It’s Austen’s last novel, and she had barely managed to get the main characters and plot mechanisms in place before she stopped working on it in March 1817, likely due to illness. Sanditon has an unusual history compared with the more familiar Austens - your Pride and Prejudices, your Emmas. Then, at the end, Sanditon makes choices that will leave most viewers feeling, at best, extremely perplexed. It’s adapted in ways that feel smart and human, while also pumping some helpful friction into the story. It’s an exquisite production, both beautiful and thoughtful. The vast majority of Sanditon, a new Jane Austen adaptation debuting this Sunday on PBS’s Masterpiece, will fulfill everything you could ever want in a miniseries version of an Austen novel. Watching Charlotte Heywood (Rose Williams) and Sidney Parker (Theo James) clash and then slowly come together is as appealing an experience as any Austen adaptation in recent memory.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |