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Persuasion review: Dakota Johnson is woefully miscast in mortifying Jane Austen adaptation

At no point during Carrie Cracknell’s directorial debut do you ever get the sense that anyone’s actually read ‘Persuasion’

The Independent UK · Jul 8, 2022

Persuasion review – Dakota Johnson looks the part as Jane Austen gets Fleabagged

Classic story of a young woman talked out of marrying her true love is turned into a smirking, heavy-handed romcom

The Guardian - UK · Jul 8, 2022

How Messy Millennial Woman became TV’s most tedious trope

She’s charismatic, self-destructive, and increasingly tiresome: from Fleabag through to Everything I Know About Love, chaotic female leads now seem to be the default, one-note expression of womanhood. It’s time to move on

The Guardian - UK · Jun 9, 2022