Last Sunday evening marked the end of an era. You see, for the past nearly three months, two of my best friends and I would watch Masterpiece Theater on Sunday night. Specifically the Complete Works of Jane Austen. Sadly, last Sunday's installment of Sense and Sensibility marked the end of this special. How sad.
What a wonderful time the past few months have been. We loved Captain Wentworth's brooding and Henry Tilney's humor. We cringed at Fanny Price's teeth, and wanted to give Edmund a good slap upside the head. We were sorely disappointed that Mr. Knightley in the BBC version of Emma was not nearly as handsome as Mr. Knightely in the Gwyneth Paltrow adaption. We decided that shelves in the closet really are a happy thought indeed. We discovered we knew an Anne Steele. We hated Lucy Steele. And we fell in love with Willoughby, Colonel Brandon, and Edward Ferrars.
I think the part I will miss is everything that happened during and after the movie. The comments during the show. All the talking we did after. All the over-analyzing of our own love lives (or lack thereof). The singing. The inspiration for The Group Date. We laughed. We cried. We had a ball.
We need to do this more often. We still really ought to watch Pride and Prejudice all the way through, since we ended up singing through it that one day (and through the first proposal too!). Thoroughly Modern Millie is guaranteed to make you want to tap dance in elevators and do "The Tapioca." I have four hours of North and South I could watch again. Mr. Thornton is every bit as handsome and brooding as Mr. Darcy.
I miss my girls' night Masterpiece Theater.
6 comments:
I miss them too! But we have tons we can still watch. All those you mentioned and Tenth Kingdom too! It doesn't have to come to an end. In fact, it could be a new tradition. YAY for new things in life!
This sounds terribly fun!!! It does sound very tragic that it is over, but as they say...the end is just the beginning :) And...the show must go on! So! Keep up with it!!! :)
I miss you coming to our house. Thank you for letting me be part of the fun.
Jane Austen is wonderful, and I wish I'd had someone to watch all of them with! (I watched them alone . . .) And may I say--that Wentworth was attractive, attractive, attractive!
Also, if you want to see Richard Armitage (aka Thornton) in something else and don't mind that he's one of the bad guys, I cannot recommend the BBC TV series Robin Hood highly enough. Seriously.
Oooh Katie! I'm going to have to watch that. Richard Armitage is an extremely attractive guy.
If you wanted someone to drool with, I actually own the first season of Robin Hood. But I live in SLC these days . . .
Still, if you ever want to have a hot-outlaws-on-British-TV sleepover, you're more than welcome!
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