Notes on 'My Lady Jane' Season 1 Episode 3: "With a Girl Like You"
On My Lady Jane's quest to rewrite history, figurative and literal daggers, and saying "Fuck that!"
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First and foremost, I want to thank everyone who has read my letters about My Lady Jane’s series premiere and “Wild Thing.” The response has been amazing and unexpected. I hope you enjoy this one (and all the rest), too!
Written by Shepard Boucher, Gemma Burgess, and Meredith Glynn and directed by Jamie Babbit, My Lady Jane Season 1 Episode 3, “With a Girl Like You,” breathes more life into the already vibrant characters and their world. It can do so easily because the show knows what it is and who it’s for from the beginning.
“I’m so proud the creators of this show had such a clear vision. It is so unique that I think a lot of people didn’t know what to do with it. I’m so proud that we managed to execute something that is exactly what we wanted to do. It’s so hard not to compromise, especially when you’re dealing with revisionist history and a female protagonist. But with this dark sardonic and sarcastic humor, it’s hard not to have to sacrifice some things. I think that the project holds to what we wanted.” - Emily Bader for Rose and Ivy
My Lady Jane moves confidently, knowing it will find its audience, and based on the number of TikTok fan edits, it has. Co-showrunner and executive producer Gemma Burgess called audiences “sophisticated now” and credited them for understanding genres so that My Lady Jane can “gleefully” subvert them.
The show’s success is also possible because the women at the helm know people yearn for diverse, fun, life-affirming, and romantic stories. So, it tracks that Babbit shared that My Lady Jane pulls inspiration from Bridgerton as Shonda Rhimes “really showed that shows about women, and for women, have a huge audience.”