Stream It Or Skip It: ‘My Brilliant Career’ On Netflix, About A Headstrong Aspiring Writer Who Resists Being Married Off By Her Society Grandmother

Based on the 1901 novel by Miles Franklin, the series stars Philippa Northeast, Christopher Chung, and Anna Chancellor.

Based on the feminist writer Miles Franklin’s 1901 novel of the same name — and having been previously adapted in Gillian Armstrong’s acclaimed 1979 film starring Judy Davis and Sam Neill — Netflix’s “My Brilliant Career” has a lot to live up to. The Australian period drama, adapted into a series by Liz Doran, is…

Phillipa Northeast is brilliant as a young woman rebelling against society’s expectations in 1890s Australia. It is witty, intelligent and absolutely glorious to watch “I’m hot headed, with a snub nose, and that’s why I prefer a direct gaze.” So speaks Sybylla, the charmingly irrepressible and irrepressibly charming h

It is now streaming on Netflix and viewers are hailing it as a 'masterpiece' period drama vastly superior to Bridgerton, particularly praising its stunning costumes and visual splendour

Netflix Chinese Australian actor Christopher Chung takes on a lead romantic role in the new Netflix adaptation of Miles Franklin’s classic 1901 Australian novel, My Brilliant Career. Chung plays Harry Beecham, the handsome and wealthy suitor of the novel’s protagonist and narrator, Sybylla Melvyn. Teenage Sybylla – wh

‘My Brilliant Career’ Review: Revisiting an Australian Classic on Netflix  WSJ

An adaptation of the Miles Franklin classic My Brilliant Career will come to Netflix this week, with members of the cast and crew saying the defiance in this production lives in the expansion of the world Franklin created.