The Lizzie Bennet Diaries

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries was a web series based on ’s , told through vlogs.
==Creators==
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries was created by Hank Green and , and produced by Jenni Powell.
==History==
The first episode was uploaded on April 9, 2012. When the series began, there were four characters on the channel. However, several other characters conversed on social media, expanding the story. These characters interacted with the audience, driving plot points for the main series. The 100th and final episode was uploaded on March 28, 2013.
In 2014, a DVD of the series was released thanks to Kickstarter funding.
==Plot==
The series is about Elizabeth Bennet (played by Ashley Clements), a twenty-four-year-old graduate student studying mass communications. She has a younger sister named Lydia and an older sister named Jane. Their mother wants all her daughters to get married. Elizabeth’s best friend, Charlotte Lu, shoots and edits Lizzie’s video diaries. At the start of the series, a rich medical student named “Bing Lee” moves in next door. He has a mysterious friend named “Darcy.” Lizzie meets Darcy at a wedding, and hates him, referring to him as an “infuriating douchebag.” However, she has chemistry with Bing. Jane begins dating Bing.
At VidCon, Charlotte and Lizzie run into childhood friend Ricky Collins, who now runs online media company "Collins and Collins," with the help of his wealthy patron Ms Catherine de Bourgh. He proposes Lizzie join him as a business partner, but she declines. Charlotte accepts the offer in her place. During this time Lydia starts her own vlog series.
While at a bar with Lydia, Lizzie meets swim coach George Wickham and begins seeing him. He reveals Darcy was a family friend who supposedly refused to give him a college fund he was promised, furthering Lizzie's poor opinion of the man. Lizzie quickly moves on when it becomes apparent George isn't that into her. Though their relationship had been going well, Bing suddenly leaves for L.A. without telling Jane. Lizzie assumes Darcy must have poisoned Bing's opinion of her sister.
Lizzie decides to spend her last semester shadowing at companies, starting with C&C. There she runs into Darcy, who's been asked to monitor the company by his aunt, Catherine. He confronts Lizzie and reveals he's in love with her. She furiously tells him she could never love him back, because of his rudeness and how he's hurt George and Jane, accidentally revealing the existence of the vlogs in the process. After watching them all, he gives her a letter explaining his side of things. He steered Bing away from Jane because he thought she was only being nice. George was given enough money to pay his full college tuition, but spent it all in one year and then became angry when Darcy refused to give him more.
Lydia misinterprets one of Lizzie's 21st birthday presents and storms off to Las Vegas for New Years, and eventually begins dating George Wickham.
Lizzie discovers the final company she's to visit, Pemberley Digital, belongs to Darcy. They begin spending time together, now on better terms, but their friendship is cut short when Lizzie has to rush home, having been informed of a website counting down to the release of a sex tape involving George and Lydia. Lizzie and Lydia haven't spoken since Christmas. When Lizzie confronts Lydia, it transpires Lydia didn't know about the website.
Jane urges Lizzie to watch all of Lydia's videos, after which Lizzie realizes Lydia isn't as shallow as she thought and that she doesn't really know her all that well. Lydia herself realizes she's been selfish and breaks down crying in Lizzie's arms and the two sisters reconcile. The day the sex-tape is meant to go live, the website disappears.
During her healing journey, Lydia discovers that Darcy has bought the company that owns the website and all rights to the video. Lizzie realizes she loves him, but thinks it's come too late. Bing returns to apologize; he discovered Lizzie's vlogs and saw how much Jane cared about him in them, and the two get back together. Darcy confesses to Lizzie that he still loves her, and the two finally get together. Lizzie decides what to do in her professional life, and stops vlogging so she can focus on living her life.
==Awards==
In September 2013, the series won an Emmy for Original Interactive Program. It won awards for Best Drama and Best Actress at the 2014 Streamys.
==Book==
The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet, written by Bernie Su and Kate Rorick, provides more character introspection, details about the Bennet household, including Lizzie's relationship with her father, untold stories from Netherfield, Lizzie's thoughts and fears about life after grad school and becoming an instant web celebrity. There is also an audiobook.
==Spin-offs==
===The Lydia Bennet===
The Lydia Bennet!! is about the youngest Bennet sister, as she is sent to live in the suburbs with her cousin Mary. It is directed by Bernie Su and written by Rachel Kiley.
===Maria of the Lu===
Maria Lu was a YouTube channel about Charlotte beginning her job at Collins & Collins. Her younger sister creates a video blog to record Charlotte's internship.
===Emma Approved===
Emma Approved is a modern re-telling of Jane Austen's . Emma Woodhouse is a confident and proud entrepreneur who, like the literary version, will believe she is an excellent matchmaker.
==Subscriber milestones==
*100,000 subscribers: October 30, 2012
==References==
Category:Comedy YouTubers
Category:Vlogging YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2006