David and Lisa Campbell return to discuss the first two half-hour episodes of The Other Bennet Sister (streaming on Binge in Australia and BBC in the UK), praising it as a highly watchable Pride and Prejudice-adjacent retelling from Mary Bennet’s perspective. They highlight Ella Bruccoleri’s performance as Mary, Ruth Jones’s more anxious and monstrous Mrs. Bennet, Richard E. Grant’s checked-out Mr. Bennet, and the inspired casting of 1995 Mary (Lucy Briers) as housekeeper Hill. Episode 1 focuses on Mary’s isolation, her mother’s cruelty about her looks, getting glasses, and a hopeful connection with Mr. Sparrow that Mrs. Bennet brutally shuts down. Episode 2 covers Mr. Collins (Ryan Sampson), a more calculating Charlotte Lucas, and Mary’s humiliating Netherfield performance of “Be Gone, Dull Care,” ending with a shock departure.

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