Miss Austen
  • Network: PBS
  • Series Premiere Date: May 4, 2025
Metascore
73

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14

Critic Reviews

  1. Collider
    Reviewed by: Maggie Boccella
    May 5, 2025
    60
    There’s little to be said about how much of the series is taken up by a plot that doesn’t quite mesh with its overarching themes of grief and familial love. The series’ real juice comes when it focuses on Hawes as the elder Cassandra.
  2. The Telegraph
    Reviewed by: Anita Singh
    Feb 3, 2025
    60
    It’s a pleasant way to pass an hour. The insurmountable problem is that if you make a period drama about Jane Austen, it automatically draws comparison to a period drama by Jane Austen, and it will be found wanting.
  3. The Independent
    Reviewed by: Nick Hilton
    Feb 3, 2025
    60
    It’s rather an unfair standard to hold them to. Miss Austen might not achieve the sororal interplay of the Dashwoods in Sense and Sensibility, the emotional range of Anne Elliot in Persuasion, or the romantic badinage of Mr Knightley and young Miss Woodhouse in Emma, but there’s still plenty to be admired.
  5. The Observer (UK)
    Reviewed by: Andrew Anthony
    Feb 10, 2025
    40
    This adaptation of Gill Hornby’s novel has all the familiar Austen components – creepy clergyman, spiteful in-law, yearning young lovers – except sharp wit.