Bridgerton is getting plenty of attention for its brazen sexiness, but Poldark was steaming up Sunday nights on PBS long before the Netflix series came along. Set in the late 1700s, the series follows Captain Ross Poldark as he returns to Cornwall after the Revolutionary War to find his father is dead, the woman he loves married his cousin, and his family's fortunes have all but dried up.
This leads to plenty of brooding on the part of Ross, but Poldark's greatest asset isn't its protagonist but rather the fierce Demelza Carne. Demelza begins the series as Ross's maid, but the sizzling chemistry between them soon becomes too much to resist, leading to a complex love story about two flawed people that plays out over five dramatic seasons of quality television.
Watch Poldark on Amazon Prime Video.