Against the backdrop of 18th century England, a massive pox outbreak, and Jacobite uprising – Sir Chauncey Savage and Lady Savage blindly pursue a better life. It's not without a tinge of irony that their family name is the Savages, for this is a Savage House indeed, filled with duels, decadence, and bloodshed.

Richard E. Grant
as Sir Chauncey Savage

Claire Foy
as Lady Savage

Jack Farthing
as Reginald Halifax

Bel Powley
as Dorothy Neville

Kíla Lord Cassidy
as Fanny Savage

Richard McCabe
as Mr. Bennett

Vicki Pepperdine
as Mrs. Bennett

Pip Torrens
as Mr. Black

Robert Bathurst
as The Narrator (voice)

Tony Way
as James Darby
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"Sir Chauncey" (Richard E. Grant) has risen from the pigsty to the elevated world of the landed gentry thanks to a marriage with the impoverished but titled "Lady Savage" (Claire Foy). Having somehow obtained for himself a knighthood, and supported by his ever loyal factotum "Halifax" (Jack Farthing...