41 Thoughts We Had While Watching the Netflix Pride and Prejudice Teaser

It’s been 21 years since The Hand Flex, which can only mean one thing: the time has come for a fresh take on Pride and Prejudice. Netflix released a teaser for the upcoming miniseries starring Emma Corrin and Jack Lowden—adapted by popular British romance author Dolly Aldreton—and it really got us thinking…

1. Wow this looks like Pride and Prejudice (2005)
2. But wait we just remembered this is a series and not a movie
3. Cue “Liz on Top of the World”
4. Is this P&P 2005 fan fic?
5. Emma Corrin’s curls
6. From Lady Di to Lizzy Bennet, Emma really does excel at playing the people’s princess.
7. Hmmmm, a blue-eyed Lizzy Bennet…
8. Need to re-read Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton asap
9. A lot of hand shots here, 2005 hand flex you will always be famous
10. Her dress really looks like Keira’s dress
11. Lizzy is an outdoorsy gal and these nature sounds and visuals are really giving that
12. Do we get to hear the entire Letter™ in this adaptation?
13. What book is that?
14. His name really is Fitzwilliam, huh
15. Queen Anne’s Lace shoutout
16. Sensing inspo from that wheat field scene in Gladiator
17. Is Darcy skipping rocks?
18. Wait, Everything I Know About Love is also a show? Okay, have to watch
19. Lizzy is already in love
20. Also her wig really isn’t that bad, thank god
21. “Why are you running?”
22. So many eyes!
23. Jack Lowden reveal, Slow Horses hive rise
24. “I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.”
25. Where did they film this?
26. It really looks like Pride and Prejudice (2005)
27. They have their dancing moment, confirmed
28. These two will definitely deliver enemies-to-lovers
29. That was a very charged sigh
30. Not Mr. Darcy having his Fiyero moment on that horse…
31. We can’t actually tell what color Darcy’s hair is. Blonde?? What happened to #GingerDarcy
32. Is that Jonathan Bailey’s horse Jack, of Bridgerton and Wicked fame?
33. In what part of the book is Darcy yearning on a horse?
34. That was the fastest 35 seconds of my life
35. “Coming fall 2026” is far too vague, give us a date
36. Wait just remembered Olivia Colman is playing Mrs. Bennet…yes.
37. Can’t wait to meet the other Bennet sisters!
38. #Noticing that Netflix is framing this as a “faithful adaptation”... 
39. Marked safe from a “Wuthering Heights”-style “adaptation”
40. Seems like you can rest easy, Jane.
41. We’re seated. Netflix is scared and asking us to chill because it’s “not released yet” but we’re simply too seated.

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