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It's always fun when John Light returns to Kembleford. I agree with the other reviewers who are not fans of the new cast. You can always rely on Mark Williams, but the newbies don't have the same chemistry. Mrs. Devine spends half an episode looking silly (she's too young to be the mother figure that Mrs. M was). And suddenly Inspector Sullivan has turned into a whiny, petulant baby who wants to go back to Scotland Yard. During his first tour of duty in seasons 2 and 3, he did not come across as an angry man.

Not all of season 10 has been shown in the US (Britbox shows 2 per week) so I'm curious about the rest of this season.

It's been a while since I've read the book, but I know that wasn't Charlotte Bronte's work. More like Harlequin Romance. They used as little of Bronte's dialogue as possible. I agree with others about the lack of Jane's time at Lowood...it set up her character and determination. Modernizing classics is an absolute crime.

I confess to liking the 1943 Orson Welles-Joan Fontaine version. As a gothic novel, it came across on the screen as such. I didn't get that here.

I'm not a Keira Knightly fan but decided to finally check out this version of my favorite Austen story. Sorry, but it's a mess. Changing a story to "modernize" it, doesn't make it better. The Bennets may not have been as wealthy as Bingley or Darcy, but they were gentry, and in this movie looked almost like Skid Row inhabitants. Elizabeth came across as nasty instead of playfully pushing back on pomposity....should have been subtle instead of "in your face". As far as subtlety goes, Darcy's love for Elizabeth should have been conveyed in accordance with his reserved character, not overt so early. Mr. Collins lacked the comedic presence of previous versions and came across as pathetic. And Charlotte was not so nasty when she told Elizabeth about marrying Mr. Collins.

Not sure what I just watched, but it was not Jane Austen. For me, the 1980 BBC version was closest to the book.