The Funniest Twitter Reactions To Netflix's Persuasion

Netflix’s new Persuasion adaptation dropped last week and the Internet has gone wild.

The film was a bizarre concoction of Austen’s most complex and internal novel, Fleabag-esque monologues to camera, and Millennial malaise.

It was not great.

Here are some of the best Twitter reactions to the movie!

They really messed up when they picked PERSUASION as the Austen to fuck with because for us hyper-critical Austen girls? That’s our favorite one.
— Joanna Robinson (@jowrotethis) July 13, 2022

On the writing

if i had been in the writers' room when they were adapting persuasion i would've proposed "there could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison" to be changed to "he's just like me fr"
— cass (@vacantribcage) July 16, 2022

jane austen did not die rejecting every single man who ever came into her life for dakota johnson to say “now we’re worse than exes, we’re friends” in netflix's persuasion
— sophie 🌙 19 AND ON FIRE (@loversrespite) July 16, 2022

you could not convince me this is a period drama movie let alone a JANE AUSTEN adaptation with this dialogue… #Persuasion pic.twitter.com/r0JXg3Eqcs
— ً (@darcyslizzy) July 15, 2022

On the romance

the bennifer saga is a better adaptation of Persuasion than Persuasion (2022)
— Clara (@colormeloverly) July 18, 2022

what the netflix persuasion failed to understand is that the silent yearning and pining between anne elliot and captain wentworth is what makes the story of persuasion so sexy.
— lois (@packcloudsaway) July 15, 2022

On the characterisation

netflix really gave us Persuasion and said “here’s dakota johnson doing her worst and annoyingly painful fleabag impression enjoy”
— Rachael (@markruffaloTD) July 15, 2022

I’m not against modern adaptations of classic novels (I really enjoyed the new take on Emma)

But I just don’t think it worked in case of Persuasion. They unfortunately lost the essence of Anne in an attempt to modernise her.#Persuasion #JaneAusten #Persuasion2022 pic.twitter.com/1AoqsUZ9u0
— Sonali (@Sona1899) July 16, 2022

On the modernisation

i will not be the person who fact-checks all of persuasion, because props are the least of this movie's problems.

but.

green table grapes were not really a thing until the late 19th c and chocolate chip cookies were invented in the 1930s. pic.twitter.com/PfwlKzFA13
— Kathryn VanArendonk (@kvanaren) July 15, 2022