Series · Netflix · 2017
Pass it on
Anne with an E
78Worth an evening.
A child is wanted, taught, and allowed to become more than useful. Keep this one.
The review
This is the Montgomery story told with more bruise than the old television version, and the bruise is mostly honest. Anne has been used by adults before Green Gables. The series does not skip that in order to keep her quaint. What it keeps, and what matters, is a house that decides she belongs in it, a school that is worth fighting to enter, and a girl whose imagination is aimed at a life and not only at a feeling.
The later episodes push harder on the cruelties of the period than a small child needs. Start with the first season, with the family in the room. Ask them why Marilla, who did not want a girl, becomes the person Anne cannot do without.
Journal
Keep Anne with an E in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 78. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety is the thin one.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Little House on the Prairie
91 instead of 78
Little House on the Prairie is still a drama show, and it scores 91 instead of 78. What you gain is industry: Plowing, hunting, teaching, milling.
The eight
- 7Industry
A farm still has to be worked. Imagination is not a substitute for the chores, and the show knows it.
- 9Household
Matthew and Marilla choose a girl the world had already filed as inconvenient.
- 6Piety
Prayer and Sunday are ordinary. Doubt is allowed without making faith the villain.
- 8Courage
Anne defends the smaller child and tells the truth when it will cost her the room.
- 7Republic
Avonlea is a town with a school, a busybody, and a standard it sometimes fails.
- 8Temperance
Temper is her fault, and the story does not call the fault a gift.
- 8Truth
She embellishes, and she is corrected. The correction is love.
- 9Stewardship
An education, a name, and a place are being made for someone who arrived with nothing.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
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