I swear someone raped my dreams and put it into a tv-drama format...well it felt like it! Was so worried right up to the last few minutes that the ending might not be what I wanted, but it was! Oh my goodness, what an ending. Better than the Kiera Knightly film by MILES and I saw that about 4 times at the cinema (long story ( Read more... )

Have just watched episode 1 of  BBC’s new adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, and as predicted it did not beat Emma Thompson’s film. On a basic level alone Colonel Brandon just wasn’t a handsome ‘older’ man you could believe Marianne would fall for…so already it was going to be a stretch of the imagination. Yet, as a whole was not ( Read more... )