Anne with an E is among the most underrated period drama shows on Netflix. Read on to find out will there be another season of Anne with an E.
Netflix has some of the best period pieces and historic drama shows. Its latest addition to its already giant library of period pieces was Bridgerton. But one of the most underrated period bits on the platform is Anne with an ‘E.’ According to writer Lucy Maud Montgomery’s 1908 classic work of children’s literature, Anne of Green Gables, the series was created by Moira Walley-Beckett for CBC.
The lead character of Anne Shirley is played by celebrity Amybeth McNulty, Geraldine James celebrities Marilla Cuthbert, R. H. Thomson as Matthew Cuthbert, Dalila Bela as Diana Barry, and Lucas Jade Zumann as Gilbert Blythe. Anne with an E season 3 has been released in September 2019. Now that it has been a year since the preceding year aired, fans are wondering why has not Anne with an E returned for one more season.
Netflix had decided to cancel Anne with an E after the next season. But fans demonstrated their undivided support for the show and began a Change.org request to save it that obtained 1.5 million signatures. There were billboards purchased by fans from Canada and Texas to”save Anne with an E”. But unfortunately, none of this may change the decision of these makers to bring back the show and Netflix is business with their decision.
The show is put in 1896, when older brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, who live together, decide to adopt an orphan boy to help out around their ancestral farm of Green Gables. But when Matthew proceeds to pick the child up in the railway station, he finds 13-year-old Anne Shirley. Anne is an imaginative, glowing, high-spirited, and talkative woman.
She’s also an orphan, as her parents died when she was a couple of months old. Since then Anne has lived as a slave in various families before being put into an orphanage. She was abused emotionally and physically throughout her period as a slave and at the orphanage. However, when Anne arrives at Green Gables she ends up changing the lives of all its residents.
The show has a series of talented actors who played their roles throughout the series. Amybeth McNulty played the titular role, Anne Shirley, Geraldine James did Marilla Cuthbert, R.H. Thomson did Matthew Cuthbert, Dalila Bela did Diana Barry and Lucas Jade Zumann did Gilbert Blythe about the Collection.
Few new developments also starred in the show: Ashleigh Stewart (as a clerk’s daughter) and Winifred Rose (as Gilbert’s love interest).