The Other Bennet Sister starts tonight on BBC1 8pm

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Seemingly unremarkable and often overlooked, Mary Bennet longs to win her family’s approval.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qkp3

Is this going to be a spoof or some sort of spin off ?

2nd episode tonight at 8:30

Couldn't see a thread so hope this isn't a duplicate!

Miss Bingley is a nasty bully. She knows how to upset Mary. I hope a seagull eats her bonnet.

I binged it too today. I loved that they squeezed in the part where Mary connects more deeply with Mr Collins and gently advised Charlotte to be be a bit kinder to him.

Also, however awful Mrs Bennett was, I'm glad she got the chance to express the real anxiety beneath all her scheming. And Caroline Bingley was humanised too.

I thought it was really well made and a delight to watch.

Finished. It was nicely done.

This was just delightful. I'm only sorry I've binged it all in one go, I wish I'd eeked it out a little longer.

I really loved the way Mary was portrayed and how her character developed. I also thought Ruth Jones was a brilliant Mrs Bennet!

Anyone know which house has been used for Pemberly?

Binge watched this and loved it! Wish there was another few episodes for some closure though as I hate not knowing what comes next.

I don't know about outside but I did think that the inside first hall reminded me of the house where Alexander Colbourne used to look out of the windows to the right of the front door!

Badminton House in Gloucestershire according to the internet.

Or craps on her. It was filmed in Wales mostly and they have vicious seagulls!

As a viola player, I loved that they picked viola for the theme! I mentioned this to DH who immediately quipped, Ah, the other string instrument 😂😂.

Im saving the last episode until the morning but i have really enjoyed this series. Touching and funny and some very good actors showing familiar characters in a different way.

Regency Walsh sisters, less rehab, same dynamic

I think Lizzie Bennet blew out a candle in one go in 1995 and Emma blew one out in 2020, also I think with just one blow, so I smiled when Mary had to have two goes in this.

Loved this! Nice light touch and ten episodes perfect. I want to live with the Gardners. Who could be next candidate for rewriting? Harriet Smith in Emma?

Of course there were mixed race, indian and non white people in regency England! But you could treat this as race-blind casting too. Or the alternative is to rule out all nonwhite actors from historical drama?

Binged all final episodes today, loved this was very sweet. I liked how they made Mr Collins a more sympathetic character and how she made a kind of peace with Miss Bingley. I do wonder how Jane Austen would have finished Mary's story.
I did think that Ruth Jones didn't look quite old enough to be the girls mother and surprised to see she's 59!
We saw virtually nothing of Mr Darcy and Lizzie making excuses for him. Nothing of Mr Darcy's sister who lived with them but maybe she'd married.
I also thought Mrs Bennett was supposed to be living with Jane not Lizzy.
I need to read the book!

Calm down. I'm not white myself, so it's nice to see. I'm just questioning the historical authenticity. I actually have read about this, and have wondered how common it would be to see a poc.

I was assuming race-blind casting too. I wonder if we all assume otherwise at first thanks to Bridgerton where race is more deliberately cast.

And then walked in to the corner of the bed! That would definitely happen to me 😂.

A perspective from one of the other characters in Persuasion would be interesting.

I've never seen Bridgerton, but I know what you mean. I was wondering how common it would be to come across people who looked like me in Georgian England, although I have read the stats, it's not always a complete story!

Much more likely in London than rural Derbyshire, I imagine! (Well, that's still true).

I’m guessing in port towns it may have been less unusual but in rural Hertfordshire quite unlikely, I was born into a mining village in the North East in the 1980s and I don’t think I saw a person who wasn’t white in real life until I started secondary school!

What did you wonder?

As I explained upthread.
How common it would have been in Regency England for me to have met someone who looked like me, who was not a servant or a tradesperson. As I also mentioned upthread I have looked at the stats, which are not necessarily revealing.
In my life I have been in many situations where I am the only poc. As you can imagine, this leads me to wonder about the situation some 300 years ago.
I hope that is clarification enough for you.

I was meaning that Lizzie and Emma got it right first time, but trust Mary to need to have two goes at it!
Now you have introduced Persuasion you have made me wonder if Anne Elliot has ever blown a candle out in an adaptation. I know the 1995 version used a lot of candlelight and I can clearly see Ciaran Hinds's face lit by candlelight but I don't know if any of them actually blew one out.