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- Netflix
- Mar 19, 2017
- Netflix
- Mar 19, 2017
Summary The latest adaptation of L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables where 13-year-old Anne (Amybeth McNulty) is sent to live with Marilla (Geraldine James) and Matthew Cuthbert (R.H. Thomson).
Created By: Moira Walley-Beckett
- Netflix
- Mar 19, 2017
- Netflix
- Mar 19, 2017
Summary The latest adaptation of L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables where 13-year-old Anne (Amybeth McNulty) is sent to live with Marilla (Geraldine James) and Matthew Cuthbert (R.H. Thomson).
Created By: Moira Walley-Beckett
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
79
87% Positive
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
13% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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The series will be a joy both for Anne superfans and for anyone who likes heart-tugging drama.
Anne With an E captures the winning exuberance of Anne Shirley--who, played by AmyBeth McNulty, is entirely irresistible--while finding some deeper potency in her story. The first two episodes offer a gripping and moving setup for the rest of the season, portraying how Anne, despite improbable odds, persuades the elderly Cuthberts to love her.
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Based on 77 User Ratings
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 77 User Ratings
7.9
79% Positive
61 Ratings
61 Ratings
8% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
13% Negative
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
Anne with an E is a fresh new take on the classic. Moira has done the clever thing of preserving the essence of the original Anne -- even borrowing chunks of dialogue word-for-word from the novel -- while also putting her own spin on the story. Anne With an E was never going to work unless the right actress was chosen to carry the series, and I'd say that Amybeth McNulty was pretty much a perfect pick. Anne With an E captures the winning exuberance of Anne Shirley-who, played by AmyBeth McNulty, is entirely irresistible-while finding some deeper potency in her story.
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SEASON 1
You say darker, I say richer. ... Ms. James and Mr. Thomson lend the stability of skilled veterans to the proceedings, which helps Ms. McNulty do the difficult work of selling a complicated character who is simultaneously vulnerable and proud, self-denying and self-absorbed, practical and prone to fantasy. Her portrayal isn’t seamless, but it’s endearing.
Anne with an E both stands apart from the 1985 Anne and connects to it in its openhearted eagerness. McNulty gives an exceptionally deft, nuanced performance that is the equal of any adult performance I’ve seen on television this year. Beautifully shot, and full of marvelous supporting performances, Anne with an E is a fresh version of Anne of Green Gables that newcomers and cult fans can enjoy equally.
A darker shade of "Green"? Yes, at times, grim realities are made a trifle more real. Does that work? Yes, often wonderfully well.
However much it lingers on the dangers that lie just outside the doors of Green Gables, it’s likely to seem tame to viewers brought up on Harry Potter and The Hunger Games. ... Anne’s never been a simple character. McNulty doesn’t play her as one.
Anne with an E is undeniably the most stylish adaptation we’ve ever seen of Anne of Green Gables. But its desire to reveal more of Anne’s miserable past in order to be more true to what the desperation of an orphan is like feels at odds with Montgomery’s story.
In an era when the majority of shows promote meaningless violence, negative messages and stereotypical humor I find this show to be incredibly refreshing. I admire the writers, producers and actors for their involvement in this wonderful project. I personally live with a very positive approach to life and know that I am completely responsible for the life I create. I love the enthusiasm and vigor in which Anne lives her life.
Especially love the characters, Matthew and Marilla. Actually I love all the characters and the growth and evolving that they go through right before our eyes.
So many people can learn so much from this show about how to approach life. Sure there are difficult times and trying situations and people but how you deal with them is critical to loving life.
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SEASON 1
The acting and production values are superb, although at times the interiors of the Cuthbert house seem a little over-styled - particularly the trendy dark teal walls that were not present at the real Green Gables. (I only know from visiting the farm.) I went into this series excited about the news I had read of the writer teasing out the darker side of Anne's orphan's life, but the constant swings of drama and hurt feelings grow tiresome. One starts to wonder why the author of the series didn't create her own original story about a turn of the last century orphan, since she seems to feel the source material needs constant punching up. The depiction of the town as some sort of English aristocracy constantly judging Anne and the Cuthberts is socially admirable, but Montgomery never suggested that Dianna's family were as high tone as this show portrays them. There are moments that are beautiful - in both the source and new material - but a good example of this writer's heavy-handedness comes in episode two, when Matthew, fetching Anne after she was banished from Green Gables over a lost broach (she was not banished in the books), has his head bashed into a carriage window while crossing a busy street. This moment had me eye-rolling through the subsequent scene, in which two stranger women perform a smattering of concerned lines with only half-hearted delivery, as though they too are as bemused by how Matthew wound up on a settee with a head bandage as Matthew himself and most followers of L.M. Montgomery would undoubtedly find themselves. The actresses playing Anne and Marilla are wonderful and the photography is great, but the episodes could use a little more restraint and not rely on the conflict-laden pacing of today's reality TV diet of storytelling. Three episodes in and I am finding my enthusiasm waning by the minute, bittersweet, as there is so much to like about the series in between the over-wrought moments.
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SEASON 1
Anne with an E was, for part of season 1, like re-uniting with an old friend. In season 2, however, the writers are up to their old tricks teaching the viewers untruths designed to DE-sensitize an already sick minded infatuation driven world. Anne of Green Gables was a 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, set in the late 19th century, a time of righteous living, religious standards and relative social purity for the majority of honest hard working folks, but now the writers want to scandalize even this cleaner social time period so that it looks to be like today's wicked standards of filth. Anne, in season 1 was a bit too saucy for a youngster in the late 1800's, but in this version, is an annoying know-it-all girl with indecent thoughts who 'teaches' everyone around her that it's OK to be a little wicked as long as it's done with her ridiculous sounding 'romantical' thoughts, meaning sexually motivated.
Also in season 2, apparently, several 'good folk' are involved with gratuitous **** thoughts. Yes, there were **** persons back then as well, but the writers are giving the viewers the distinct impression that this was the norm, but people were ashamed to 'come out'. No, this was not the norm back then as it is today, assisted by writers teaching people how to rebel and usher in a freewheeling anarchistic society where no one is governed by rules in the least. These very writers who claim that society is too judgmental are themselves left-wing socialists using judgment in a wild and wicked way. Please do NOT allow your children to watch this show; it is NOT Ozzie and Harriet.
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SEASON 1
It just doesn't work to remake period pieces with the lens of current culture. In fact, it makes me want to gag. As if all through time people should have been the same as all the self-judged morally superior cutouts of today. This is a presumptuous **** of a classic. I also don't remember the original Anne being so obtuse and over-the-top. I did not find this Anne endearing, just annoying.
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