‘Anne With an E’ Refresher: Where Season 1 Left Off With the Cuthberts, Gilbert, and More

[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers from Season 1 of “Anne With an E,” including the finale.]It’s been more than year since “Anne With an E” graced the streaming shores of Netflix.

The latest adaptation of the L.M.

Montgomery period children’s book “Anne of Green Gables” takes the titular heroine to much darker places thanks to series creator Moira Walley-Beckett, who’s known for her writing on “Breaking Bad.” Even though the only Blue Sky found on “Anne With an E” is overhead, the show still puts an edgy spin to the optimism and purity seen in the novel.In part, these darker sequences serve to give a more realistic picture of what Anne’s life was like growing up as a young woman during Edwardian times as an orphan.

But the show also ventured into new territory and explored issues such as sexism, bullying, and prejudice.As Netflix returns to Avonlea for Season 2, here’s

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