The BBC’s new adaptation puts the beleaguered, bespectacled Mary of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ front and centre – and she makes for a delightfully awkward protagonist
Ella Bruccoleri (centre) is pitch-perfect as charmingly awkward Mary in ‘The Other Bennet Sister’. Photo: BBC /Bad Wolf
Period literary adaptations have all got a little, well, sexy of late, haven’t they? Bridgerton is, of course, the pinnacle of this trend, an erotic female fantasy brought to life and clad in wigs and elaborate corsetry.
Emerald Fennell’s controversial Wuthering Heights was essentially an aesthetically exquisite vehicle for Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie to rut against each other across a variety of al fresco locations.