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….

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. [spoiler] 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.[/spoiler]

Of course Sanditon is based on an unfinished Jane Austen novel, and that plus the presence of Anne Reid in the cast was enough for me to give it a look.

It certainly has the fingerprints of Jane Austen all over it: young people fall in love at the drop of a hanky, the social politics of marriage and yes, the dancing.

There are plenty of scheming and downright evil men around to keep stirring up trouble. If I break it down I would rate Series One 8.0 out of 10, and Series Two just 6.0 out of 10. The second series just seemed too familiar to me. There were elements of Pride and Prejudice with a couple of the lead characters and Marianne was there showing her heart’s desire and chasing the wrong man again, though she had a different name. Did the writers get lazy and think, “Hey, these are Austen fans, let’s recycle stuff from a couple of her books!”

I guess there is going to be a third series, since they left one of the couple uncoupled at the end of Series 2, and what, is that another man for her standing next to her? Ah well, let the third season handle that and other problems yet to be determined. For me that will leave the lesser problem of whether I bother to give it a try.