Anne of Green Gables

So about a month ago I watched the Netflix series “Anne with an E,” which is based off of the beloved series by L.M. Montgomery. For those who don’t know the series revolves around an orphan girl named Anne who is taken in by a brother and sister who live on a farm. Anne has such an infectious personality that it’s hard not to fall in love with her. I had never read the series before until now. I’m in the middle of reading while also reading other things. The Netflix series is what got me interested in the first place. Let’s first discuss the Netflix series. From the very first moment I absolutely fell in love with it. I felt like I could relate to Anne because she’s very much a dreamer and she sees the beauty in everything. I thought that was a very endearing quality about her. She romanticized people and objects. It’s like she constantly has stars in her eyes. Of course, there have been reviews on the series and surprisingly to me, there have been a lot of negative reviews. There have been positive reviews also, but the negative reviews really surprised me. The negative reviews have said how the Netflix series veers too much away from the source material and that the Netflix series is much darker than the book. I’m assuming that the reviewers are referring to some of the flashbacks that Anne has when she thinks back to the abuse that she endured while she was living with other people before she lived with the Cuthberts. Personally, I don’t see them as dark. Like one positive reviewer pointed out, it’s real life. The Anne in this series still keeps her familiar charm  and precociousness, and she is still the lovable Anne that people have come to know and love because of L.M. Montgomery.