Synopsis
Sense and Sensibility (2008), Season 1 is a BBC period drama you can watch online on iFILM — a three-part adaptation of Jane Austen's novel. When Mr Dashwood dies, the law hands his estate to a half-brother, and his daughters are left to start over with almost nothing.
Two sisters, two temperaments. Elinor keeps her feelings under careful guard; Marianne wears hers in the open. Across the three episodes Elinor quietly hopes for reserved Edward Ferrars, while Marianne is pulled between the steady Colonel Brandon and the dazzling, unreliable Willoughby. From the calm of Norland to the drawing rooms of London, promises fray and engagements turn out to be other than they looked. Screenwriter Andrew Davies steers deliberately away from the 1995 film, adding a sharper, more sensual edge while staying close to the book.
It is a slow, intimate watch for anyone who loves Austen and early-nineteenth-century England. Dan Stevens and Hattie Morahan play it restrained and exact. Stream all episodes of Sense and Sensibility Season 1 online on iFILM.
3 episodes
S1·E1Part 1
When Mr Dashwood dies, he leaves his Sussex estate Norland – undivided, as the law requires – to his first marriage son John. John's wife, Fanny, convinces him to deny, in the name of their only son Henry's inheritance, his widowed stepmother and her three daughters the generosity understood at his father's deathbed. When the heiress-in-law's brother Edward Ferrars visits, he proves a perfect, understanding gentleman mutually drawn to eldest daughter Elinor.
S1·E2Part 2
Marianne attracts the attention of stoic war hero Colonel Brandon, but herself is only interested in charming and glamorous rival Willoughby; their exclusive mutual attentions convinces most that they are engaged—until Willoughby suddenly departs for London. Edward keeps his promise to visit, but seems troubled and guarded.
S1·E3Part 3
In London, Willoughby acknowledges no connection to Marianne and marries wealthy heiress Grey. Elinor must hide her heartbreak when she learns Edward is engaged to Miss Lucy Steel; but when his mother learns of the engagement, she disinherits him. Fortune ultimately smiles unexpectedly on both Dashwood sisters.
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