'Sanditon': TV Review

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PBS' 8-episode British import adapts an unfinished Jane Austen novel for modern audiences.

, has created a horny Austenian world where heroines catch a full-frontal glimpse of their love interest while swimming and where fortune seekers force each other to perform furtive outdoor hand jobs. But this shallow tawdriness only masks's mistrust of traditional marriage plots altogether. Here, single men are just as in want of a good fortune as they are in want of a wife who can provide it.in the U.S.

, turn out to be a pair of entrepreneurs scurrying to turn a provincial fishing village into a trendy, Brighton-like coastal resort. To thank the Heywoods for their kindness, they invite Charlotte to stay with them for a short while to give the girl a chance to explore something outside her quaint hamlet.

In Sanditon, Charlotte encounters a dizzying number of local odd fellows and harridans, starting with Mr. Parker's tempestuous siblings. Diana and Arthur are an inseparable pair of hypochondriacal flibbertigibbets, often seen arm-in-arm fretting about any minor physical labor asked of them, such as walking.

Intrigue arrives in the form of Mr. Parker's main investor, the crotchety and twice-widowed grand dame Lady Denham , and her poisonously competitive potential future heirs. Incestuous step-siblings Edward and Esther slither around each other like serpents in heat, openly contemptuous of impoverished Clara , their aunt's niece from another marriage.

Charlotte smartly steers clear of this obvious toxic glop, instead making friends with Sidney's wealthy teenage ward, Miss Georgiana Lambe , a biracial socialite who would much rather be gallivanting in London with her illicit boyfriend than stuck with these inane white people.'s strong conceit gives way to too many episodes that serve as clunky filler between Charlotte's disastrous first encounter with Sidney and their eventual oozy denouement.

 

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