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<i>Little Women</i> for the Instagram Generation

The new PBS adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic is a festival of flower crowns, artful bohemia, and Andrew Bird.
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It’s hard to describe the aesthetic of PBS’s new two-part miniseries other than to say it’s Louisa May Alcott by way of Blake Lively’s dearly departed . There are flowers and kittens and snow angels and rowboats and handmade paper chains and maple syrup in mason jars. It’s Masterpiecefor the Instagram generation, where sunbeams filter through snow-covered branches, meals are eaten on artfully mismatched china, every surface is adorned with velvet ribbons, and every scene is accompanied by Andrew

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