Rational Creatures is a Web Video Setting Update adaptation of Literature/Persuasion.
After losing her job at her father's company, Ana Elías moves in with her sister Marisol and her wife Charlie. Unbeknownst to her, their downstairs neighbor is Sophie Wentworth - sister of Ana's high school boyfriend and successful travel writer Fred Wentworth.
When Fred Wentworth comes to stay with his sister, Ana is forced to confront her lingering feelings for him. And that's before Fred meets and rapidly grows close to Louis, Charlie's brother who idolises Fred...
This show contains examples of:
- Adaptational Diversity
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Mary in the book is a whiny, self-absorbed hypochondriac who takes advantage of Anne's kindness. Marisol is a supportive sister to Ana and is rightly angry that their dad walks all over her. She's also a wlw living with diabetes, and she gets in a jab at people not understanding that chronic illness is chronic. In the words of one commenter, "no way I'll hate her so much as in the book, she and and Charlie look so cute".
- Race Lift: The Elliott family become the Elías family. Ana's father mentions that he grew up in Argentina in the first episode.
