The first three episodes of the Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice-inspired sequel adaptation, The Other Bennet Sister (2026) just dropped on BritBox. Made by the BBC, this novel adaptation TV miniseries tells the “story” of the much maligned younger sister, Mary, from Jane Austen’s novel. In Austen’s novel, Mary is unattractive, bookish, and annoying. In this telling (book written by Janice Hadlow), Mary is essentially overlooked and through a series of events, consciously decides to try to become The Most Intelligent/Well-Read Sister as a means to find her own identity amongst all her Sparkling Star Sisters … and then things get more complicated!
The series stars Ella Bruccoleri (Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials, Miss Barragan in Bridgerton season 3, Hotel Portofino, Sister Frances on Call the Midwife seasons 8-12, All Creatures Great & Small, The Last Kingdom, and Genius – the Picasso season) as Mary. And as ALL the episodes have already aired in the UK, thanks to a little thing called VPN, I’ve watched it all (but will only review the first three episodes today — look for a wrap-up post when the series has ended airing in the US). This post got LONG, so last week I talked about Mary and all her sisters’ costumes. Today, I’ll talk about Mrs. Bennet, Caroline Bingley, Mrs. Gardiner, and a few of the smaller characters.
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Apropos of nothing, I would absolutely love to see Ms Ruth Jones play Queen Anne – probably in ‘actual history’ mode more than THE FAVOURITE – but have to say that the version of Mrs Bennett she plays for this show might be the most horrible in the character’s long history.
You’d think that after marrying off four out of five daughters the woman would have SOME chill.