Jane Austen is one of my favorite authors. And I do love her novel Northanger Abbey, one of her earliest completed novels. I just don't like this adaptation. And that's not because I sneer at them. I adore the Colin Firth Pride and Prejudice, the Emma Thompson Sense and Sensibility and the Gweneth Paltrow Emma. This adaptation I couldn't even make myself watch to the end.

Mind you, later I would come across an adaptation of Northanger Abbey I loved the 2007 production directed by Jon Jones with Geraldine James and Michael Judd in lead roles. Notably, the screenplay was by Andrew Davies, who did the Colin Firth Pride and Prejudice. So there is a Northanger Abbey out there to love--I'd just avoid this one directed by Giles Foster. ( )