Z: The Beginning of Everything — 2015–2017 · 1 season · 10 eps

★ 7.0

Z: The Beginning of Everything

Name: Z: The Beginning of Everything
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Released: 2015
Rating: 7.0

2015–2017 1 season 10 episodes

★ 7.0 (5,123 votes) Bottom 30%

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 Z starts before Zelda Fitzgerald meets the unpublished writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and moves through their passionate, turbulent love affair and their marriage-made in heaven, lived out in hell as the celebrity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.

Z: The Beginning of Everything

2015–2017 1 season 10 eps

★ 7.0 (5K) Bottom 30%

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S1E1 7.2

Pilot

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.

S1E4 7.2

You, Me and Us

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

S1E5 7.2

The It Girl

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

#4 Quicksand S1E9 7.2

#5 Playing House S1E8 7.1

#6 Best of All S1E10 7.0

#7 Just Humans S1E2 6.9

#8 Lights! Camera! Fitzgerald! S1E6 6.9

#9 The Right Side of Paradise S1E3 6.8

#10 Where There Are Friends, There Are Riches S1E7 6.8

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#10 S1E7 Where There Are Friends, There Are Riches 6.8

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

#9 The Right Side of Paradise S1E3 6.8

#8 Lights! Camera! Fitzgerald! S1E6 6.9

#7 Just Humans S1E2 6.9

#6 Best of All S1E10 7.0

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