Anne of Green Gables means a lot to me as a Canadian and as a girl with family from Prince Edward Island. Even without those two things that tie me culturally to the books by Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables was a character I related to and loved, an early feminist hero even before I knew what feminism was.

Then there was the movie that came out staring Megan Follows in 1985. That movie is over 30 years old now but I still didn’t see the movie until after I had read the books… and had seen the musical about 500 times. Yes, in Prince Edward Island, there is an Anne of Green Gables musical… and yes, I can sing every damn song still to this day. They are permanently embedded in my mind.

It gives me SO MUCH JOY to write this post and say that Netflix is bringing us a brand-new Anne of Green Gables series starring Amybeth McNulty simply called Anne (with an ‘e’, of course).

Anne Shirley is a quirky, brilliant, 13-year-old orphan living on Prince Edward Island (that’s a Canadian province just north of Nova Scotia, FYI) in the 1890s. When she’s mistakenly sent to live with a brother and sister in their 60s, she winds up changing their lives and transforming their small town.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! AH AH AHHHHHH!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

I have SO MANY FEELINGS ABOUT THIS AND THEY’RE ALL EXCITED ABOUT THIS SHOW!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Anne will be available to stream on May 12, 2017 and I swear to jeebus, I am taking that WHOLE WEEKEND OFF to watch it immediately. Watch the trailer below:

Stephanie Cooke
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Stephanie is a Toronto based writer and editor. She's a comic book fan, avid gamer, movie watcher, lover of music, and sarcasm. She is a purveyor of too many projects and has done work for Talking Comics, JoBlo.com, Agents of Geek, Word of the Nerd, C&G Magazine, Dork Shelf, and more. Her writing credits include "Home Sweet Huck" (Mark Millar's Millarworld Annual 2017), "Lungarella (Secret Loves of Geek Girls, 2016), "Behind Enemy Linens" (BLOCKED Anthology, 2017), "Home and Country" (Toronto Comics Anthology, 2017) and more to come. You can read more about her shenanigans over on her <a href="http://www.stephaniecooke.ca">personal web site</a>.

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