Anne with an E on Netflix

[casslean]

My bad.

Anne’s youngest child Rilla is born around 1900, so late 1870s or 1880s sounds right for the first books.

I don’t know why but I think of the costumes of the movie and tv adaptations as being more typically 1900s. As well as things like references to electric lights which weren’t even invented until 1879, let alone getting to a small rural town like Avonlea.

Anne of Green Gables starts around 1876-1880 (bearing in mind that PEI was clear part of the Confederation of Canada in the books and PEI doesn’t join Confederation until 1873. If you follow the incidental discussions of governmental changes, etc, this is the most accurate dating.

The last book in the series, Rilla of Ingleside takes place during WWI (1914-1918)

There was a third installment of the miniseries Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story that took Anne to New York and Europe, but it was a complete departure from the books. A lot of people who have seen that series get confused.

I hate Anne with an E. I grew up with the Anne books and loved them, studied in PEI and got to learn intensively about L.M. Montgomery and her stories and the character she created, and this series is just atrocious. There are so many anachronisms and inconsistencies - it’s what certain liberal camps wish Anne was, rather than what Montgomery created.

So I’ll just go back to my books,

 

[mrsdizzyd]

I hate Anne with an E. I grew up with the Anne books and loved them, studied in PEI and got to learn intensively about L.M. Montgomery and her stories and the character she created, and this series is just atrocious. There are so many anachronisms and inconsistencies - it’s what certain liberal camps wish Anne was, rather than what Montgomery created.

So I’ll just go back to my books,

I can sometimes tolerate modern redos so long as the writers are careful to make sure all aspects of the characters, setting, etc actually fit the new time period. Anne with an E apparently isn’t done well?

 

[somecanadian]

Thanks for the heads up.

I was disappointed in the first season.

There were several moments where I felt I was being preached to (which I always hate in TV shows). A strong feminist agenda was being pushed (which always annoys me - why can’t females be strong without being overtly feminist??? Seriously). And in general it was just SO DARK. I hate this new fad in TV shows where everything is like a Batman movie. Blah.

Give me something like When the Heart Calls, thank you very much.

 

[cloistered]

I think you are right here that it is hard to get across to non Catholic that Catholics thing its ok to be gay and must not discriminate. I think it is mostly hard because almost all Catholics that I have ever come across don’t believe this.

Read the Family Life board to see people upset that their son is gay and others reassuring him that his son might grow out of it.

You can’t discriminate, except when you can in disallowing homosexual men into the seminaries.

 

[Clementine14]

I was really disappointed in the show. I stuck it out until the middle of Season Two, where Aunt Josephine has a party with a drag queen and some other interesting characters. At the end Aunt Josephine gives a speech about her deceased lover and everyone toasts to the couple. I can typically ignore such agendas in other shows, but it was so obvious and so unnecessary, and far off from the books that I lost interest. It’s just way overdone.