Anne with an “E” was an episodic television series that was released internationally between 2017 and 2019. Produced by Northwood Entertainment in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the series (first broadcast on the CBC as Anne and referred to unofficially as Anne: The Series) consisted of twenty-seven episodes over three seasons.
Related pages: Anne with an “E” (2017–2019): Season 1 | Anne with an “E” (2017–2019): Season 2 | Anne with an “E” (2017–2019): Season 3
Overview
Created by Moira Walley-Beckett, the series starred Amybeth McNulty as Anne Shirley-Cuthbert, Geraldine James as Marilla Cuthbert, Dalila Bela as Diana Barry, Lucas Jade Zumann as Gilbert Blythe, Aymeric Jett Montaz as Jerry Baynard, Corrine Koslo as Rachel Lynde, and R.H. Thomson as Matthew Cuthbert.
The first season aired in Canada on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation starting on 19 March 2017 as Anne; it became available for streaming on Netflix worldwide except Canada on 12 May 2017 as Anne with an “E” and in Canada in January 2018. The seven episodes of the first season were written by series creator Moira Walley-Beckett and directed by Niki Caro, David Evans, Paul Fox, Sandra Goldbacher, Patricia Rozema, Helen Shaver, and Amanda Tapping. Walley-Beckett is executive producer alongside Miranda de Pencier, Sally Catto, Elizabeth Bradley, Alex Sapot, Debra Hayward, and Alison Owen; Susan Murdoch is producer; Patricia Curmi is associate producer. The first season of Anne was released on DVD in Canada in November 2017. The titles of all seven episodes of the season are quotations from Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre.
The second season of ten episodes was released worldwide (except Canada) on Netflix on 6 July 2018; in Canada, it aired in weekly instalments on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation starting on 23 September 2018 and was released on Netflix on 1 July 2019. New cast members this season included Dalmar Abuzeid as Sebastian “Bash” Lacroix, Cory Grüter-Andrew as Cole Mackenzie, Cara Ricketts as Mary, and Joanna Douglas as Miss Stacy. The ten episodes of the second season were written by Moira Walley-Beckett, Jane Maggs, Shernold Edwards, Kathryn Borel, Jr., Amanda Fahey, and Naledi Jackson and directed by Helen Shaver, Paul Fox, Ken Girotti, Anne Wheeler, Norma Bailey, and Amanda Tapping. Walley-Beckett is executive producer alongside Miranda de Pencier, Debra Hayward, Alison Owen, and Ken Girotti; John Calvert is producer; Patricia Curmi is associate producer; Jane Maggs and Shernold Edwards are supervising producers; and Amanda Fahey is co-producer. The second season of Anne with an E was released on DVD in Canada in November 2018. The titles of all ten episodes of the season are quotations from George Eliot’s novel Middlemarch.
The third season of ten episodes began airing in Canada on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation starting on 22 September 2019 and was released worldwide (except Canada) on Netflix on 3 January 2020. New cast members this season included Kiawenti:io Tarbell as Ka’kwet, Brandon Oakes as Aluk, Dana Jeffrey as Oqwatnuk, and Ashleigh Stewart as Winifred Rose. The ten episodes of the third season were written by Moira Walley-Beckett, Jane Maggs, Shernold Edwards, Tracey Deer, Naledi Jackson, Amanda Fahey, and Kathryn Borel, Jr. and directed by Anne Wheeler, Kim Nguyen, Norma Bailey, Paul Fox, and Amanda Tapping. Walley-Beckett is executive producer alongside Miranda de Pencier, Tina Grewal, Debra Hayward, and Alison Owen; Jane Maggs, Shernold Edwards, and Tracey Deer are co-executive producers; Tina Grewal is producer; Patricia Curmi is associate producer; Amanda Fahey is supervising producer; Kathryn Borel, Jr., and Naledi Jackson are co-producers. The titles of all ten episodes of the season are quotations from Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein.
