Sanditon
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Just truly off-the-wall, Austen-adjacent material, and youre either gonna be onboard with it or you arent.
The novelSanditonis different than anything else Austen wrote.
So many hilarious monologues!
So much discussion of toast!
So many jokes about literature and so many mansplainer put-downs!
My edition is 37 pages long and I highlighted 57 things.
What will happen!?
Judging by this first episode, a lot.
We begin with ACTION.
A carriage containing a man and a woman is going entirely too fast and overturns on a country road.
The man is Tom Parker a.k.a.
the Guy Who Banged a Lot of Wisconsinite Women inLove, Actually and his wife, Mary.
the up-and-coming seaside town of Sanditon.
Things are gonna get a little Austen After Dark if you know what Im saying.
Adjusts captains hat Onward!
When she exclaims Eleven!
Okay, lets deal with this right now: Sidney is the love interest.
We know hes the love interest.
There is no escaping him as the love interest.
I amopento this, despite his abysmal behavior at the end of the episode.
But along the way, I will be shipping everyone who has a wisp of chemistry.
But back to characters with tons of chemistry.
Meet Lady Denhams companion and poor relation, Clara.
Clara and Charlotte immediately like each other, as they are both extremely pleasant and slightly funny.
Before we get to Sanditons famed seaside, though, we have to talk about Sir Edward.
1 in the running.
Its all veryMartin Chuzzlewit.
Except for the incest thing.
And maybe the poisoning.
Charlotte and Clara share a bathing machine, which is now Regency slang for lady-banging.
Make out in the bathing machine, you cowards!
They dont, and I begin mySanditonfan-fiction.
Everyone survives, though, because they have a ball to attend.
Sidney Parker, designated love interest, is at the ball.
Youre probably wondering what Charlotte and Clara are up to at the ball.
Charlotte earlier had glimpsed Sir Edward and Clara in a compromising position in the woods.
When she states it, he asks for clarification.
First of all, Sidney.
First of all, why dont you dial back that inappropriate rage like 20 notches?
I know youre all butt hurt about her fair assessment of your brother, but jeeeeeez.
I am staying open to Sidney/Charlotte.
Because thats where were being led.
But as of this episode, Clara/Charlotte forever.
Is Esthers journey going to involve redemption or aGame of Thronesstyle play for Lady Denhams fortune?
Or somehow magically both?
