Obsessed with Anne with an E
She would soon be pushed out of the Netflix nest unless she made it into the top 10. Marketing gimmick or not, it gave me just the push to start watching Anne with an E, a three-season series about an orphan girl, Anne, who seems to find happiness in Avonlea, a Canadian village at the beginning of the twentieth century, after a thousand bumps and a billion crashes. Think horse and carriage, girls with curly hair and dresses with aprons. I'm completely into it because:
1. The beauty of everything
The styling is of a rare delight. Especially the house of Marilla and Matthew, the brother and sister who eventually adopt Anne. It's just Little House on the Prairie on Steroids.
2. You can also watch it with minors
With most series, I have to hide my minor girl under a pillow three times per episode due to inappropriate language or horizontal actions. Aside from a few sad scenes in the orphanage, this is perfectly manageable for young and old.
3. The time of then
Going to church together, worrying about the harvest, writing letters and hoping they arrive, going to another town with horse and carriage to buy a Sunday dress. Truly, there were also many terrible things in that time (slavery had been abolished but colors life, there was great fear of the unknown and homosexuality was hidden), but that tranquil life, I can long for.
4. That delightful Anne
Anne is the precursor to Pippi Longstocking. At least as smart, contrary (she refuses to apologize to a neighbor who called her skinny and ugly and calls the woman in question fat herself) and sometimes a bit clumsy (an attempt to dye her red hair does not achieve the desired effect resulting in a rat's nest). She quotes Jane Eyre every hour and says delightful things like:
- A skirt is not an invitation
- Different isn’t bad, it is just not the same
- In my maturity I’ve come to the happy, evolutionary opinion that I’m unusual and I embrace it
- I’m loved now, but when I wasn’t, I didn’t mean I wasn’t worthy of it
- Grief is the price you pay for love, you see
- Tomorrow is always fresh with no mistakes in it
- And of course: I rather have you pronounce my name with an ‘e’, looks so much more distinguished than just plain old Ann.
Watch it soon, before it really disappears.
Image: Netflix
