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Chiomara · 08-10-2017, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

Anne or Anne with an E (I'm not entirely sure which is the correct name for my region.)

So I'm pretty much the last person to expect to be into this sort of thing, but I dig it. I dunno if it's just because I'm feeling a little homesick and it's nice to hear Canadian cities get name dropped in hilarious accents.

Anyways, it's a new show about Anne (with an E) from Green Gabels, a book series that I've never read but was aware of. It follows the titular Anne (with an E) as she is accidentally adopted (they wanted a boy) by a brother and sister to basically act as free labour. Things happen, she gets to stay, and live a life as a child, something she never got to do because she had been an orphan her entire life, which have left her with a nasty case of PTSD.

Despite this, she is a very imaginative, curious, well spoken, educated, and polite girl who is headstrong and determined. She can sometimes go to Bridge to Terabithia levels of obnoxious at times, but she gets nicely balanced out by her adoptive mother's grounded and stern, but never mean, personality.

Costumes and set design are top notch, it really does look like late 19th / early 20th century. There's some gorgeous cinematography and I definitely need to check out Prince Edward Island sometime in my life.

Overall, a very well thought-out and executed show.

YES finally someone else here has seen this; I loved it, personally, though it seems a lot of the die-hard Anne of Green Gables purists loathed the new series, claiming it was too gritty/gritty for the sake of being gritty, etc. But I don't really understand that; I felt that there were plenty of lighthearted whimsical moments to balance out the darker PTSD stuff. I binge-watched it and was emotionally destroyed/elated afterward, but it was worth it. And the casting was just perfect. I thought the writing in general was consistently great and natural as well. (I think the writer also worked on Breaking Bad, but I'm not 100% sure) So many scenes were just so unbearably perfect and sweet and charming; I had to watch them over and over.