#mrs jennings

[dearvoidgoodnight]

I need an adaptation of Sense and Sensibility featuring Meryl Streep as Mrs. Jennings.

It would be incredible. She would be a revelation.

[didanagy]

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1995)

dir. ang lee

[aria-baerose]

[firawren]

Mrs. Jennings living her best life:

[roliejolieolie]

I’m reading Sense & Sensibility and I actually love Mrs Jennings.

She’s like, “Elinor, Miss Steele will sing like a canary so find out everything because I need the tea and I just know it will be PIPING HOT. Let’s go.”

[nerdylibertarian928]

Is the 2008 Sense & Sensibility any good or should I not bother and stick to the 1995 one

[hitchell-mope]

Decent movie. I’d probably watch it again.

[autumnrose11]

We're also told by the end that Marianne regrets her earlier behaviour towards her, and realises how genuinely kind Mrs Jennings has been. That was a good moment!

I love Sense and Sensibility because it strongly and quietly affirms the value of having a good heart above all and even to the exclusion of all else. Mrs. Jennings (and Charlotte, and even Mr Palmer once in a while) has less charm and good taste than Willoughby, is less respectable than Fanny and less clever than Lucy, but by the end of the book we are told Elinor loves Mrs. Jennings. she is referred to sincerely as Elinor’s friend. we witness moments of their not only bearing each other up but enjoying each other.

[velvet4510]

If it weren’t for Billy creating the Road, Sharon would’ve died completely alone, never again having a taste of sisterhood or adventure.

If it weren’t for Billy creating the Road, Jen would never have unbound herself or regained her power.

If it weren’t for Billy creating the Road, Alice would never have known what her mother did for her or broken the curse, achieving what her ancestors could not.

If it weren’t for Billy creating the Road, Lilia would never have achieved closure within herself or understood her own purpose in life.

If it weren’t for Billy creating the Road, Agatha would never have learned to love a child again or realized that she could still be more than just a killer.

Every member of the coven, whether they physically survived in the end or not, was given something immeasurably valuable by Billy through his Hex of the Road.

He may have “killed” some of them.

But in truth, in one way or another, he saved all of them.

[borgialucrezia]

"Lizzie was incredibly loyal to Tommy and their relationship has grown steadily. He trusts her very much and that’s why he married her. You have to keep important people like that close!" — CILLIAN MURPHY (2019, TV Times Magazine)

[the-ominous-owl]

The coven before they were the coven.

[idkwhatever580]

I was gonna make y’all wait but I’m impatient too so here you go!

@yourbasicqueerie @ilovesnat @ihartnat @marvelnatasha12346 @moistblobfish @justarandomreaderxoxo @lovelyy-moonlight @symp4nat @ale-estrabao @mrsrushman @kkreader78o @cheekysnake

Happy day. I hope that you like my personal beef with Jen. I know she’s not horrible and all but I still kinda beef with her. She’s pretty though. (Honestly I just thought it would be funny as hell bc she seems to have a lot of beef with Agatha (not talking about the binding incident that’s a diff story) and I think that Rio wouldn’t take it lightly. I also couldn’t help but create some drama and who else to stir the pot with than the potions witch???

[mrswife-mrhubs]

Please Enjoy Jen

Taken by me Mr Hubs

[agathaharknesscovernofquotes]

Rio: Agatha. Darling. Sweetheart. Light of my life. Agatha: You're angry with me, aren't you? Rip: *Smiling sweetly* Livid.

[katerinadeannika]

Notes after watching the full Behind the Scenes of Agatha All Along posted on Nov 13th 2024:

There was no way they could have written an ending for Agatha that did not involve death.

I have been saying this to all the naysayers from the get-go, to all the people making posts about being done or fed up or angry about the ending, or how it makes no sense, or how they should have could have done something different and been fine story wise. The behind the scenes confirmed my point.

The main through line for the entire show was the theme of Death; of Agatha never being able to escape it. Where she both loves and hates death and Death, the concept and the woman. Where she's been running from Death for centuries, but Death came for her son and was always coming for her the second she slowed down.

Every completed trial meant someone would die. Billy created the road based off the rumors and witch lore. And the only rumors out in the witch world were that someone knew someone else's aunt/relative/friend who had undertaken the road and never returned. In reality, that was Agatha's doing. But to Billy, it meant that somehow, the Road took its toll on them. And when the coven traveled it, the Road exacted the same price that Billy expected it to. Death or near death at every trial.

The first trial killed Sharon. The second gave Alice her power back and then Billy almost died (and probably would have if Agatha hadn't pleaded with Rio on his behalf, if the coven hadn't worked together, and if Billy hadn't made the Road with his own powers. Some interesting combo of the all the above). The third trial killed Alice who was trying to save Agatha. And the fourth trial killed Lilia and the Salem Seven.

Jac said she intentionally wrote it where Death was a very real thing that everyone in the show had to come to terms with.

And for Jen Kale, her gift was already dead, and she was supposed to resurrect it and take her own power back. She escaped because after Agatha's trial, the fifth one, someone DID die.

And this time it was Agatha.

Agatha had avoided it every other time by either being saved, or having the rest of the coven as fodder for death.

But in the end, when she could have left once again, she must decide who has to pay the final price for her invention of the Road. The Road that she has used to kill and lure countless witches to their doom over the past few centuries.

She can save the boy she has come to love and mentor after the loss of her son. Or, she can leave once again. And so she makes the final moment of self sacrifice, and chooses the final victim of the Road: Herself

She has been running from Death for centuries.

For Agatha's story to have a thematic ending that wasn't cheap or manufactured, she had to stay true to that through-line. That's how writing works. You find your themes. You write about and explore them. And you have a final consequence that determines if it's a positive arc or a negative arc for your main character.

They chose for Agatha to have a positive arc. A moment of final growth. To end the show on her finally making the right decision, even at the cost of the life she's sustained through countless centuries and via countless deaths.

There was no way the show could have ended any other way.

PS: There is no excuse to hate on it. At all.

It doesn't meet any of the criteria for the 'Bury your gays' trope. It doesn't even end Agatha’s story. But it does provide expertly written, well thought out, thematically poignant endings for all the characters in a way that satisfies their personal journey—throughout the show and the centuries.

And I am so glad they made it, and that it ended how it did. I wouldn’t want it any other way. As a writer. As an editor. As a viewer. And as a lesbian.

Agatha All Along is a masterpiece in TV writing. And I can’t wait for more.

PSS: Watch the Behind the Scenes on youtube that Marvel just posted. It’s super good and includes all sorts of info to help with fic writing and just general understanding of the writing and show creation. Also lots of Kathryn Hahn and Aubrey Plaza in interviews!

TLDR: Quit complaining and griping about the ending. It was written beautifully. The reason you got so invested is because of all the heavy death elements throughout that made things mean something. Embrace it. Or find media where you were the target audience. Cause if you couldn’t handle something well written that ends like this, you weren’t the target audience. And that’s okay. But move on before you keep griping and causing issues with the community and the cast.

[captainjackscoat]

Alice is Billy's cool big sister. Agatha is their weird mum. Rio is their femme dad. Jen is the bitchy aunt (who isn't related but might as well be). Patti LuPone is the kooky, wispy grandmother. Sharon is the sweet stereotypical grandmother.