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But that tagline, Being agreeable never did a woman any good and the director's near disdain for history and the original text outlined in this article:

“I’m a little bit sick of the sort of fetishization of that time period, and this idea that everybody spent, like, seven hours doing their hair and makeup, and everything was always pristine, and somebody was always waiting to help you out of your dress or whatever. I’m not a historian, but I don’t buy all of it.”

"I know I'll be criticized for lack of historical accuracy, so why don't I call you all creepers for liking up-dos before you can protest. Also, I'm proud to be ignorant."

“One of our actors hadn’t seen the previous film, and he hadn’t read the book, and he asked me whether he should,” Oakley recalls. “I was like, ‘Well, maybe don’t.’ It’s kind of important for some people to come at this without any of those preconceptions. Something I would love is for people who know nothing of the book and who haven’t seen previous versions of it to see this and to connect with it.”

Remember when we were all so excited that Ian McKellen was a huge fan of the books of Lord of the Rings and kept them on set? Where did that energy go? Though honestly, I'd be happy to see a new Sense & Sensibility adaptation that leaves 1995 alone. If Margaret is a pirate again, I'm out.

During World War II, Elinor Powell, an African American nurse, joined the racially segregated army in Jim Crow-era Arizona. The discrimination she faced compounded after she fell in love with Frederick Albert, a German prisoner of war to whom she was assigned. 

Lisa Needham at Daily Kos:

States are fleeing the Great American State Fair and, well, wouldn’t you? So far, the event seems to be going about as well as the Freedom 250 concert, which is to say that people are running away from this hot mess as quickly as possible.  The Trump administration took what should have been a nonpartisan celebration that states would have been eager to participate in and warped it into a gross celebration of President Donald Trump—conflating his own birthday with the birth of the nation. 

There’s been a ton of slippage, a deliberate confusion, as to which events are official America 250 happenings and which are actually Freedom 250 events—the gross bribe-fueled Trump-centered affair. The tacky concert on the mall that collapsed? Freedom 250! The tacky Ultimate Fighting Championship cage match on the White House lawn? Not even Freedom 250—just a fun little for-profit fight! With a Freedom 250-spawned state fair set to include things like a replica of Trump’s totally illegal and totally gross arch, it isn’t really surprising that blue states are dropping out.  Honestly, this sounds low rent as hell. Apparently, Freedom 250 paid for each pavilion and buildout, but states have to pay for decorations. According to CNN, at least five states are declining the opportunity to build a tacky little pavilion on the National Mall: Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts, Illinois, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. And NOTUS reported that Maine is out, and Maryland is uncommitted.  Yes, states are out in part because this thing turned into a Trump jamboree, but Freedom 250 also made it stupidly expensive.