At this rate the show will be cancelled :( It is the most underrated show on Netflix! No one even barely talk about it. It's such a shame..
shareA year after I talked about wanting watching it, I am now. Starting season 2. ☺️
shareUnderrated? The writing is atrocious, particularly the dialog.
shareWhen I heard that it was a bit "darker" than the Megan Fellows version, I was prepared to not like it, but I was pleasantly surprised. I really like it, I'm on my 3rd watching of it (dvr'd off of tv). As great as Colleen Dewhurst was, I really like this Marilla too.
shareGood. This show deserves to die after the relentless identity politics and liberal preaching that tarnished the world and characters in season 2. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the first season. It felt real and engaging for the time period. Somehow though, everything turned upside down by shoehorning in the unholy trinity of racism, homophobia, and feminism, all into one great big bag of horseshit. Not a single fucking episode went by that we weren't preached to like children: "Now look kiddies, racism is bad see? And gay people are people too and heaven forbid let's not forget that woe is women and women can do everything a man can do and then some". Like holy fuck. Way to completely tarnish a potential gem of a series.
shareWhat is wrong with saying that a woman is capable of doing more things than what they were given credit for?
shareI agree with this. It turned from an interesting period piece into something unwatchably PC. I gave up after the episode with aunt Josephine's party in season 2.
And btw, if I was the girls' age and lived in that sort of reality where I never once even heard of homosexuality, I don't think I would have understood what aunt Jo and the revelers at her party meant. How Anne immediately gathered that Jo and her late companion were a lesbian couple, and wasn't the least bit shocked, is beyond me. (And how did the much more sheltered Diana understand??)
Like I said, everyone and everything is just way too progressive. Yes, it started earlier with Bash, but this party just brought it to a head for me. It made me immediately lose all interest. Wish the series had preserved historical accuracy.
The power of this show is how they developed beloved characters to speak about todays social issues, I know all shows and films do that, as nothing stays removed from the reflections of the modern social concerns and sensibilities, but there's a link between the old days and new days that really surprised me in this show, sort of helping us to contemplate how much has changed and how much stayed the same, there's a reason why this show was made, Anne herself was a feminist, as were Rilla and Emily, and yet there's lots of changes of what was in the novel, which is what I like about adaptations, not copying the novel, instead merely basing on it, and giving it a new perspective and interpretation that resonates with our times. The original novel full of ideas of innocence was good for brainwashing at the time of its creation, the fiction being made nowadays is at least courageous enough to re-write the history and depicting more self empowered ideals and goals, in the old days even the experience and openness of sex was not throught of as innocent, mainly due to the influence of religions at the time, how many people at that time period knew how harmful it could have been, the concept of what it means being innocent has been largely changing since then. Often it also helps when the filmmakers of new versions don't like the material they're adapting.
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