Poor Jane Austin is rolling in her grave.
Season 1: What started out as relatively charming is ruined by an over crowded storyline with as jumbled a mishmash as they could manage, lifting storylines intact from other Jane Austin novels and making them worse. No social norms are observed. Young ladies alone with men, running off with few or no consequences, no chaperones in sight, ever, young ladies calling other ladies and gentlemen they're not connected to (or have even interacted with at any point in the story) by family ties by their first names and vice versa. Remembering to bow and curtesy forgotten 99% of the time. Our main character so abused the hospitality of her hosts so egregiously, she'd have been sent home in disgrace yet she's never even admonished. I keep watching because of the horror of the thing is kind of magnetic. Let's not forget the shades of incest and graphic sex without nudity. In a Jane Austin story. A Jane Austin story. Everything has to have graphic sex these days.
Season 2: Our leading man does not return in a ridiculous turn of events that erase his sacrifice in season 1. A RADICAL shift of character for one gentleman from a slightly silly hypochondriac drunkard into a much more stable, and obliquely gay character. He was my favorite part of season 1. Gotta tick that box tho. Of course everyone is trying to push marriage on both young female leads who want to be modern independent women so unlike any Austin heroine. They're overly bold with total strangers, obnoxious, and rude. Our lead, against all normal behaviors, hares off into the plot of Jane Ayre, again against the wishes of her hosts and without consulting her father, a thing that would lead to social disaster for both families with no thought of the consequences despite having them pointed out to her, but hey ho... let's just make up the rules as we go along. Apparently the writers got their novelists mixed up. Meanwhile, the entire plot is also incorporating parts of Pride and Prejudice. And the incest siblings are back so character development is moving backwards as a redemption arc is destroyed. Meanwhile, we have a cousin pregnant by the brother turning up in episode 3.
What an unholy mess. I'm basically hate watching at this point. I'm sure it will come out rosy in the end because our main character, by her divine power of being a pretty and rude young lady melts hearts and fixes every problem... except the poor young architect whose heart she stole and trampled in season 1.
Season 1: What started out as relatively charming is ruined by an over crowded storyline with as jumbled a mishmash as they could manage, lifting storylines intact from other Jane Austin novels and making them worse. No social norms are observed. Young ladies alone with men, running off with few or no consequences, no chaperones in sight, ever, young ladies calling other ladies and gentlemen they're not connected to (or have even interacted with at any point in the story) by family ties by their first names and vice versa. Remembering to bow and curtesy forgotten 99% of the time. Our main character so abused the hospitality of her hosts so egregiously, she'd have been sent home in disgrace yet she's never even admonished. I keep watching because of the horror of the thing is kind of magnetic. Let's not forget the shades of incest and graphic sex without nudity. In a Jane Austin story. A Jane Austin story. Everything has to have graphic sex these days.
Season 2: Our leading man does not return in a ridiculous turn of events that erase his sacrifice in season 1. A RADICAL shift of character for one gentleman from a slightly silly hypochondriac drunkard into a much more stable, and obliquely gay character. He was my favorite part of season 1. Gotta tick that box tho. Of course everyone is trying to push marriage on both young female leads who want to be modern independent women so unlike any Austin heroine. They're overly bold with total strangers, obnoxious, and rude. Our lead, against all normal behaviors, hares off into the plot of Jane Ayre, again against the wishes of her hosts and without consulting her father, a thing that would lead to social disaster for both families with no thought of the consequences despite having them pointed out to her, but hey ho... let's just make up the rules as we go along. Apparently the writers got their novelists mixed up. Meanwhile, the entire plot is also incorporating parts of Pride and Prejudice. And the incest siblings are back so character development is moving backwards as a redemption arc is destroyed. Meanwhile, we have a cousin pregnant by the brother turning up in episode 3.
What an unholy mess. I'm basically hate watching at this point. I'm sure it will come out rosy in the end because our main character, by her divine power of being a pretty and rude young lady melts hearts and fixes every problem... except the poor young architect whose heart she stole and trampled in season 1.