The Lizzie Bennet Diaries

I love Jane Austen and someone recommended this web series to me. I was sceptical at first but it turned out to be absolutely brilliant.

In a hilarious modern adaptation Lizzie Bennet tells the story of her family, mostly her mother's quest to get all her daughters married to rich men (as per P&P) vlog style. Jane (practically perfect), Lydia (we're all glad she's too old to appear on Teen Mom) and Charlotte (their mothers went into labour in a Sense and Sensabily book club) often appear as well.

The cast are all great, especially Ashley Clements as grad student Lizzie and the fake vlog style works surprisingly well for a book that relies so heavily on so many characters interacting with each other.

I adore this web series... every day I wake up hoping it's Monday or Thursday, and then am quite disappointed when it's not.... Lizzie's voice is perfect, and I love, love, love Lydia. She's exactly like my little sister, which is odd and funny at the same time. Also, I like how even though we've only met Lizzie, Charlotte, Lydia and Jane, I have an image in my head of the rest of the characters, especially their Mother. It's funny, modern and fresh. One thing.... can we meet Darcy and Bing Lee???? It's brilliant. Please, please don't be like sue other web shows I watched that just stopped halfway through. GREAT WORK, I CAN'T WAIT TIL THURSDAY!!!

I could give it a 10 but doing that is placing it in the same category as the 2005 and 1995 versions, and they both are so beautifully perfect to me.

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries is very well done and amazingly interactive adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, it is so loyal to the original book within the context where the story develops. I feel like they adapted the story very well to the 21 first century. Every character was so in character according to the era where it developed. They had to change the relations with some characters and get rid of kitty but it applies to the context of it all and how relevant they are to this story.

The only thing I will complain about a little bit is how tiresome it gets during the whole Lydia thing, I feel like they could have reduce the number of episodes of Lydia and added a little bit more of the Darcy that we get at the end of the book in one or two more episodes. But the show was perfect, personal favorite characters apart from Darcy:

Lydia--- Amazing Adaptation Fitz--- Seriously guys there is no way you can't love this Fitz Elizabeth as Mrs. Bennet--- On point, so much like the book but still relevant to this century

I've never read Pride and Prejudice, or watched any other adaptation, and before watching the Lizzie Bennet Diaries I had no clue what P&P was at all, basically (I'm from Sweden). So this is coming from someone who sees the show in a vacuum, for good or bad.

And the show is amazing. Really, really amazing. The actors are perfect for their roles, and in general are so very believable. It doesn't feel like watching characters, it feels like watching actual people. I have to remind myself that it is a show and not real, when I want to scream at the protagonist for sometimes being an a-hole towards the other characters. The characters, while often a bit over the top, are very relatable and you can really empathize with them. A special call-out to Mary Kate Wiles who does her role exceptionally well.

I think the format has a lot to do with it and also fits the story very well. The main protagonists impressions of the other characters, especially those not seen on screen, allow for characters that are at the same time over the top and very believable.

I'm on my third run of watching the show now, and I can tell you, it's not one wasted minute.

This is really a must see, even for us who have no cultural reference for Pride & Prejudice.

I found this series after finding out about the vlogbrothers and their other projects. Being a fan of classic novels it was amazing to see such a wonderful adaption of this beautiful love story. Despite the characters having their footing in another century the bennet sisters and friends are so relatable to modern days you tend to forget that its just acting. I never knew that such great talent would be found on youtube of all places. I haven't heard about many of these actors but they are fantastic. I warn you though start watching it when you have nothing else to do because well, no lie, I watched all 100 episode in 2 days and Im not ashamed.