Deborah Ross

Everyone involved should be in prison: Netflix’s Persuasion reviewed

Not for life, but until we could be confident they’d learned the error of their ways and there was minimal risk of reoffending

It may be the longest one hour and 49 minutes of your life: Lydia Rose Bewley, Richard E. Grant, Dakota Williams and Yolanda Kettle in Persuasion. Credit: Nick Wall/Netflix © 2022
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