Anne with an E (2017)
Anne with an E is a 2017 drama series created by Moira Walley-Beckett. It stars Amybeth McNulty, Geraldine James and R.H. Thomson.
An orphan with red braids and a runaway imagination arrives at Green Gables by mistake. Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert, an aging sister and brother on a Prince Edward Island farm, expected a boy to help with the work and got thirteen-year-old Anne Shirley instead. Moira Walley-Beckett's series reworks Lucy Maud Montgomery's 1908 novel into something rawer, honest about the scars of an abusive childhood while keeping Anne's fierce warmth intact. Amybeth McNulty plays her as a girl who talks too much, feels everything, and slowly wins over a town that did not ask for her.
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What is Anne with an E about?
An orphan with red braids and a runaway imagination arrives at Green Gables by mistake. Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert, an aging sister and brother on a Prince Edward Island farm, expected a boy to help with the work and got thirteen-year-old Anne Shirley instead. Moira Walley-Beckett's series reworks Lucy Maud Montgomery's 1908 novel into something rawer, honest about the scars of an abusive childhood while keeping Anne's fierce warmth intact. Amybeth McNulty plays her as a girl who talks too much, feels everything, and slowly wins over a town that did not ask for her.
When was Anne with an E released?
Anne with an E was released on 19 March 2017.
How many episodes does Anne with an E have?
Anne with an E has 27 episodes across 3 seasons.
Who made Anne with an E?
Anne with an E was created by Moira Walley-Beckett.
Where can I watch Anne with an E?
Anne with an E is available on Netflix and Amazon.
Where to watch Anne with an E
Stream: Netflix
Buy: Amazon
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Cast
- Amybeth McNulty as Anne Shirley
- Geraldine James as Marilla Cuthbert
- R.H. Thomson as Matthew Cuthbert
- Dalila Bela as Diana Barry
- Lucas Jade Zumann as Gilbert Blythe
- Corrine Koslo as Rachel Lynde
- Helen Johns as Mrs. Eliza Barry
- Aymeric Jett Montaz as Jerry Baynard
- Kyla Matthews as Ruby Gillis
- Jonathan Holmes as Mr. William Barry
- Lia Pappas-Kemps as Jane Andrews
- Jacob Ursomarzo as Moody Spurgeon
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A few thoughts on Anne with an E
Little House on the Prairie offers the same frontier-childhood texture in book form, and Pollyanna shares the orphan-who-changes-a-town warmth. For a gentle take on a teenage girl finding herself, the game Life Is Strange trades farm chores for small-town mystery but keeps the emotional honesty. Natsume's Book of Friends brings similar quiet kindness in manga.
Orphans and foundlings who upend a quiet household
Anne with an E drops a talkative, imaginative orphan into a farmhouse that expected a boy, and watches a whole family reshape around her. These stories share that spark: a child arrives where no one planned for them and slowly rewrites the household. Two novels and three series carry the same warmth Anne brings to Green Gables.
Literary period dramas adapted with real feeling
Anne with an E treats Lucy Maud Montgomery's Prince Edward Island as a living, changing place, not a postcard. If that grounded period texture is the draw, these adaptations deliver corsets and candlelight with genuine emotional stakes: class, family, and hardship rendered as more than costume. All five bring novels and eras to vivid, human life.
Teen dramas that take their young characters seriously
Anne with an E never talks down to its teenagers, letting bullying, identity, and first heartbreak land with weight. These titles do the same, treating adolescence as real drama rather than background noise. From high-school hallways to a small-town mystery you can play through, each gives young people the interior lives Anne insists they deserve.