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I have a bit of a cold, so I spent the weekend mainlining all the made-for-TV RomComs on Peacock. Imagine my surprise when I encountered this little film: a low-budget retelling of Pride and Prejudice, in which a group of actors are rehearsing for a low-budget adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.

Of course, the personalities of all of the actors are eerily similar to the characters - the actress playing Jane is a sweetheart, the actor playing Wickham is a cad, etc. Scenes tend to repeat. For example: they'll rehearse the scene in which Lizzie tells Jane that according to Darcy, Wickham has grossly misrepresented their past. Then the director will call cut, and then during their break between scenes, the two actresses will talk about how the actor playing Darcy claims the actor playing Wickham has grossly misrepresented their past.

We see scenes like this in duplicate so many times that it begins to become inexplicable that the characters don't acknowledge that their life has started to imitate the story.

As a P&P adaptation, it's a bit wobbly. We lose the three youngest Bennets, Mr. Bennet, Charlotte Lucas, Georgiana, and Mr. Collins. (Though you could maybe argue that Mr. Collins and Mr. Wickham have been combined into one character.) The first proposal sucks, unfortunately. It's underwritten, so "Liam" and "Kate" have an argument that makes no sense as it meanders around various plot points. Colin Firth declaring: "I like you just the way you are" it is not.

Still, the story has heart, and Lexi Giovagnoli and David Witts give it their all. (I'd describe Witts' Darcy as a Daniel Gillies-esque performance, but Gillies in The Originals, not as Wickham in B&P.) To be frank: Becoming Ms. Bennet ranks pretty low on the list of P&P adaptations, but it's a perfectly adequate low-budget, made-for-TV romcom.

Oh, and a big "wtf" to whoever edited the poster for this to give the leading lady a weird fake tan. I also don't really know why they're holding up a smashed picture of themselves that looks like something from a thriller?

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