The Other Bennet Sister

Everything about this was just delightful! It was cleverly written, with plausible links into the ongoing lives of the pride and prejudice characters. I particularly liked the way that Mr Darcy was not portrayed as dashing, handsome and the way that he remained in the background (deliberately so when the formidable Mrs Bennet was around!). I also liked the way that the sometimes simplistic characters from P&P were shown to have depth. Mr Collins was still odious but revealed hidden doubts; Miss Bingley was still a stuck up bitch but revealed a love for poetry and did a selfless deed at the end.

As we have come to expect these days, the production quality was very high – lovely costumes, lavish settings and some very carefully composed shots reinforced the formal strictures everyone was labouring under – I particularly liked the framing of the final scenes in the garden, with our protagonists perfectly placed either side of the fountain.

The camera work was steady, the peril minor (although the anguish and frustration were intense!) this was a very watchable series and indeed I would be perfectly happy to watch it all over again quite soon