"Are the halls of Pemberly to be thus polluted?"
Dame Judi Dench as Lady Catherine de Bourg, Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Lost in Austen is an abomination, a travesty. Devotees of Austen and her beloved novels will find this TV mini-series to be a sacrilegious assault on their senses.
Amanda (Jemima Rooper) is a modern Londoner who takes solace is Jane Austen's 19th Century world. When she has the chance to swap places with Elizabeth Bennett, Amanda doesn't realize the magnitude of the event. Her arrival quickly begins to reshape one of the world's greatest love stories.
Lost in Austen is all wrong. The casting is poor; creating insulting caricatures of these literary couples. Lizzie has no personality. Mr. Darcy is beyond boorish. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett engage in a role reversal. Mr. Collins reeks of a child molester. Catherine Bingham is lesbian... it's all wrong... horrible wrong. The dialogue is lewd when juxtaposed against Austen's society. The production is classless.
There is nothing redeeming here. There is no kindness or gentility. It's ignorant, silly, and horribly clichéd. It's Austen--chick flick-ified. As I see it, Lost in Austen must be avoided at all costs!
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