Television series
Pride and Prejudice
Still in development, so nobody's watched a frame of it yet, but the ingredients are promising: a faithful, page-to-screen retelling rather than a modern reimagining, Emma Corrin's watchful Lizzy, Olivia Colman let loose as a career-best Mrs Bennet, and Jack Lowden brooding under Darcy's collar. Comfort food for anyone who already loves the novel.
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Pride and Prejudice
The BBC's six-hour miniseries with Colin Firth is still the yardstick every other Darcy gets measured against — slow-burn, faithful, and quietly devastating in the best way.
But Nearly thirty years old and it shows: the pace is glacial by modern standards and a few performances feel stagey.
Pride & Prejudice2005
Joe Wright's two-hour film trades faithfulness for atmosphere — muddy hems, candlelit rooms, real heat between Knightley and Macfadyen — and it's over in an evening.
But Compresses the novel hard and takes liberties purists resent, especially with the ending.
Emma.2020
Same drawing rooms, same marriage-market anxieties, but sharper and funnier — Anya Taylor-Joy is delicious and the pastel production design is a treat.
But Chillier and more mannered than most Austen fans expect; style occasionally outruns feeling.
The wildcard
Something you would not have found on your own.
Fiddler on the Roof1971
Both stories are built on parents terrified their daughters will marry badly or not at all, and both ask whether love can survive when a family's entire security rides on the outcome — Austen just wrote her version with better manners and no fiddler.
A father haggling with tradition and fate to marry off his daughters well, torn between love and money — the exact anxiety that makes Mrs Bennet tick, transposed to a Russian shtetl.
But It's a nearly three-hour musical shadowed by pogroms and exile; the songs and the grief sit uncomfortably close together.
People
Cast
Production
- Dolly AldertonExecutive Producer
- Emma CorrinExecutive Producer
- Euros LynExecutive Producer
- Laura LankesterExecutive Producer
- Louise MutterExecutive Producer
- Will JohnstonExecutive Producer
- Lisa OsborneProducer
Recommended by
North & South, Pride & Prejudice, Pride and Prejudice, Wives and Daughters, Bleak House, Anne of Green Gables, To the Manor Born, Emma., Sense and Sensibility, Middlemarch, A Room with a View, Bridget Jones's Diary, Cranford