Astute readers might notice that I’ve watched a fair few things on Netflix recently. I cancelled my subscription last year over the whole Dave Chapelle thing but had to resubscribe because I feel weirdly professionally obliged to watch Bridgerton and then forgot to unsubscribe again because that’s ... Read more »
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The Austathon – Sense and Sensibility (1981)
Fun fact: the woman who played Elinor in this adaption of Sense and Sensibility played Charlotte Lucas in the same year’s adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. And, actually, you know what? Fair play. There’s a tendency when making a visual medium product with a heroine whose thing is that she’s not ... Read more »
The Austathon – Pride and Prejudice (1980)
I watched this series on a DVD that I had to import from the Netherlands and because I haven’t watched a DVD in literal years I couldn’t quite work out how to turn the subtitles off, which meant I wound up restarting the DVD and watching its mandatory intro reel about ten times. As a result, my ... Read more »
Metabridgerton
I vaguely considered writing something about Bridgerton eighteen months ago because it was the big thing in romance at the time and it seemed like every Ambitious Mama and Determined Batchelor on the internet was required to have a take on it, and I kind of didn’t have one. Or rather I did, but ... Read more »
The Austathon – Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980)
This is going to be either a really short or a really long post because I kind of have nothing to say about this film but I also feel I could say nothing about it at great length. Very, very technically speaking Jane Austen in Manhattan is an adaption of a work by Jane Austen. Where to ... Read more »
The Austathon – Emma (1972)
This is a difficult adaptation to talk about because I had very mixed feelings about it. It’s another BBC adaptation, from the same person who did Sense and Sensibility (1971) but not the same person who did Persuasion (1971). That was Granada, which may explain why it seems to have had a much ... Read more »
The Austathon – Persuasion (1971) + Bonus Content
So, last post I mused about why there was a thirty-year gap between the 1940s Pride & Prejudice and any other Jane Austen adaptations. Turns out, there isn’t. Because there were three other Pride and Prejudices (Prides and Prejudices?) in the 40s, 50s, and 60s. These were, not in chronological ... Read more »
The Austathon – Sense and Sensibility (1971)
So this is a four-part mini-series from 1971 that opens with a long shot of lilies on a river that you think is stock footage but then it pans up to show a big country house and you realise that, no, they had some poor bugger pointing a camera at a river for three minutes until they had enough lily ... Read more »