Anne with an E - Wikipedia

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Episodes[edit source]

Season		Episodes		Originally aired (Canada)		Netflix release date (international)
				First aired	Last aired
	1	7		March 19, 2017	April 30, 2017	May 12, 2017
	2	10		September 23, 2018	November 18, 2018	July 6, 2018
	3	10		September 22, 2019	November 24, 2019	January 3, 2020

Season 1 (2017)[edit source]

The first season was first aired on CBC on March 19, 2017. It premiered on Netflix on May 12, 2017. Titles of the season are quotes from Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre.
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1 1 "Your Will Shall Decide Your Destiny" Niki Caro Moira Walley-Beckett March 19, 2017
Thirteen-year-old Anne Shirley is a bright, imaginative orphan. The talkative girl is overjoyed when Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert, the aging siblings who own Green Gables farm, adopt her. Upon arriving, Anne discovers they expected a boy. While Matthew immediately likes the girl, Marilla is determined to send her back, but relents after glimpsing what Anne's life would be. She agrees to a one-week trial period. Anne is determined to show the Cuthberts her usefulness on the farm. When Marilla cannot find a brooch, she accuses Anne of stealing it. Anne denies taking it, but when Marilla threatens to send her away unless she confesses, Anne claims she lost it while playing with it outdoors. Marilla sends Anne back to the orphanage, but later discovers the brooch fell in-between the chair cushions. She sends Matthew after Anne, but he arrives at the train station too late.

2 2 "I Am No Bird, and No Net Ensnares Me" Helen Shaver Moira Walley-Beckett March 26, 2017
Plagued with memories of being bullied, Anne arrives at the orphanage. Meanwhile, Matthew tries to catch up with her. Marilla, worried and anxious at Green Gables, wants to follow them, but Mrs. Lynde convinces her to stay. Meanwhile, Anne has slept outside the orphanage and convinces a milkman to take her with him. When Matthew arrives at the orphanage, the matron says Anne has not returned. The milkman tells Matthew where to find Anne. They reunite at the train station where Anne recites poems for change. Anne is reluctant to return, but when Matthew calls her his daughter, she embraces him. Anne, Matthew, and Marilla attend a church picnic; Anne runs away after hearing the townspeople's hateful comments about her. Marilla finds her and asks for forgiveness. The Cuthberts ask Anne to take their last name by signing the family Bible, which she does excitedly.

3 3 "But What Is So Headstrong as Youth?" Sandra Goldbacher Moira Walley-Beckett April 2, 2017
Anne is excited to begin school and make friends, but is unprepared for the bullying that occurs when she does not fit in. Marilla too, tests new waters as she accepts an invitation to join a "Progressive Mothers" group. After watching Prissy Andrews in an intimate moment with their teacher, Anne naively suggest to her classmates they were having sex. Because of this Marilla is no longer invited to the "Progressive Mothers" meetings. Gilbert Blythe returns to school and tries to befriend Anne. Trying to catch her attention Gilbert pulls one of her braids and calls her "carrots", causing Anne to hit him over the head with her slate. After being chastised in front of the class, she leaves the classroom and arrives home crying in Marilla's arms saying she will no longer go back to school.
4 4 "An Inward Treasure is Born" David Evans Moira Walley-Beckett April 9, 2017
The Cuthberts worry about Anne's increasing isolation, as she continues to refuse to go to school. When her lies about going to school are later exposed, the minister suggests Anne to be educated at home and taught to be a good wife. After a fire at the Gillis house, Ruby stays with the Cuthberts and becomes friends with Anne. Anne eventually decides to return to school, experiencing the enthusiastic welcome she initially wished for.

5 5 "Tightly Knotted to a Similar String" Patricia Rozema Moira Walley-Beckett April 16, 2017
Anne must cope with the inevitability of womanhood when she gets her first period. At the same time, Marilla and Matthew acclimatize to parenthood and revisit moments of their youth through Anne.

6 6 "Remorse Is the Poison of Life" Paul Fox Moira Walley-Beckett April 23, 2017
When her little sister Minnie May becomes ill, Diana runs to Green Gables for help. Meanwhile, the Blythe farm sees change, as Marilla is reminded of what she gave up and Matthew receives some unsettling news.

7 7 "Wherever You Are Is My Home" Amanda Tapping Moira Walley-Beckett April 30, 2017
Facing a financial crisis, the Cuthberts vow to do whatever they can to save the farm. This teaches Anne the strength of friendship and love.

Season 2 (2018)[edit source]

The entire second season premiered on Netflix on July 6, 2018, before premiering on CBC on September 23, 2018.[5][6] Titles of the season are quotes from George Eliot, Middlemarch.
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8 1 "Youth is the Season of Hope" Helen Shaver Moira Walley-Beckett September 23, 2018
The Cuthberts' boarders stir excitement with a question: Could there be gold in Avonlea? Nate offers help to the residents of Avonlea in testing their soil for gold for $150 per property. Elsewhere, Gilbert makes a new friend at sea. Anne, Marilla, and Matthew make a trip to the beach.

