Aliza Angelica
I regret watching this show. If it weren't for curiosity I'd never have ! Except for a few scenes which I found funny; the whole series was abominably lame !! The idea of the this series was a great one, the execution however was poor. The characters just weren't themselves. The acting was okay-ish especially the woman who played Mrs. Bennet was so annoying. Bingley felt more like a pervert than a gentleman especially in the beginning and later on becomes a drunkard.Amanda, who is shown to be such a huge fan of Pride and Prejudice; claims to know everything of it by heart and loves what its all about, doesn't know how to behave once she gets inside it. And why in the world do Mr. and Mrs. Bennet believe her so easily and let her stay at their house ? Heck, they believe every stupid excuse she tells them. And it just wasn't explainable why everyone kept falling for Amanda !! I found her highly intolerable. I'm sure its a dream of every P&P fan to go inside it but I can bet no one would have behaved as stupidly as she does. And as if it wasn't painful enough having to watch her idiocy, we are then given the suffering of having to watch every man in the story fall for her. I'd expected so much more from LIA. It was a letdown, the ending to be specific, I wouldn't have mind seeing Mr. Darcy with any other woman if she'd been likable. I'd much rather Amanda has settled everything back to normal and returned to her place for good !Shameful. Its a pity I had to see this.. thing. Poor Jane Austen.
sbjalr0812-745-637907
Coin Furth is just a guy who plays Mr. Darcy but Elliot Cowan becomes the real Mr Darcy who doesn't know he is a character in a book that will one day become Pride and Prejudice. He managed to make me sympathetic even though with the balance of the events mixed up the reasons Mr. Darcy goes from being a unsympathetic to sympathetic character are kind of gone. The concept is cool and I think the casting was spot on but I think that the redemption doesn't really happen. In the end it's just entertainment but it's fun, and Amanda is like most women who deserve to find their own Mr Darcy rather than marry someone who doesn't love them.
nechievelasco
Abominable. I regret ever having watched this, I only did it out of curiosity. It is so twisted that even the very soul of P&P has been lost.There was nothing to love about Darcy in this movie -- the movie never showed the goodness in his character and his heart, he just fell in love with Amanda even though he despised her. DUH? He neither helped Lydia nor Jane, and worse, he proposed to Caroline Bingley, who was, in the movie, a lesbian! And I cringe at the cheap imitation of the lake scene. Elizabeth Bennet was totally out of the movie, except in the first 10 minutes and the last 10 minutes of the movie. And there are worse things... Jane got married to Collins. Their marriage made a drunkard out of Charles Bingley who eloped with Lydia and almost killed Mr. Bennet. And the good guy is Wickham! The movie had Georgiana confessing that she made up the story about the planned elopement and Wickham was the one helping Amanda all throughout in the movie.I was actually half expecting Amanda to end up with Wickham, or at least wake up from a bad dream. But she ends up with Darcy!Badly done! Badly done indeed.
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.
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