Matthew Goode, who I will admit I have had a crush on for a very long time, is the ideal man to play the Don Juan-esque Wickham. Jenna Coleman is brilliant as Lydia, making her more superficial and vain than ever. The Wickhams were definitely my favorite pair in the show. But, then again, who really could live up that iconic performance? Elizabeth is mostly the same, although her performance does not live up to Ehle’s, despite the effort. He is much more sensitive and we even see him as an affectionate father figure. In this continuation we get to see how our favorite characters have changed over the years. While their characterization echoes that of Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle in the ’95 version of Pride and Prejudice, there is a marked difference in these older versions of the pair.
Matthew Rhys and Anna Maxwell take their places as Darcy and Elizabeth. Unlike Austen’s novel, the show relies on special lighting and camera angles to create a darker more haunted feel to the story, including plenty of blood, dead bodies, and gothic suspense. Wickham is the chief suspect in the murder of Captain Denny, who was murdered in the woods of Pemberley. All of our favorite Pride and Prejudice characters are back years after the end of Miss Austen’s famous novel, except this time lively balls and house parties have been traded out for a murder investigation and its subsequent trial. The miniseries is a huge improvement on the not so successful novel that nonetheless had a great premise. The Brits have done it again with their entrancing TV adaptation of P.D. THE SETUP: Six years after the events of Pride and Prejudice, a murder happens at the Darcy’s and Wickham is the main suspect. THE CAST: Matthew Rhys, Anna Maxwell Martin, Matthew Goode, Jenna Coleman, Eleanor Tomlinson WHEN: Sunday October 26 9 pm ET (check local listings)
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