Delightful beginning episode: a carriage overturns and falls off the road, setting up the story ...who but Andrew Davies would have this accident interrupt the heroine's rabbit hunting? No Elmer Fudd, she! Readers of Austen and fans of other film adaptations will know that "falling" is a motif which happens typically well into a story. What does it mean? Something to ponder. Thus Charlotte is spirited off to a seaside resort for some adventure. Though Charlotte is at first mistaken for a "new maid" by Sidney, her future love-interest, all goes well...not! Lots of plot twists and dashed expectations, not your purist Austen but irresistible nevertheless. Recommend purchasing PBS passport so you can binge all 8 episodes, because you will not appreciate being on pins and needles from week to week! (ps--posted a version of this review at first by mistake on the Episode 7 page; #7 is my favorite for the lovely, intense rowing scene with Sidney & Charlotte notwithstanding the intrusion of villainous Mrs Campion who serves as a rock in the road to true Austenesque love)