How Netflix’s Anne of Green Gables Adaptation Shows a Darker Side of the Sunny Heroine

The new adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic Anne of Green Gables probes a darker side of the feisty heroine's story.

Starring Amybeth McNulty as the fiery, imaginative Anne Shirley, Anne With an E tells the tale of an orphan girl mistakenly sent to the fictional town of Avonlea to live with the aging siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert (who actually wanted to adopt a boy).