Lost in Austen

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This is Bonkers. I watched about half whilst ironing.
Gotta watch it through. Bonkers but entertaining.
Does it upset the serious Jane fans?

I’ve watched this so many times! I’m the first to complain about poor Austen adaptations and only made it twenty minutes into the Netflix Persuasion before throwing my hands up in horror, but Lost in Austen is pure escapist fluff. Love it!

I can be snobby about Austen adaptations and my grumbles about Netflix's Persuasion is approximately 2000 items long.

But I absolutely love Lost in Austen!

Thought it was witty and fun and touching and gave some interesting new perspectives.

In fact I'm due a re-watch...

I will have to try this. I watched Persuasion yesterday and found I could watch it if I pretended it was just a modern story with period costumes and not well made, despite good actors in it. It had very little connection with the Austen book.

Really love LIA. It's such a great concept and I'm a big fan of Jemima Rooper.
'Elizabeth Bennett is lending me her mobile!'

Lost in Austen is fab. Love it.

The thing that pee'd a lot of people off about Persuasion is that it claimed it was a film of the book, but really wasn't. If they'd called it something else, like a play on the word persuasion, people probably wouldn't have been so up in arms.

Lost in Austen is clearly not meant to be an adaption, but something vaguely related to Austen, so can be taken for the fun it is.

The recent Persuasion adaptation is absolute dog shit.

I am a Very Serious Jane fan and I love Lost in Austen!

I don't know how to ever got made, but I'm so glad it did 😁

Yes I enjoyed it too; I had expected to have found it annoying.

I am a Jane Austen purist and really enjoyed this, it's a nice tribute. Twig toothbrushes 😂