Another BBC miniseries adaptation of a Jane Austen novel, I guess these are just things I watch now...Thankfully there doesn't seem to be more, apart from maybe 1, left (I hope so). Sense and Sensibility doesn't have nearly the compelling character work from Pride and Prejudice, but it is still an interesting enough story. While once again tackling similar themes, a particular one regarding the societal pressures and expectations placed on women when it comes to marriage, doesn't work quite as well. Our two main young ladies, Elinor and Marianne, seemingly fall in love with the first guys that show them interest, as long as they aren't old enough to be their father. The younger of the sisters (sensibility), rushes into a romance at a hundred miles an hour and what should prove a decision that leads to social fatality, doesn't quite work because of the plot. The plot makes sure that the girls get a happy ending, and I am left wishing we had gotten more than 3 episodes because far too much is crammed into the last half hour for my liking. I had to watch Marianne apparently fall in love with the governor from The Walking Dead-erm I mean David Morrissey's character, and it never really feels earned. The show can tell me that she isn't marrying out of gratitude as much as it wants, but you have to spend time to convince me of this instead of just telling me. Elinor, fairs well by the end in a somehow more miraculous way. It's like I'm meant to believe her love interest was suddenly free from his promise and his mother was ok with marrying off the same lady to someone else just like that. It's all a bit strange. Even stranger is the lack of chemistry between any of these people supposedly in love. Morrissey's Colonel apparently hasn't look at any other woman but of course he's instantly smitten with Marianne. We are told he's 35 and I chuckled because that dude was comfortable in his mid-40s and he looked it. Elinor and her sister are pushing 30 lads, please stop trying to make me think one is 19 and the other 16 or 17! Like bloody hell the colonel is more than TWICE her age and their chemistry is non-existent so it makes it even harder to pretend to get behind their romance. Well, I guess that's better than if stuck with a certain horrible dude that is easily the most despicable of the characters. Also, what's with these mothers in these stories? They are either dying, or are so meek and almost lifeless I don't know how they've survived so long. Mrs. Dashwood behaves like a person perpetually stuck as a deer in headlights. I don't know where she'd be without her eldest daughter. I initially had a lot more to say but I suppose it's all gotten away from me. Anyway, Sense and Sensibility does enough to be pretty decent, but the writing and somewhat rushed ending takes it down a notch (it's like a 6.5 as opposed to a 7).