The Confessions of Frannie Langton is a new British LGBTQ period piece drama series featuring a love story between two women and a murder mystery.
It’s a story set in the Georgian Era and it’s about a woman’s quest to prove she is innocent of murder, yet the Confessions of Frannie Langton is essentially a lesbian love story between Frannie (Karla-Simone Spence) and her employer Madame Marguerite Benham (Sophie Cookson).
It’s mysterious, captivating and has a forbidden romance between two women.
“It starts at a dramatic high point with two violent murders being discovered in the Belham’s rather grand household. The master’s body is found in his study, whilst his wife’s very bloody body is found in her bed that she is sharing with Frannie Langton her black ‘secretary/maid/lover’ who is unwittingly fast asleep. A very shocked Frannie is whisked off and thrown in Newgate jail as she insists on claiming her innocence. However, she is addicted to laudanum and so, she is telling all and sundry that she has no recollection of anything at all.
The story is then told in a series of flashbacks which very slowly shed light on how Frannie came to be in London in the first place, and why/how she appeared to be both very articulate and intelligent way beyond what anyone would expect of her.
This is a time in England after Abolition, but before it was illegal to own slaves Frannie is a former slave from Jamaica who is given by her original master, Langton, to the Benham family as a kind of indentured servant, although personally, she feels that she should be treated like the free woman she is.”
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