Will Mr. Darcy and Amanda patch it up?
Lost in Austen, the time travel twisted bonnet adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice concluded quite satisfactorily last week, and my head is still spinning from the frenetic pace and fast work that our heroine Amanda Price (Jemima Rooper) conducted before the plot could be put right [...]
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Lost in Austen: Review of Episode Four: Amanda Fixes Things at Warp Speed!
Posted in Austen Movies, Lost In Austen, tagged Elliot Cowan, Gemma Arterton, Jane Austen, Jemima Rooper, Lost in Austen, Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice, Pride and Prejudice (1995), Tom Mison, Tom Riley on 29 September 2008 | 6 Comments »
Lost in Austen: Review of Episode Three: Droolgate as Darcy Does the Dip
Posted in Lost In Austen, tagged Elliot Cowan, Jane Austen, Jemima Rooper, Lost in Austen, Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice, Pride and Prejudice (1995) on 22 September 2008 | 2 Comments »
Episode Three of Lost in Austen, ITV’s new twisted bonnet mini-series of Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice aired last week and continued to surprise UK viewers (and those lucky enough to catch a bootleg version online). Our post modern heroine Amanda Price (Jemima Rooper) is getting quite resourceful to survive in the Regency world after Mrs. [...]
Lost in Austen: Review of Episode Two: This Mr. Collins is Really Creepy, fer sure!
Posted in Lost In Austen, tagged Austen Humor, Books, Elliot Cowan, Fiction, Jane Austen, Jemima Rooper, Lost in Austen, Pride and Prejudice on 15 September 2008 | 10 Comments »
Episode two of Lost in Austen, the new ITV television time travel twister mini-series of Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice aired last week in the UK. It continues to make me laugh, and I am drawn into the creative story even though there are so many Austen blunders and inaccuracies to the novel. Honestly, [...]
Lost In Austen: Review of Episode One: My Top 10 Most Improbable Surprises
Posted in Lost In Austen, tagged Austen Humor, Jane Austen, Lost in Austen, Pride and Prejudice on 8 September 2008 | 6 Comments »
A twisted bonnet parody of Pride and Prejudice airs on UK television! What would Jane Austen think?
The first episode of the new time travel twister Lost in Austen aired in the UK this last week. The advance publicity of the production gave me serious doubts as to its possible success. The reviews from the press [...]
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A new four part television mini-series based on Jane Austen's famous novel Pride and Prejudice aired in the UK in September 2008 to mixed critical reception. I liked it! You can read all four of my reviews on each episode by following the links listed below.
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