MY BRILLIANT CAREER- LIMITED SERIES ON NETFLIX

 Hey Binge-Watchers,

If you liked Bridgerton, you'll like this period drama set in rural Australia in the turn of the early 20th Century. Basically in the late 19th to early 20th century- more like 1890s-1900/1901. The storyline follows a young woman called Sybylla who is forced to conform to the social normality of society where the class divide between the poor and rich is shown to her as reality checks by seeing the difference between her and Nell. The show shows themes like the heavy patriarchal expectation of forcing young women into marriage  and doing house-hold chores rather than having a fulfilling career. 

Sybylla is a head-strong, intelligent, ambitious heroine of the show who is an aspiring writer who fights against the pressures of society to be a married woman. Her creative mind makes her create content that is frowned upon in society as poetry is not meant to be shared out loud in the middle of debut parties when you overhear the chauvinist male prospects have discussions about you behind your back. What happens when she's faced with the choice between writing and romance when she meets the rich next door neighbour Harry Beecham? 

This Netflix mini-series will make you sit at the edge of your seat in anticipation as Sybylla's wild, fierce, independent, strong-minded nature will be put to the test as she has to wrestle between marriage and pursuing her career. Will she throw caution to the wind and risk it all for an all consuming love that will ignite her passionate spirit? Will she throw her love away to focus on the career she's been chasing since she's been given the opportunity to flourish and become an avid writer when she goes to Caddagat? This show will leave you sitting at the edge of your seats as Sybylla enters into sticky situations and figures out ways to get out of them. 

You'll be rooting for the poorer characters to make something of themselves as they try and make something of themselves in a male dominated world where women can't be foremen. They have to fight for everything they've got. 

My favourite characters were Sybylla, Harry, Frank, Helen, Augusta, Nell, Betty, Charlie, and Julius. 

I'd rate this show a solid 10/10. It was amazing, a real old-school, back in the day, critically acclaimed masterpiece. 

Add it to your lists. 

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P.S. One of my favourite lines from the show was: 

So what is man but a whiskey breath behind closed doors seeking to possess something that will never be his?'

Another line I really liked in the show from the poem was: 

'Nature wears her spirit, raw, feral, uncouth.'