ORBzine - Lost In Austen TV Review
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Lost In Austen [Season 1, Episode 1]
Shown th September 2008 [Wednesday]
Life on Mars for girlies. Based on the fact that Bridget Jones movie is nothing but a modern take on Emma, modern girl
Alex Kingston is magnificent as the matriarch.
Lost In Austen [Season 1, Episode 2]
Shown th September 2008 [Wednesday]
Christina Cox pops up as the bitchy sister of a potential suitor. Ironic that Cox was the central character in Hex , and now appears to have switched places with her former sidekick.
Lost In Austen [Season 1, Episode 3]
Shown th September 2008 [Wednesday]
Lost In Austen [Season 1, Episode 4]
Shown th September 2008 [Wednesday]
Jemima Rooper finally returns to the Modern Day.
Elizabeth Bennett has adapted tolerably well to the world. She's a nanny - a suitable job for a young lady, considering once she would have aspired to be a Governess.
The people of the Georgian era seem archaic, especially when one considers that Shelley (Percy or Mary, take your pick) lived in that era. We must remember that Jane Austen was a cloistered maid when she wrote her works, herself writing about a very limited class of persons in a provincial country area.
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