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I am sure I havent watched them all yet, but I have viewed most of the adaptations of Jane Austen novels into movies and mini-series, and I have yet to see one I do not like. This version of Emma is no exception.
There is a very good ensemble cast of performers here, and even the characters who are somewhat silly: say, Miss Bates and Emmas germaphobic father, are played up for their comic effect while retaining enough depth to allow us to care about them.
I imagine scriptwriters enjoy the challenge of adapting a Jane Austen novel, because a lot of what ends up as dialogue in the script is, in the books, exposition. That is to say, blocks of text that the author uses to fill in events and thoughts to the readers. That allows freedom fo...