koh-i-noor1410
After seeing the trailer I was very excited. Everything that is connected to Jane Austen and her novels will raise an interest. But as much as Jane Austen's book club succeeded in creating a link between our time and Victorian age this TV show as failed.The main character, Miss Amanda Price introduces herself as wanting to live in that time, but when she actually gets there she is vulgar, out of place and does everything wrong. That could be accepted since she had received no education but the worst comes when Pride and Prejudice main characters behave completely OFF character! Jane is no longer the good girl who hides her feeling who sees good in everybody instead she goes and cries in front of people during society gathering?? And it's just one example. Everything is wrong. The person who wrote this script clearly doesn't understand the rules of behaving in society and completely destroyed the spirit and what made Pride and Prejudice so special. It ruined it all and the plot therefore becomes really poor. A shame and a pity for it could have been a good idea.I am going to watch Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth as Mister Darcy right now in order to completely forget about this show.
ecogirlveghead
I didn't make the mistake of reading reviews before watching this so I went in with no expectations. Before going any further I have to admit to having watched the 90's version of P & P and read the novel dozens of times. A true Austen freak, I am.Like other reviewers, at first I was offended by the crudeness and lack of tact displayed by the Amanda character when she entered the world of the novel. How dare any true Austen fan behave in a way that displays such ignorance of Lizzie's world? She should have fit right in. But then I realized the choice to NOT make Amanda a perfect Eliza Bennet clone made for a much more dynamic story and more amusing moments between the characters. Instead of giving her the perfect accent, the perfect deportment, and the perfect manners right from the start, it took her some time to fit in. Her clumsy manner and bluntness caused her to make some mistakes that would seem impossible for a true Austen fan but enabled unexpected twists and turns in the story. And its these twists and the what ifs that I loved. I loved that the wrong people fell in love. I love that everything she thought was supposed to happen didn't happen. If I wanted to watch a P & P imitation, I would just watch the real thing again. I found the movie Becoming Jane, which attempted to follow a truer Jane Austen style, to be a sappy and insipid imitation that was truly forgettable and predictable. No one else can do Jane Austen and Lost in Austen doesn't try to. Instead, its fun and impertinent in a way that I think Jane herself would appreciate.
Corona Laura
This is one of those series that could count as a guilty pleasure. It tailors to the needs of young women that look for romance as it's written in Jane Austen novels. Of course, reality (and reality in Jane Austen's time) is quite different. The series is funny, sometimes over the top. Jemima Rooper (Amanda Price) plays a character you dislike a first. I simply couldn't believe she'd be the one to upend Elizabeth Bennet. That she'd be good enough to take her place. But then suddenly you end up wanting her to win Darcy's hart.If you can suspend your disbelief for a little bit, just sit back and enjoy the show.
Amy Adler
Amanda Price (Jemima Rooper) is a typical British twenty-something. She has a steady but unimaginative boyfriend and an it-pays-my-bills kind of job. But, what she really longs for is a great love and a worthwhile life, like the one of her most admired heroine, Elizabeth Bennett of the fictional Pride and Prejudice. She deeply loves Jane Austen, Mr. Darcy and the Georgian manners of 200 years hence. So, one day, after she receives the most unsophisticated of marriage proposals from her fellow, she retreats to her room to think. There, unbelievably, is Miss Lizzie Bennett herself, who leads Amanda through a wardrobe and into the gardens of Longbourne, home to the Bennetts. Once there, Lizzie closes the door and there is no going back. Now, Amanda is living with the other four Bennett daughters and Lizzie is in 21st century London. As it appears, Mr. Bingley has just moved into Netherfield Hall with his sister, Caroline and Mr. Darcy, mimicking the start of the novel. Therefore, Amanda is confident that she will be privy to her favorite book's events. Not so! Her arrival as an outsider seems to work havoc, for Mr. Bingley seems more interested in Amanda than in Jane Bennett, his future fiancée, and it is Mr. Collins, instead, who succeeds in attracting the lovely Jane, leaving Charlotte Lucas in tears. Mr. Darcy is sour and prickly, more so than even the book allows, and he seems totally uninterested in love. How can Amanda set things right and make it back to her own century, too? This is a nice take on Jane Austen's beloved book, P and P, and its much-loved characters. The lesson learned is that we may envy the happily ever after of books but its not reality and it may not satisfy real people. Or does it? That said, it is such fun to see, as Amanda does, Austen's memorable cast fall for the wrong people and set off a delightful, unexpected mayhem. Eliciting sighs, too, is the gorgeous scenery, costuming, and photography while the script-direction are clever and lively. Therefore, if you are an Austen fan, which may well include nearly everyone, you will be glad to embrace this new companion piece.
