Netflix is ​​up against Jane Austen. Good luck.

Grab the smelling salts: A new Jane Austen movie has arrived.

Passions flare up around Friday's release of 'Persuasion', Netflix's first adaptation of a Jane Austen novel. Full of deep feelings and a favorite of hypervigilant Austen fans, the ruminating story is one of the author's most challenging novels to bring to the screen. Austen die-hards, suspicious of the platform that 'Bridgerton's' 19th-century cotton candy history has provided, are on high alert.