GALLERY: The women of Harlots

24 September 2018

GALLERY: The women of Harlots

Admire them for their cunning and their corsetry, their grit and their will to survive. The ladies, harlots and brothel owners in this addictive British period drama will steal your heart and mess with your mind. Love them or hate them, you’ll be rooting for them to get the upper hand in the filthy, frightening London of the 18th-Century, where only the toughest and cleverest women prevailed.

Harlots S1-2 is first and only on Showmax.

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