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26/12/2013 Drama, Mystery 0h 59m
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Overview

A British television drama based on P. D. James' novel of the same name, a murder mystery sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Six years after the union of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, Lydia Wickham barges into Pemberley screaming that her husband has been murdered.

Top billed cast

  1. Matthew Rhys

    Fitzwilliam Darcy

  2. Anna Maxwell Martin

    Elizabeth Darcy

  3. Matthew Goode

    George Wickham

  4. Trevor Eve

    Sir Selwyn Hardcastle

  5. Jenna Coleman

    Lydia Wickham

  6. Oliver Rix

    Cartwright

  7. Tom Ward

    Colonel Fitzwilliam

  8. Eleanor Tomlinson

    Georgiana Darcy

  9. James Norton

    Henry Alveston

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Current Season

Season 1

 2013 | 3 Episodes

June 1803, six years after the union of Elizabeth and Mr Darcy: one evening, George Wickham and his wife Lydia are travelling by carriage to Pemberley for a ball with Captain Denny. Wickham and Denny have a dispute, and leave in anger. The two men disappear into the woodland, where Lydia hears two gunshots.

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Reviews

A review by Peter McGinn
Written by Peter McGinn on 2022-07-03
This non-Austen sequel to Pride and Prejudice was quite good. It featured an intelligent rendering of the familiar story and characters of the original, but you would expect no less from the PD James novel.

Since I watch a lot of British programming, sec=verbal of the actors were familiar to me, and the ensemble cast stayed in their lanes and put on a great collective performance.

It must have been fun for them and the director, for they were able to reenact familiar scenes from Pride and Prejudice as memory flashbacks.

There were traces i=of character growth here and there, but chara...read the rest
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Status
Ended

Original Language
English

Original Name
Death Comes to Pemberley

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