9 2 "Signs are Small Measurable Things, but Interpretations are Illimitable" Paul Fox Shernold Edwards September 30, 2018
The steamer lands in Trinidad, bringing Bash face to face with his mother and his past. The Barrys get behind the gold rush, but Matthew and Marilla decide not to spend the $150 to have their land tested for gold.
10 3 "The True Seeing is Within" Ken Girotti Kathryn Borel, Jr. October 7, 2018
Anne goes with the Barrys to Charlottetown. There, she and Diana investigate the claims of gold in Avonlea, and are told by a journalist that a scam like this had happened in another part of Canada a few years ago, and claims of gold in Avonlea are also probably fake. Anne tries to warn the Barrys about this, but is sternly rebuffed. Mr. Barry gives all of the money to Nate, who now plans to leave with Dunlop. Anne warns Marilla about Nate and Mr. Dunlop, but the men overhear her and tie them up. They escape and notify Matthew of what has happened, and he along with his neighbors ride to try to catch them. Mr. Dunlop is caught, but Nate escapes with all the money.
11 4 "The Painful Eagerness of Unfed Hope" Anne Wheeler Jane Maggs October 14, 2018
Pretending she is Matthew, Anne writes letters to Jeannie to try to rekindle a romance. Matthew eventually finds out and tells Anne how hurt he is with what she has done, which devastates her. Matthew meets Jeannie in town and tells her of Anne's ruse, but that he wants to spend his remaining years raising Anne. Diana and Minnie May are being trained by their mother on how to be a lady, which causes tremendous tension in their household. A pregnant woman needs Gilbert's help to deliver her baby.
12 5 "The Determining Acts of Her Life" Norma Bailey Amanda Fahey October 21, 2018
A game of spin the bottle prompts burning questions about love and beauty. Anne and Cole bond over their differences as Gilbert makes his way back to Avonlea, bringing along Bash.
13 6 "I Protest Against Any Absolute Conclusion" Ken Girotti Naledi Jackson October 28, 2018
Anne faces the world with very short hair, after having ruined it trying to dye it. The town preps for its annual Christmas pantomime, and Anne is unexpectedly thrust into one of the lead roles at the last minute. Gilbert and Bash join the Cuthberts for Christmas dinner. A jealous Billy causes Cole to fall, who ends up breaking his wrist.
14 7 "Memory Has as Many Moods as The Temper" Anne Wheeler Jane Maggs November 4, 2018
Cole accompanies the girls to Aunt Josephine's for a lavish party filled with surprises. Back at home, Marilla begins having debilitating headaches, and worries that she will be a burden to Anne as her mother was to her.
15 8 "Struggling Against the Perception of Facts" Amanda Tapping Shernold Edwards November 11, 2018
Marilla sees an oculist, and is given new reading glasses. Bash encounters racism in Avonlea, and meets a woman in "The Bog," a nearby place where all the black people in the area seem to live. Marilla buys back a number of her family heirlooms that she sees displayed at a local pawn shop. After being told by Mr. Phillips that she cannot go to college after they are married, Prissy leaves him at the altar on their wedding day.
16 9 "What We Have Been Makes Us What We Are" Paul Fox Moira Walley-Beckett November 18, 2018
A brand-new teacher named Miss Stacy brings unconventional methods -- and a motorbike -- to Avonlea. Gilbert's plan to speed up his studies leaves Bash feeling lost. Anne is smitten with the new teacher because she feels Miss Stacy is a kindred spirit. The boys who have bullied Cole come upon his secret building in the woods and destroy it along with all his sculptures. Cole realizes that it is probably Billy, and comes back to school and gets into a fight with him. Anne is extremely upset and consumed with the trap set by Matthew to catch her beloved fox.
17 10 "The Growing Good of the World" Paul Fox Moira Walley-Beckett November 18, 2018
A town hall meeting is called to decide on the fate of Miss Stacy, but Anne and her friends demonstrate their love and need for her, and the town votes to keep Miss Stacy as the teacher for Avonlea. Aunt Josephine permits Cole to stay with her in Charlottetown. Bash and Mary marry.

