lost in austen

Just finished watching the mad but brilliant 4-part show Lost in Austen, wherein Amanda Price, 21st-century girl, encounters Elizabeth Bennet in her bathtub addressing her as "Ms. Spencer" ("It's written on your underclothes!") and swaps places with her. It's filled with anachronisms and plays around with canon ("Hear that sound? That's the sound of Jane Austen rolling around in her grave!") and this is probably the first time in the history of P&P adaptations that I find the actors for Wickham and Bingley hotter than the one they got for Darcy. (Coincidentally enough, they're both named Tom. Hee.)

I was giddy and acquired a stitch on my side by the time I finished the series. That was the most entertaining 4 hours I've had in my most recent memory. It's similar to the satisfaction I get from reading substandard 'girl-falls-into-Middle-earth' story: it may be brainless fluff, but it's entertaining brainless fluff, and that's all that matters to me -- "chasing gaiety" and all that. xD

Go watch!

ETA: Memorable scenes:
- "Why is my daughter Lydia crying?" "Oh, expect it's because she's bored!"
- Mr Bingley whittling a spear from a tree branch after his failed "social experiment"
- Mr. Tinkler Collins
- Mr. Wickham the ladies' fashion guru
- Mr. Darcy and Tinky Winky
- Jane and Mr. Bingley running away to America to have 25 children, all named "Amanda" (even the sons)
- Caroline "Frosty Knickers" Bingley propositioning our heroine
- every single instance Mr. Wickham chases gaiety