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

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
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  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. 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.
  3. 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.

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User Score
6.6 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 5 Ratings

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