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Pride and Prejudice
1995 · TV series · 55 min episodes · 1 season
Created by Andrew Davies
Set in England in the early 19th century, Pride and Prejudice tells the story of Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters after the rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, have moved into their neighbourhood. While Bingley takes an immediate liking to the eldest Bennet daughter, Jane, Darcy has difficulty adapting to local society and repeatedly clashes with the second-eldest Bennet daughter, Elizabeth.
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I recall a story about the making of a popular TV series soundtrack (BBC's Pride and Prejudice 1995), they got all the musicians in to run through the score once, then recorded the whole lot in one go.
As a young man of low social acumen I particularly benefitted from the TV/film adaptations. The best are faithful to Austen's texts and contain added knowledge from the actors and directors. For instance they show something of how the author's scenes might manifest in terms of speech tone and facial expression. My favourites are:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice_(1995_TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_and_Sensibility_(film)
This is a fascinating read - and an adventure down the rabbit-hole.
I think they missed an opportunity to make the IDs map 1-1 with human-readable titles though. They use the argument that they have many versions of "pride and prejudice" and don't know which they may have in the future, but that sounds to me like a cop-out. There must be something differentiating those different shows to viewers (else, why make them?) so refer to that, surely? That doesn't mean /prideandprejudice2, but whatever differentiates that series from the first one.
I'm not particularly addressing this from a search perspective (they address that in the post) but more from a UX / readability / shareability perspective.
There's a few other pieces of weirdness to my mind e.g. "And hacking back to /episodes would have returned what? A list of all episodes ever?"
Yes. That's similar to what /programmes is isn't it? Obviously you can segment / add hierarchy.