Jane Austen Had a Glass-Half-Full Year
Any year that boasts a Jane Austen screen adaptation is a good year, and in 2022 we got two! Yet it’s hard to feel entirely satisfied, because only one of them is worthy of the source material. Persuasion, on Netflix, takes Austen’s least humorous and most romantic novel and turns it into a comedic romp set in 19th century England.…
