I’m obsessed with Maxton Hall. I watched the entire first season in like a day with my Amazon Prime subscription, and I'm planning an entire weekend devoted to Season 2 when it hits the 2025 TV schedule. While I'm clearly a fan, I'd never delved too deeply into the "why" behind my devotion, but now one of the show's key players has explained why the romantic drama has resonated so widely, and Jane Austen is involved.
Marlene Melchior, a writer on both Season 1 and the upcoming Season 2 of Maxton Hall, just compared the series to Jane Austen’s infamous Pride and Prejudice. Furthermore, she mentioned to Deadline how much the 1995 adaptation of the book really stuck with her during the making of the show, which in and of itself is also based on the Save Me book series by Mona Kasten (recently translated into English).
