I really enjoyed The Other Bennet Sister on Netflix. It takes the rarely mentioned Mary Bennet from Pride and Prejudice and gives her a narrative all we socially awkward ladies can appreciate.
It keeps all the other characters much the same. (Darcy’s my favorite. He has no lines. Just pained facial expressions.)
I hear that next year, instead of having another series set in the same family (even though Kitty Bennet had almost no attention paid to her), the writers are pivoting to the family in Persuasion.
I don’t remember a damn thing about Persuasion. A romance erstwhile discouraged by a family is then rekindled. I’ll need to do some homework. Tiresome. Why not go on with the Bennets? Next up could be a prequel covering the former misadventures of Lady Catherine de Bourgh.
Or, why stick with Austen? What’s Adele Rochester been up to? Being a cheap French whore like her mom? Maybe there’s a story where she and St. John Rivers start up a correspondence but then it all goes awry when he gets Rosamond pregnant, lusty prig that he is.
And what about crossovers? What if Adele has a ménage à trois with Heathcliff … and … Mr. Collins? That could happen — well, no, it couldn’t. We might need to bring in Willoughby.
Well, until they pull that together there’s a Bonus Christmas episode of The Other Bennet sister on tap.