I was very much enjoying the show the whole time, till the last few minutes of the finale.
I definitely binge watched it, so it was good, but I can't say I absolutely loved it. It had so many lovely qualities that you hope for out of a period piece romantic drama. Hot people, nice scenery, good costumes, very accurately and realistically written characters, emotional nuance, but it had a few issues. With so many characters in only a 6 hour series, it never really feels like you get to know any of the characters experiences and thoughts intimately enough. You watch everything as an outside viewer and you might as well know as much about Charlotte as some random person at one of these balls who watches things play out. For how much it sucks for her, I don't empathize nearly as much as I would expect to. Enemies to lovers is a marvelous trope but Sidney's character is pretty much a shallow asshole from start to finish under the guise of familial duty; there is nothing redeeming about him. In fact, I'm glad she doesn't end up with him because I imagine if she did marry him, it would only be a few years before she has a couple babies, he gets caught up in gambling, addiction, whoring, and affairs but she's trapped with him and is absolutely fucking miserable. Good riddance.
Utterly banal and two - dimensional, literally in the case of the dodgy CGI backgrounds, historical inaccuracy abounds in music, dance and costume. Andrew Davies has officially lost it.
7/10 good
Downton abbey it isn’t
Jane Austin faithful it isn’t
But it does manage to give us a good period piece to watch……
Yes some modern day standards and believes have been shoehorned in, but they managed to do it without being overly blatant about.
Yes you can sit there and pick away at the accuracy of storylines, costumes and many other things, but the writers have managed to weave it all together and just about fit.
Season one, was a good start and had the unfinished book to work from…
Season two, needed to deal with the lose of one of its main characters and did lose its way a little…
Season three, was a great improvement and very very heartwarming and did manage to find its feet again. Sadly it did start to lay on the pc/woke a little heavy handily, but each time it was briefly done and moved on!!!
It’s a shame it’s came to an end, I think it could have gone 1 or 2 more seasons from where it was left….
P.s the very fine scene was not needed, it was put in to please the pc/woke/feminists out there….
For me it took away from the splendid slow motion scene prior, which was the true ending….
[Filmin] Directly betrays the spirit of Jane Austen, inventing inclusive and "contemporary" plots that are sustained by unlikely characters. Season 2, already without the creator Andrew Davies and without the protagonist Theo James, makes a teacup soap opera that simplifies the story to boring and predictable romantic plots and seems to want to reflect on the success of "Bridgerton" (2020).
Shout by amasulemVIP 5BlockedParent2019-10-15T00:52:03Z
Great little drama. Finishing off the unfinished novel in a typically c21st fashion. No Austen derived production can be wholly faithful, and this one revels in that, and makes a modern piece that is about the dramatic potential of what there was there for us today. If you didn't like it read the partial book and come up with your own, as many have done. Of course many say it wasn't Austen at the conclusion. NSS.