Three key takeaways from the new Sense and Sensibility trailer.

Attention, Austen hive! We have an official release timeline for Georgia Oakley’s buzzy new Sense and Sensibility. This October, we’re riding again for the Dashwood sisters. Gather up ye petticoats and horses accordingly.

The first major adaptation of the novel since Ang Lee’s in 1995, the new S&S stars Daisy Edgar-Jones as the indomitable Elinor, and Esmé Creed-Miles as her sister Marianne. We also have Fiona Shaw flying in to eat the scenery.

Take a look at the new trailer, fresh to YouTube.

Some key takeaways. One: The lighting in this trailer (grainy, cool) calls up 2004’s Pride and Prejudice. Which makes this fan wonder if the rest of that film’s lightly gritty aesthetic is back on the menu. Which begs a larger question, really. Are naturalist Austen adaptations here to stay?

As compared to shinier entries—1995’s S&S, 1996’s P&P mini-series; the Bridgerton universe—Joe Wright’s take on Austenland caught both flack and favor for rendering the Bennets as obviously lower middle class. (Note the frayed hems, and those chickens wandering in and out of the house.) In this new S&S, the Dashwood family—rendered suddenly skint by the patriarch’s demise—likewise look a little rough around the edges. But suitably so.

The de-glossification of Austen may be bad news for costume designers. But it sure does help with the storytelling, re: economic stakes.

Takeaway two: this undeniably moody preview reminds us that Sense and Sensibility is a darker story than some of Austen’s lighter fare. Her first novel contains sharp writing on loss. And unlike the Bennets, the Dashwood girls’ troubles are not hypothetical. Those ladies are really out in the cold until they find husbands. And Oakley’s version seems to know this, vibe-wise.

As Radhika Seth in British Vogue theorized, “it seems likely that [the new film] will at least echo the gentle and melancholy spirit of its Ang Lee-helmed predecessor.”

And as for our stars? Takeaway three: As Elinor Dashwood, Daisy Edgar-Jones—who cut her teeth on Sally Rooney adaptations—is less effusive than the undimmable Emma Thompson. But it’s nice to see her playing someone so vibrant. The other sisters give lively; mother gives lost. Fiona Shaw gives everything, which is as it should be.

But judging from this amuse-bouche, jury is still out on the romantic leads. Everyone has big shoes to fill given Lee’s impeccably cast version, but Edward Ferrars and Herbert Nordrum (as George MacKay and Colonel Brandon, respectively) are currently trailing Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman to the altar.

My fingers are crossed for their wooing success, but only time will tell.