Sense & Sensibility
Widow Dashwood and her three unmarried daughters, Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, inherit only a tiny allowance, so they move out of their grand Sussex home to a more modest cottage in Devonshire. There, the prevailing ambition is to find suitable husbands for the girls. With help from wealthy neighbor Sir John Middleton, suitors for Elinor and Marianne are soon found--but not landed. They include dashing Willoughby, future vicar Edward Ferrars, and retired colonial gentleman Colonel Brandon.
- Metascore79
- 2008-2008
- 1 season
- BBC Warner
- Drama
- TV-14
Widow Dashwood and her three unmarried daughters, Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, inherit only a tiny allowance, so they move out of their grand Sussex home to a more modest cottage in Devonshire. There, the prevailing ambition is to find suitable husbands for the girls. With help from wealthy neighbor Sir John Middleton, suitors for Elinor and Marianne are soon found--but not landed. They include dashing Willoughby, future vicar Edward Ferrars, and retired colonial gentleman Colonel Brandon.
Season 1 Episode Guide
3 Episodes 2008
Episode 1
Episode #1.1
57 mins
When Mr. Dashwood dies, he leaves his Sussex estate Norland - undivided, as the law requires - to his first marriage son John. John's wife, Fanny, convinces him to deny, in the name of their only son Henry's inheritance, his widowed stepmother and her three daughters the generosity understood at his father's deathbed. When the heiress-in-law's brother Edward Ferrars visits, he proves a perfect, understanding gentleman mutually drawn to eldest daughter Elinor, but she's told mother Ferrars makes inheriting the vast family fortune conditional on marrying well. Once Mrs. Dashwood comes to terms with their impoverished status, she accepts country relative Sir John Middleton's offer to rent his cottage in Devonshire without even seeing it, and moves with only two servants, Thomas and Alice. Sir John insists on visits and presents them to rich widower Colonel Brandon, who shows interest in middle daughter Marianne, but she falls - initially literally - for younger gentleman Willoughby.
Episode 2
Episode #1.2
58 mins
Charming, generous Willoughby quickly wins the Dashwoods' trust and favor as Marianne's suitor. Asked for his intentions by rival Colonel Brandon, he coldly retorts. When Brandon is called away from a joint trip with the Middletons on Delaford estate, Willoughby takes over and shows her his grand family home Allenham, unchaperoned in the absence of his aunt, who neglects it. Then he reports that his aunt is sending him to London, indefinitely. Edward Ferrars' long overdue, unexpected visit is warmly welcomed, but he's gloomy and leaves soon. When the Middletons invite the Dashwoods along to London, neither lover calls by. Elinor learns that Lucy Steele is engaged to Edward.
Episode 3
Episode #1.3
59 mins
Colonel Brandon wounds but spares Willoughby, who married heiress Grey, in a duel. Later, Brandon explains that while he was in colonial India, Willoughby seduced his charge in England and abandoned her with a daughter. Elinor is heartbroken herself that Edward Ferrars is engaged to Miss Lucy Steele. His haughty mother disinherits him in favor of younger brother Robert after sister Anne betrays that engagement. But new turns of events bring both sisters unexpected fortune.
