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Sense and Sensibility: Season 1
  • Network: BBC
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 1, 2008
  • Season #: 1
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79 out of 100

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  • Summary: PBS's Masterpiece Theatre concludes its Jane Austen series with a new BBC adaptation of the Dashwood sisters' views of love and marriage.
  • Genre(s): Drama, Movie/Mini-Series

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Robert Bianco
    100
    This two-part production expands and opens the story without diminishing the charm or appeal of Austen's original or pushing it past her socially constrained boundaries.
  2. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    90
    It lacks the star power (Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet) of Ang Lee's 1995 Oscar winner. But Austen's characters are so enduring and endearing in their virtues, vanities and passionate follies that they don't require movie stars to bring them to life.
  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mary McNamara
    90
    This Sense and Sensibility is truer not only to Austen's narrative, it more successfully captures the quiet precision of her singular mind--she was the master of finding poetry in domestic detail, and for that, the small screen is much better suited than the large.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. KimB.
    9
    Loved it - wonderfully acted.
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  2. MargieJ.
    5
    Lacks subtle characterization of Ang lee version. We really didn't need this one.
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