Netflix’s New Historical Drama Officially Expands Beyond Its Beloved Source Material

Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence has endured for more than a century because its central conflict remains frustratingly timeless. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel follows Newland Archer, a wealthy attorney torn between the respectable life expected of him and his feelings for the unconventional Ellen Olenska, all while his fiancée, May Welland, understands considerably more than anyone gives her credit for. Netflixis now revisiting that complicated love triangle with a new limited series that will have more room to explore its characters than previous adaptations.