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Review Readers: I wrote this review back in 2015. Amazon now offers the complete 3-part version to stream for Prime Members. So, my earlier comments which follow do not fit the Prime streaming version you can get today. I tried to purchase it, but couldn't. Amazon allows you to stream it with Prime, but not to purchase it in any form other than as a DVD. So, I am stuck owning the two-episode, cut down version. I am glad Amazon corrected the problem. It's great to watch this wonderful version the way it was originally broadcast. Now I don't have to rely on my DVD. 2015 review: My Austen lovers beware! This streaming version is DIFFERENT from the broadcast and DVD versions--it has been reduced to Just Two Episodes. First of all, I absolutely LOVE this 2008 version of Sense and Sensibility and own two DVD sets. I have watched it multiple times and adore the music, the setting and all of the performances. Please know before you buy this instant video version that it has been chopped up so that it will fit into two episodes. The original version which aired on BBC and PBS and which you can own on DVD has three episodes. Wonderful dialogue from Mrs. Jennings has been cut in several areas, for example, and other moments are gone that give this version flow and balance. If you enjoyed this on TV or DVD you will notice it immediately. I suggest you buy the DVD version. I am very disappointed that Amazon would offer this without advising that it has been shortened and changed. And it's a shame that whoever owns the rights to this production would allow it to happen. If they had not altered it, I would have given it five stars. As it is, I gave it two simply because I did not have the heart to put only one star next to one of my favorite tele-versions of this story. If you have never seen it before, please buy the DVD version, so you can enjoy it in the way it deserves.