The glittering chandeliers in the ballrooms of London’s one-percenters are given a good throttle by sordid and tragic revelations in the new Julian Fellowes’ melodrama “Belgravia.” The British series premiered in four installments in March across the pond; in the US, it will play in six episodes on Epix. “Downton Abbey” it can never be, but housebound Anglophiles craving clipped phrasing, characters named Peregrine and the painstaking execution of genteel aristocratic customs may find welcome distraction.
Like much of Lord Fellowes’ work, the story concerns a clash of people from different classes. Remember Lady Sybil and Tom Branson from “Downton”?
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