Matthews Brace For An Austen Mystery

Brace yourselves, Austenites: PBS’s “Pride & Prejudice”-inspired miniseries “Death Comes to Pemberley” will not feature any soaked shirts. But it will showcase “The Americans”‘ always swoonworthy Matthew Rhys, second from left, as the esteemed Fitzwilliam Darcy. The action in Pemberley—adapted from British author P.D. James’ best-seller—picks up six years after the events of Jane Austen’s classic novel 
and finds Lizzy Bennet’s better half reluctantly helping defend his troublemaking in-law George Wickham (Matthew Goode, restrained at right) after Wickham crashes an important event and confesses to committing the ultimate party foul: murder. “Pemberley” airs Oct. 26 and Nov. 2 on 
Masterpiece. PBS, of course.

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