{"id":352360,"date":"2026-03-18T09:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/352360\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T09:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:50:11","slug":"the-other-bennet-sister-review-utterly-charming-austen-spin-off-gives-new-life-to-classic-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/352360\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Other Bennet Sister\u2019 review: Utterly charming Austen spin-off gives new life to classic characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThe BBC\u2019s new adaptation puts the beleaguered, bespectacled Mary of \u2018Pride and Prejudice\u2019 front and centre \u2013 and she makes for a delightfully awkward protagonist\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ella Bruccoleri (centre) is pitch-perfect as charmingly awkward Mary in \u2018The Other Bennet Sister\u2019. Photo: BBC \/Bad Wolf\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/if bennet.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ella Bruccoleri (centre) is pitch-perfect as charmingly awkward Mary in \u2018The Other Bennet Sister\u2019. Photo: BBC \/Bad Wolf<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Period literary adaptations have all got a little, well, sexy of late, haven\u2019t they? Bridgerton is, of course, the pinnacle of this trend, an erotic female fantasy brought to life and clad in wigs and elaborate corsetry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Emerald Fennell\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BBC\u2019s new adaptation puts the beleaguered, bespectacled Mary of \u2018Pride and Prejudice\u2019 front and centre \u2013 and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1578,93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-352360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bbc","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}