It’s difficult to believe that Miles Franklin’s wonderfully lively and rebellious novel My Brilliant Career is 125 years old: its prose crackles with life and energy, and the words leap off the page. There’s more erotica, a wilder tone and a more pronounced love triangle for Sybylla, played by Philippa Northeast. Photograph: Ian Routledge/NetflixMy Brilliant Career continues the now familiar technique, popularised in shows such as Dickinson and Bridgerton, of anachronistically throwing contemporary music into the mix. View image in fullscreen Genevieve O’Reilly as Helen Bossier and Northeast as Sybylla in My Brilliant Career. There’s a youthful energy and impishness to her performance that captures the spirit of the series at its most compelling.