Walley-Beckett’s series is recognizably “Anne of Green Gables,” but with a grimmer feel. And yet at the end of “Anne of Green Gables,” Anne quits college and returns to the farm to care for an ailing Marilla, never becoming the writer she wanted to be as a child. If you think of “Anne of Green Gables” as a love story and swoon at the name Gilbert Blythe, chances are you watched the mini-series. For all the changes that Walley-Beckett has made in adapting “Anne of Green Gables,” she understands this sentiment. “She is buoyant, she’s optimistic, she’s bright, she’s fiery, she’s sunny, she’s imaginative, she’s curious.

Source: New York Times April 27, 2017 09:00 UTC