Diana Barry is the ultimate kindred spirit, the yin to Anne of Green Gables' yang, a true blue pal for the ages. But who played her best? Was it Schuyler Grant from 1985's Anne of Green Gables, or Dalila Bela, from the recent Netflix/CBC Anne With an E? Let's talk Diana, shall we? Some … [Read more...]
There’s Fool’s Gold in Avonlea’s Hills: Anne with an E Episode 2 Review
Oooh boy. This new season of Anne with an E is testing my love, to be sure. If the last episode of the second season was 90% off book, this one was 95% off book. It's almost as if creator Moira Walley Beckett has created a ten-part fan fiction of Anne of Green Gables! Or at least, looking at it … [Read more...]
Review of “Anne with an E” 2 Episode 1: Welcome Back to Alternative Avonlea
Last we left them, our Cuthberts were grappling with a Green Gables in trouble--up to the hilt in debt and Matthew too sick to work. Gilbert went off to sea, but not before a tender goodbye from Anne. Jerry, the Cuthbert's French farm boy, was beaten in an alley in Charlottetown by a couple of … [Read more...]