The newly added review continues to praise Netflix’s remake of My Brilliant Career as a confident, modernised period drama that justifies revisiting Miles Franklin’s 1901 novel. It argues that showrunner Liz Doran retains the story’s central conflict between social expectation and female independence while giving it a contemporary energy through music and characterisation.

Set in early-1900s Australia, the series follows aspiring writer Sybylla Melvyn, played by Philippa Northeast, who is invited to her wealthy grandmother Winifred Bossier’s Caddagat estate. Her grandmother intends to secure her a husband, but Sybylla hopes to gain financial and personal independence through writing; her unconventional behaviour disrupts the matchmaking effort while bringing new friendships and a possible romance. The adaptation arrives nearly 50 years after Gillian Armstrong’s Oscar-nominated film version and draws comparisons with Bridgerton, The Buccaneers, Little Women and Dickinson.