Wasted

About the show

A documentary film crew is shooting in the 19th century. Charlotte Brontë, no longer the author of Jane Eyre or the writer known by her pen name, Currer Bell, is being interviewed as Mrs. Arthur Nicholls, an ordinary vicar’s wife. Suddenly, Branwell, Emily, and Anne appear before Charlotte. Together with her siblings who have long since passed away, Charlotte returns to their childhood. In the bleak, old parsonage in Haworth, the children find companionship in books and magazines, creating their own worlds on paper. Before long, they dream of becoming artists and imagine a brilliant future beyond Haworth. But poverty, forbidden ambitions, and the prejudices they face as women leave them repeatedly frustrated and wounded… Now, beneath the illustrious name of “Brontë,” a story begins about the Brontës who were, first and foremost, simply ordinary people.