Poldark Season 5: Everything You Need to Know
Find out all about Poldark Season 5’s release date, cast, and plot, see the trailer, and find out where we left off and how to stream all 5 seasons! Watch the September 29 premiere on MASTERPIECE on PBS.
Poldark‘s Season 5 premiere will mark the beginning of Ross Poldark’s long ride into the sunset and out of our lives. Here’s everything you need to know about the new and final season of the show that’s had us hanging on the edge of a cliff ever since the very first episode!
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Where We Left Off
In Season 4’s unforgettable finale, Elizabeth drank a highly dangerous labor-inducing potion and delivered a small but healthy daughter, Ursula. This early birth, like her brother’s, finally convinced George of Valentine’s parentage. But in a gruesome and tragic turn, the potion’s side effects killed Elizabeth. Not even Drake and Morwenna’s sweet, affirming marriage or Caroline’s tentative revelation to Dwight that she’s ready to try for another child could make up for Elizabeth’s cruel death. And thusly our tricorns overfloweth’d with tears.
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Where We Pick Up
After Elizabeth’s harrowing death, Ross and Demelza are committed to a simple life of family, fishing, and friends (and of course, mining). But the simple life, as always, can’t hold our hero, and news that an old friend is in trouble turns Ross’ tricorn toward London, where adventure—and misadventure—await! With Ross away, Demelza is in charge at Nampara and the mine, and a fiercely ambitious young housemaid worms her way into Demelza’s life and her trust.
George is haunted by Elizabeth’s death, but even his fathomless grief isn’t powerful enough to prevent him from taking business meetings with Ralph Hanson, an unsavory mahogany trader whose business is built on the backs of enslaved people. But Hanson’s daughter is as fresh as her father is foul, as Geoffrey Charles observes…
As for our favorite newlyweds, the Carnes, and trulyweds, the Enyses, both couples still have old demons to exorcise and wounds to heal. Will the future bring them happiness, or will they be tested yet again?
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Meet the New Characters
Kitty Despard (Kerri McLean) and Ned Despard (Vincent Regan)
Ned Despard is Ross’ old friend and colonel from the army, and the man who saved Ross’ life when he earned that iconic scar. Now a governor in British Honduras, his abolitionist views have made him a target of the wealthy and powerful. His wife, Kitty, was Ned’s kitchen maid before they fell in love and married…something Demelza can certainly appreciate!
Ralph Hanson (Peter Sullivan) and Cecily Hanson (Lily Dodsworth-Evans)
Wealthy mahogany merchant Ralph Hanson is seeking a new backer to fund his enterprise abroad, and George Warleggan may be his ideal investor, as well as a potential husband for his daughter, Cecily. But the spirited abolitionist Cecily has other ideas!
Tess Tregidden (Sofia Oxenham)
A former housemaid at Trenwith, Tess Tregidden is hired at Nampara, but rather be glad of her fortune, she seethes with jealousy over all that Demelza has, when their backgrounds are so similar. As a farm hand at Nampara, she’s like a fox in the henhouse.
Joseph Merceron (Tim Dutton)
Joseph is a powerful and enterprising magistrate with connections and influence throughout the social and political tiers of London.
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Watch the Official Trailer
Risk it all, one last time…Get ready for the final season of Poldark, coming to MASTERPIECE on PBS on Sunday, September 29 at 9/8c!
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Do you have a friend or family member whose life could use a little swashbuckling and romance? Make a Cornwall Conversion by recommending Poldark! Share the joy or watch it all over again—all 4 seasons are available to stream with PBS Passport, an added member benefit. Learn more!