Season 3 (2019)[edit source]

The third season was first aired on CBC on September 22, 2019. It premiered on Netflix on January 3, 2020. Titles of the season are quotes from Mary Shelley, Frankenstein.
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18 1 "A Secret Which I Desired to Divine" Anne Wheeler Moira Walley-Beckett September 22, 2019
As Anne’s sixteenth birthday approaches, she finds herself longing to know more about her lineage, which surprises and distresses Matthew and Marilla. Nevertheless, they agree to let her go back to the orphanage to learn more, as long as she is chaperoned. Mary and Bash have a baby girl, and Marilla comes over three times a week to help them out. Diana is upset that her parents will not let her study at Queens next year with the rest of her friends. Anne writes an article about a local Indian tribe, and becomes friends with one of the girls there.
19 2 "There is Something at Work in My Soul Which I Do Not Understand" Kim Nguyen Jane Maggs September 29, 2019
Anne's search takes her back to the orphanage, but they do not have records of her parents. Cole suggests they come back the following week and go the local church to see if they have any information on Anne's parents. Meanwhile, Elijah pays a visit to Avonlea, but resents that Mary has a new baby, and gets drunk. He later ends up leaving and steals some of Gilbert's valuables. Gilbert meets a woman named Winifred Rose.

20 3 "What Can Stop the Determined Heart" Anne Wheeler Shernold Edwards October 6, 2019
Mary is diagnosed with sepsis, and the doctor gives her only about 1-2 weeks to live. In response to this, the Avonlea community surprises Mary on Easter with a big party at the Barry residence.

21 4 "A Hope of Meeting You in Another World" Norma Bailey Tracey Deer October 13, 2019
Matthew permits Anne to continue her search for information about her birth parents, despite Marilla’s misgivings. While doing her research, Anne discovers that they did die when she was a baby, and that they were originally from Scotland. Following Mary's death, Bash tries to give her letter to Elijah but they end up getting in a fistfight. Ka’kwet is excited to be going to a Canadian school for Indians, but is very unhappy with the school's imperialist regime once she is there. Diana fakes an ankle injury to spend time away from her parents.

22 5 "I Am Fearless and Therefore Powerful" Paul Fox Naledi Jackson October 20, 2019
The school kids practice for the upcoming County Fair barn dance, bringing romantic anxieties to a head. The girls are plagued with fears about marriage and motherhood. Gilbert writes an obituary for Mary in the school newspaper. Jerry walks Diana home from school, and a potential romance begins.
23 6 "The Summit of My Desires" Norma Bailey Amanda Fahey October 27, 2019
Avonlea hosts the Island County Fair. Jerry and Diana become closer, while a jealous Anne lashes out at Gilbert when she sees him with Winifred Rose. Meanwhile, Billy besmirches the reputation of Josie.

24 7 "A Strong Effort of the Spirit of Good" Paul Fox Kathryn Borel, Jr November 3, 2019
Anne’s opinion article isn't received quite as she planned, and the town elders ban Anne from the newspaper, and direct them on what they can and can't write about. In protest, Anne organizes a protest with her friends claiming that they should have freedom of speech. Anne and Diana get into a fight with each other, and are no longer friends.

25 8 "Great and Sudden Change" Amanda Tapping Jane Maggs November 10, 2019
The town elders secretly burn down the school and take their printing press. Mrs. Lynde realizes that they did it, and threatens to tell everyone unless three more women are added to the town board. The students sit for the Queens entrance exams, including Diana, who is encouraged by Aunt Josephine to take it. Ka'kwet runs away from residential school and returns to her village. Bash's mother comes to Avonlea to help take care of the baby. Mr. Rose gives permission to Gilbert to marry his daughter, and intimates that he will help pay for his medical education in Paris. Before going forward with his proposal to Winifred, Gilbert speaks with Anne to see if she might want to be with him, but Anne is unsure what to do, and dismisses him. Diana and Anne make up and become friends again.

26 9 "A Dense and Frightful Darkness" Paul Fox Tracey Deer & Shernold Edwards November 17, 2019
The authorities come back to the Indian village and forcibly remove Ka'kwet and bring her back to school. Matthew and Anne journey with Ka'kwet's parents to bring Ka'kwet back. Anne writes down her feelings for Gilbert in a note, but the note is misplaced and Gilbert never reads it. Instead, he travels to Charlottetown to propose to Winifred. Bash and his mother argue about their differences. With her parents unable to gain access, Ka'kwet remains alone at her school.

27 10 "The Better Feeling of My Heart" Amanda Tapping Moira Walley-Beckett November 24, 2019
Most of the students pass their test for acceptance into Queen's College. Diana is also accepted, but it takes some time before her parents will permit her to attend. Gilbert ends up telling Winifred that he can't ask her to marry him, as he is in love with someone else. Meanwhile, Anne rips up a note without reading it where Gilbert professes his love to her. Marilla and Matthew discover information about Anne's parents. A reformed Elijah returns, and Bash and his mother eventually allow him to stay. Anne and Gilbert eventually find out about each other's feelings, share a kiss and promise to stay in touch while she is at Queen's College and he is at University of Toronto. In her first letter to Gilbert, Anne delightedly reports that her red hair is inherited from her mother.