Sanditon

[Anonymous]

Anyone watch this? Thoughts?

[Anonymous]

Tried. Got bored and turned it off.

[Anonymous]

Loving it. Since it's from an unfinished novel I think they felt they could take liberties with it... it's saucier than most JA adaptations. Guy who places Sidney Parker is hot.

[Anonymous]

Definitely saucier than other Austen novels!
It’s fun, but seems pretty different than what she would have written.

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Anonymous wrote:Loving it. Since it's from an unfinished novel I think they felt they could take liberties with it... it's saucier than most JA adaptations. Guy who places Sidney Parker is hot.

He was the guy in the Divergent series. Super hot!

I made the mistake of reading the reviews/coverage online. People hated the ending. Hopefully they’re just setting it up for a second series.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Loving it. Since it's from an unfinished novel I think they felt they could take liberties with it... it's saucier than most JA adaptations. Guy who places Sidney Parker is hot.

He was the guy in the Divergent series. Super hot!

I made the mistake of reading the reviews/coverage online. People hated the ending. Hopefully they’re just setting it up for a second series.

And Mr. Pamuk on Downton Abbey.

[Anonymous]

I've seen the whole series while traveling abroad, and have since given up my own free time, my time for work, and attention to my DH/kids' to obsess over every tiny smidgen of detail of this series. I love the Charlotte/Sidney romance so much.

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Also, a bit upset that PBS cut out the shot of Sidney (Theo) walking out of the water slowly, close-up on his bum.

[Anonymous]

Just watched the last episode. What a bummer! I was like WTH? It's a good thing Charlotte's very young. I guess you could look at it like she's got her whole life in front of her.

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And PS what about Miss Lambe? That wasn't resolved either.

[Anonymous]

I loved it! They had planned on it being a series but it didn’t do as well as hoped in the UK. It’s taking off in the US though so fingers crossed for season 2. If you like Jane Austen movies or Downton Abbey-you’ll love it. A tad more “racy” considering there are a few implied sex scenes and a black character.

Charlotte is such a great character and she just gets more interesting as the season goes by, and the woman who plays her does really well. Sidney, well, he’s just so gorgeous, who cares about character development!

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It's on amazon prime now - you can purchase the season, much cheaper than buying a PBS membership.

[Anonymous]

Lots of unfinished strings - hope they get a second season!! Sidney is gorgeous! But aside from the other modern plot points, is he an Austen hero to marry for money? Have to show why that doesn’t work out!

[Anonymous]

It was so disappointing. Not much romance at all. Given the success of Poldark, you’d think they would have played up the romance.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of unfinished strings - hope they get a second season!! Sidney is gorgeous! But aside from the other modern plot points, is he an Austen hero to marry for money? Have to show why that doesn’t work out!

It's already been announced in the UK that there will be no second season because ratings in the UK were not good. Ratings here won't matter because it's only on PBS here -- a self-selecting small group to begin with.

I know you liked it PP but I have to say this somewhere since no one I knew bothered to watch it, unlike other costume dramas that my friends all watched....

I think it doesn't deserve a second season. The program had a few virtues (some good performances, some potentially interesting story threads) and just threw them away episode after episode.

Sidney's choice to marry for money? Out of character, out of the blue, and we were told about it--not shown it. Zero time spent on it. Lazy plotting and writing. Poor Miss Lambe's story was shabbily done overall; she had a fascinating background but was made a grimly one-note character (pining, angry) and essentially sold out to pay her boyfriend's debts; and it seemed that was all just an excuse for writing one exciting rescue scene to show us Sidney's A Hero, after which she was largely shoved out of the story. Lovely Stringer was never given enough to do despite being a potentially interesting case of a man trying to move up honorably in life. I ended up rooting for Esther and Lord B. despite the fact they and their "romance" were so thinly developed. I'm sure some fans will say that obviously Davies, the other writers and producers were expecting a second season in which to get Sidney and Charlotte together etc., but if that's the case, they were astonishingly naive for people who have done this for decades. No program is guaranteed to get a second chance.

So disappointed in Davies, who has done some terrific series in the past. I think his reputation as the king of adaptations blinded people and no one realized how patchy this was without enough source material from Austen (the UK coverage noted that only the first 30 minutes are based on her fragmentary novel, so the remaining faults are all Davies'). Yes, I did watch it all, mostly because of the acting, and the overall storyline of developing a fashionable resort, which was intriguing.