brilliant, beautiful and talented Southern Belle who becomes the original flapper and icon of the wild, flamboyant Jazz Age in the 20s. Z starts before Zelda Fitzgerald meets the unpublished writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and moves through their passionate, turbulent love affair and their marriage-made in heaven, lived out in hell as the celebrity couple of their time.

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Cast

Top of the call sheet

  • Christina Ricci
    Christina Ricci
    as Zelda Fitzgerald
  • David Hoflin
    David Hoflin
    as F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • David Strathairn
    David Strathairn
    as Anthony Sayre
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Episodes

1 season · 10 episodes

Ended · 10 aired
Season 1
10 episodes · 10 aired
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  • E1
    Pilot
    Aired · Thu, Nov 5, 2015 · 28m

    Zelda Sayre is a free-spirited and flamboyant 18-year-old woman living in Montgomery, Alabama, in the year 1918. Zelda wants a bigger and better life and she's on the look out for an escape route. Zelda's stern father, Anthony, tries to keep her flamboyance suppressed which only makes her challenge his authority. During an evening out at a going-away-dance for soldiers embarking to France to fight in World War I, Zelda meets novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and is Zelda's intrigued by him quickly, but doesn't respond to his advances.

  • E2
    Just Humans
    Aired · Fri, Jan 27, 2017 · 29m

    As Scott pursues Zelda in Montgomery, she must decide what she can sacrifice to be with him.

  • E3
    The Right Side of Paradise
    Aired · Fri, Jan 27, 2017 · 28m

    Despite living worlds apart, Scott and Zelda grow closer. Zelda tries to decide if she loves him enough to uproot her whole life.

  • E4
    You, Me and Us
    Aired · Fri, Jan 27, 2017 · 26m

    Zelda arrives in NYC to marry Scott. They celebrate their new life with all his Big City friends.

  • E5
    The It Girl
    Aired · Fri, Jan 27, 2017 · 24m

    Zelda changes her look and finds her new identity as she tries to fit in with her new high-life in New York City.

  • E6
    Lights! Camera! Fitzgerald!
    Aired · Fri, Jan 27, 2017 · 28m

    Zelda flirts with Hollywood when she does a screen test for a big director.

  • E7
    Where There Are Friends, There Are Riches
    Aired · Fri, Jan 27, 2017 · 28m

    Scott and Zelda go to Princeton for a reunion filled with emotion.

  • E8
    Playing House
    Aired · Fri, Jan 27, 2017 · 29m

    Scott and Zelda get away to a Westport vacation house so Scott can write. They have New York friends over for a party.

  • E9
    Quicksand
    Aired · Fri, Jan 27, 2017 · 25m

    Scott and Zelda work through rising marital tensions at their Westport house.

  • E10
    Best of All
    Aired · Fri, Jan 27, 2017 · 28m

    Scott and Zelda take a road trip back to Montgomery in an attempt to mend their marriage.