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Persuasion's best people are the worst

All is not completely lost in the Netflix adaptation, thanks to some unlikable minor roles

Salon

Persuasion: why the Netflix adaptation is actually worth a watch, according to a romantic literature expert

SPOILER ALERT: this article contains plot references to Persuasion.

The Conversation

TV tonight: Jane Austen’s Sanditon is back to swoon period drama lovers

Sisters are swamped with proposals in the second run of this Austen adaptation. Plus: a Josh Widdicombe standup special. Here’s what to watch this evening

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Sanditon season 2: How to watch and will there be a third series as drama returns to ITV

Sanditon is returning to ITV for its second series - here's how you can watch the TV adaption of Jane Austen's famous last novel and whether there will be a third series

Daily Mirror

A broken love

Jane Austen, regarded as one of the first rom-com authors, has had another classic adapted for the big screen again in Persuasion, a new period drama starring Dakota Johnson (Fifty Shades Of Grey) as an 1800s woman with modern sensibilities who has a second chance to reconnect with the love…

Bangkok Post

Persuasion: Netflix viewers call out ‘cringey’ dialogue in new Jane Austen adaptation

Dakota Johnson’s lines in the film are infuriating Jane Austen fans

The Independent UK

11 incredible stately homes from TV and film you can visit in real life

From Bridgerton to Lara Croft, stately homes are a fixture in TV and cinema

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Persuasion: Netflix viewers call out ‘cringey’ dialogue in new Jane Austen adaptation

Dakota Johnson’s lines in the film are infuriating Jane Austen fans

The Independent UK

Persuasion: Netflix viewers call out ‘cringey’ dialogue in new Jane Austen adaptation

Dakota Johnson’s lines in the film are infuriating Jane Austen fans

The Independent UK

Netflix’s Persuasion Starring Dakota Johnson Hath Landed And Twitter Is Ripping It To Shreds

"It insults the audience's intelligence."

Pedestrian.tv

5 Jane Austen facts revealed by music

All sorts of women can be musical – or not – in Austen’s novels, it tells us something about each of them

Salon

Who is in the Persuasion cast for Netflix's newest Jane Austen adaptation

Persuasion is now available to watch on Netflix

Manchester Evening News

Persuasion: 11 stately homes from TV and film you can visit in real life

From Bridgerton to Lara Croft, stately homes are a fixture in TV and cinema

The Independent UK

Netflix Persuasion adaptation starring Dakota Johnson jettisons Jane Austen’s class concerns in favour of contemporary appeal

Netflix's new adaptation of Persuasion stars 50 Shades of Grey's Dakota Johnson as a messy millennial who swigs wine from the bottle while lusting after her ex.

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The Independent UK

Persuasion: Netflix movie branded ‘torture’ to watch and ‘the worst Jane Austen adaptation ever’

Film’s being called ‘a travesty’, ‘inexcusable’ and ‘torture’

The New Daily

Exes, alcohol and loose historical licence: Why Netflix’s Persuasion is Jane Austen via Fleabag

Netflix’s Persuasion is a surprisingly faithful adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel, in terms of plot. But it's a distinctly modern rom-com in terms of tone.

Evening Standard

Sanditon star Rose Williams: ‘It’s the fans who saved the show’

After ITV’s Austen adaptation Sanditon was cancelled, Rose Williams said goodbye to her character Charlotte Heywood. But then the fans mobilised, with petitions, letter writing and sand art, and the producers had a change of heart

Tribune News Service

'Crawdads,' 'Persuasion': Movies to see (or skip) this weekend

A Carolina drama, a shell with shoes and a Jane Austen adaptation are among the week's new movies.

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Review: Dakota Johnson is bewitching in Jane Austen adaptation 'Persuasion'

Dakota Johnson is nothing less than enchanting in "Persuasion," director Carrie Cracknell's modern-in-attitude adaptation of Jane Austen's 200-year-old novel.

The Independent UK

The Bridgerton effect: The rise in modern Regency novels

There’s a rift in the world of romance novels between ‘Bridgerton’ stans and purists committed to a questionable version of historical accuracy, writes Amanda Whiting

The Conversation

Exes, alcohol and loose historical licence: why Netflix's Persuasion is Jane Austen via Fleabag

Netflix’s Persuasion is a surprisingly faithful adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel, in terms of plot structure. It follows the second-chance romance of Anne Elliot (Dakota Johnson) and Captain Frederick Wentworth (Cosmo Jarvis) through almost exactly the same beats and events as the book.

Los Angeles Times

Review: Netflix's Jane Austen adaptation 'Persuasion' is a dreadful film, never to be borne

To begin with a perhaps quintessentially Jane Austen question: Which of these two do you prefer?

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Persuasion’: Breezy romance updates Jane Austen novel with modern language and rhythms

Likable Dakota Johnson stars as the 19th century heroine reunited with the suitor she jilted.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Review: Dakota Johnson Brings a Modern Spark to ‘Persuasion’

The new adaptation of "Persuasion," coming to Netflix Friday, does not seem to have been made for Jane Austen fans. Her book about the unmarried Anne Elliot, who at 27 is on the edge of spinsterhood and regretting having been persuaded to give up her true love years earlier because…

The Independent UK

Persuasion: Netflix movie branded ‘the worst Jane Austen adaptation ever’ and ‘torture’ to watch

Film’s being called ‘a travesty’, ‘inexcusable’ and ‘torture’

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