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!
On the writing
On the romance
On the characterisation
On the modernisation
In conclusion
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