When a young woman and her family assist some people who have a carriage accident, she is invited to Sanditon. She is suddenly thrust into a center of conflict where her new acquaintance is trying to build a development of businesses and living quarters, but needs funding from a matriarch and a rather severe brother. She watches from a distance as the family vies for the old lady's money. She is in the driver's seat and uses her power to make them miserable.
20 Reviews
If a girl cannot find adventure at home . . .
CostanzaPiccolomini27 January 2020
Delightful beginning episode: a carriage overturns and falls off the road, setting up the story ...who but Andrew Davies would have this accident interrupt the heroine's rabbit hunting? No Elmer Fudd, she! Readers of Austen and fans of other film adaptations will know that "falling" is a motif which happens typically well into a story. What does it mean? Something to ponder. Thus Charlotte is spirited off to a seaside resort for some adventure. Though Charlotte is at first mistaken for a "new maid" by Sidney, her future love-interest, all goes well...not! Lots of plot twists and dashed expectations, not your purist Austen but irresistible nevertheless. Recommend purchasing PBS passport so you can binge all 8 episodes, because you will not appreciate being on pins and needles from week to week! (ps--posted a version of this review at first by mistake on the Episode 7 page; #7 is my favorite for the lovely, intense rowing scene with Sidney & Charlotte notwithstanding the intrusion of villainous Mrs Campion who serves as a rock in the road to true Austenesque love)
Love a fantastic period drama
jody_butcher10 January 2020
Why all the modern hairstyles??
pemberley-910597 February 2023
Regency hairstyles featured soft chignons, ringlets and curls decorated with headbands and fillets. There are plenty of fashion plates available today that were published in the regency era in England. The French national library, for example, has a brilliant online collection with every fashion plate from every issue of Costume Parisian starting from about 1800. The Regency was from 1811 through 1820. There are none which show the figure with her hair down about her shoulders. Why do television continue to get such a simple thing wrong?? It's jarring and takes this viewer right out of the regency era.
A must watch show
okiesoonersln19 February 2020
Beautiful series
joannapapalii2 March 2020
Charlotte goes to Sanditon
kbowles-3758926 January 2020
Slow at first, then picked up
Asper1214 January 2020
The start of something wonderful
dharvy-0498511 March 2020
Welcom to Sanditon
paulabporter21 June 2020
Charlotte is lovely
maryesther-9490818 June 2020
One of the most beautiful productions!
lubnafq21 June 2020
An adventure awaits!
valriejeann19 June 2020
Must watch
kmcostigan18 June 2020
love this show
kirron_kayani19 June 2020
Fantastic show!
auntlinny8 August 2020
Great Period Drama
stinnion11 February 2021
Sanditon is a new, fresh take on Jane Austen
cmsausten11 February 2021
I have watched every adaptation of Jane Austen's novels several times over the years. I love her wit and complex characters.
Sanditon was her last, unfinished novel before her death. I had never explored this story before.
Andrew Davies, who brought us Pride and Prejudice starring Colin Firth, had adapted Sanditon and it is a delight.
I have new "friends" to get to know. The story takes to a new seaside resort in the time of change in Britain....entrepreneurs and industrialists are changing England.
Sanditon has wit, wonderful characters, intrigue, a cranky dowager, fancy balls, a cricket match, a regatta, and romance. The journey to Sanditon is extraordinary..
Sanditon has wit, wonderful characters, intrigue, a cranky dowager, fancy balls, a cricket match, a regatta, and romance. The journey to Sanditon is extraordinary..
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