What a complete load of tosh. Sets and CGI looked really cheap. Acting, in general, wooden but I think that's because actors were struggling with a rotten script. Sex scenes in a Jane Austen! Bloomers and lack of hats - not authentic of the period. No way would women, at that time, be able to go off alone with a man (especially young single ones). Likewise, the main character would not have been able to wander around on her own or go and stay with a couple her parents had just met. Womens' lives then were pretty boring. No depth, humour or real insight into the social politics of the time.
Why was a Jane Austen adaptation given to a man to write in the first place? She was a rare female voice writing about contemporary upper and middle class women. If Andrew Davies wanted to shoehorn in racial and social inequality, incest (a la Game of Thrones), sex scenes and a gay character, why didn't he go off and write a historical drama all of his own?
My personal bugbear is books, films and tv series ending on cliff hangers in a cynical attempt to sell the next sequel.
A complete waste of six hours that we won't be getting back.