S03.E03: What Can Stop the Determined Heart - Anne With An E [V]

I binged the season this weekend, and this episode absolutely broke my heart. How horrible that Mary's own horrible son was even the inadvertent cause of her death.

The final Easter celebration was a little too sweet and kind for realism, maybe, but I admit that it really moved me. 

One thing I liked about this episode and Mary's story, however, was the way big things push the small ones aside. Once Mary's illness and death were imminent, I could believe that people would see how stupid their prejudices were, especially with this sweet beautiful woman right there in front of them. The writing and acting did a great job of conveying the ways in which death moved, scared, and ennobled the townspeople, and I really liked that.

I love Anne's friendship with her friend from the native village, and find it very very Anne-like.

Also, I would have watched an entire episode of Matthew just walking around with the baby. And I'm not even, like, a person who likes babies. But I swear to God, my shriveled heart grew three sizes when he was introducing her to the farm and the animals.

Last but not least, the episode ending with that soft metaphorical bittersweetness, with Mary's face looking up into the sunlit sky above, was really stunning, and moved me to tears.

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