Sense And Sensibility - 2008 - 7/10
Excellent three part series of the Jane Austen costume drama.
More than holds its own with the Ang Lee / Emma Thompson version, but marred by a fatal casting choice.
Being longer, more characters and incidents entered the narrative. Some useful (Lucy Steele’s sister, an opening erotic moment), some useless (a pointless duel).
Story follows a family of females after their father dies and they are displaced from the manor.
Their mother was wife #2, and English estates always pass into male hands.
The family struggles to survive in “good society,” the daughters on, perhaps, finding romance.
Cast is uniformly fine, though Dominic Cooper seems miscast as Willoughby.
His character lacks panache, and comes across a rather oily on the screen. I could not buy him as a heartbreaker.