On 25 November 2019, the morning after the first broadcast of third season finale of Anne with an “E” on CBC Television, series creator Moira Walley-Beckett announced on social media that the third season was, in fact, the last.
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Official Synopsis
Anne is a coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and numerous challenges, fights for love and acceptance and for her place in the world. The series centers on a young orphaned girl in the late 1890s, who, after an abusive childhood spent in orphanages and the homes of strangers, is mistakenly sent to live with an elderly spinster and her aging brother. Over time, 13-year-old Anne will transform their lives and eventually the small town in which they live with her unique spirit, fierce intellect and brilliant imagination.
Regular Cast
Amybeth McNulty as Anne Shirley-Cuthbert
Geraldine James as Marilla Cuthbert
R.H. Thomson as Matthew Cuthbert
Dalila Bela as Diana Barry
Lucas Jade Zumann as Gilbert Blythe
Aymeric Jett Montaz as Jerry Baynard
Corrine Koslo as Rachel Lynde (seasons 2–3; recurring, season 1)
Dalmar Abuzeid as Sebastian “Bash” Lacroix (seasons 2–3)
Cory Grüter-Andrew as Cole Mackenzie (seasons 2–3)
Joanna Douglas as Miss Stacy (season 3; guest, season 2)
Ashleigh Stewart as Winifred Rose (season 3)
Recurring Cast
Ella Jonas Farlinger as Prissy Andrews (seasons 1–2; guest, season 3)
Deborah Grover as Josephine Barry (seasons 2–3; guest, season 1)
Jonathan Holmes as Mr. William Barry
Jacob Horsley as Charlie Sloane
Dana Jeffrey as Oqwatnuk (season 3)
Helen Johns as Mrs. Eliza Barry
Christian Martyn as Billy Andrews
Kyla Matthews as Ruby Gillis
Miranda McKeon as Josie Pye
Araya Mengesha as Elijah Hanford (season 3; guest, season 2)
Melanie Nicholls-King as Hazel Lacroix (season 3)
Brandon Oakes as Aluk (season 3)
Lia Pappas-Kemps as Jane Andrews
Cara Ricketts as Mary Lacroix (seasons 2–3)
Kiawenti:io Tarbell as Ka’kwet (season 3)
Stephen Tracey as Mr. Phillips (seasons 1–2)
Jacob Ursomarzo as Moody Spurgeon
Glenna Walters as Tillie Boulter
Philip Williams as Thomas Lynde
Episodes
S1E01: Your Will Shall Decide Your Destiny
S1E02: I Am No Bird, and No Net Ensnares Me
S1E03: But What Is So Headstrong as Youth?
S1E04: An Inward Treasure Born
S1E05: Tightly Knotted to a Similar String
S1E06: Remorse Is the Poison of Life
S1E07: Wherever You Are Is My Home
S2E01: Youth Is the Season of Hope
S2E02: Signs Are Small Measurable Things, but Interpretations Are Illimitable
S2E03: The True Seeing Is Within
S2E04: The Painful Eagerness of Unfed Hope
S2E05: The Determining Acts of Her Life
S2E06: I Protest Against Any Absolute Conclusion
S2E07: Memory Has as Many Moods as the Temper
S2E08: Struggling Against the Perception of Facts
S2E09: What We Have Been Makes Us What We Are
S2E10: The Growing Good of the World
S3E01: A Secret Which I Desired to Divine
S3E02: There Is Something at Work in My Soul Which I Do Not Understand
S3E03: What Can Stop the Determined Heart
S3E04: A Hope of Meeting You in Another World
S3E05: I Am Fearless and Therefore Powerful
S3E06: The Summit of My Desires
S3E07: A Strong Effort of the Spirit of Good
S3E08: Great and Sudden Change
S3E09: A Dense and Frightful Darkness
S3E10: The Better Feeling of My Heart
DVD Releases
Anne: Season 1. Entertainment One, 2017.
Anne with an E: Season 2. Entertainment One, 2018.
Anne with an E: Season 3. Entertainment One, 2020.