Has anyone else watched the series "Anne with an E" on Netflix?
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It’s one of my favorite series for the acting, the characters and the updated plots. One of the subplots is about a gay artistic student and how he finds himself. There is also a plotline about the indigenous children who were taken from their tribes and forced to live in Catholic run institutions.
There are three seasons and due to company conflicts, CBC did not develop a 4th which is a shame. I’ll really miss it.
If you watched it, care to chat?
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I haven’t so I can’t speak to it, but I just looked it up on Wikipedia and I’m intrigued.
This is what it says under “themes:”
While “many classic moments [of the novel] are dutifully re-created,” Walley-Beckett constructed Anne with an E with “a darker undercurrent” than previous adaptations of Anne of Green Gables. She envisioned Anne as an antihero, adding original backstories to her adaptation that emphasized the impact of bullying, class-based discrimination, social isolation, and consequent PTSD on the construction of Anne’s character (themes hinted at, but never elaborated upon, in the original novel). Walley-Beckett further states: “In this day and age, themes of identity, prejudice, bullying, being an outsider, searching for a way to be accepted and how to belong are entirely topical and super relevant, and those are themes that are built into the story of Anne”. She went on to call Anne Shirley an “accidental feminist”, and how she “really wanted to tell this story now”. Amybeth McNulty (who portrays Anne) also stated that, “people might think [the new scenes] are quite graphic… but I think it was time to be honest.”
@jca2 I really think you would love it. It’s very rich. Let me know if you watch it.
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