Netflix shares very hand-centric teaser for Pride And Prejudice series

The limited series adaptation of the Jane Austen classic comes to the streamer this fall.

By Drew Gillis  |  February 24, 2026 | 10:53am
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Netflix shares very hand-centric teaser for Pride And Prejudice series

In the 2005 adaptation of Pride And Prejudice starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen, there’s a famous “hand scene,” when Mr. Darcy exasperatedly flexes his fingers after an interaction with Elizabeth Bennet. With Netflix’s adaptation on the way, the streamer knows what people want, and, accordingly, has released a teaser with four different brief shots centered on hands. 

Netflix’s Pride And Prejudice teaser doesn’t reveal much about the adaptation’s plot, but it doesn’t really need to—the book is over 200 years old, after all, and has been adapted many times. We do get a pretty good look at Emma Corrin’s Elizabeth Bennet, but otherwise we see hands touching a letter, feeling the spine of a book, fidgeting with rocks, grasping for rocks. 

This version of Pride And Prejudice will be a six-part limited series, which Netflix promises will be a “faithful, classic adaptation of the novel.” The series features a fairly large cast that will include Jack Lowden as Mr. Darcy, Olivia Colman as Mrs. Bennet, and Rufus Sewell as Mr. Bennet. Dolly Alderton, best known for her autobiography and its screen adaptation Everything I Know About Love, writes the series with Heartstopper director Euros Lyn at the helm. Pride And Prejudice is scheduled to debut on Netflix this fall. 

 
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