I didn’t grow up by the sea. It’s strange that it elicits nostalgia from me—I hadn’t even visited the East Coast until last summer. But it also makes a lot of sense: I spent a good portion of my childhood within books, and many days with Anne Shirley. It started[Read More…]
Hot Take
All book adaptations should be TV series.
By Charlotte Hayes, Staff Writer
For every second of Oppenheimer I enjoyed, I spent five thinking about just how long it was dragging on. I love movies and I love books, but I simply don’t think they’re a match. In nearly every movie adaptation, you end up with either one of two possible outcomes: Endless amounts of book material left on the cutting room floor, or over three-hour-long slogs that drag viewers through every last plot point, which is the case for Oppenheimer and it’s source material American Prometheus. It only seems logical to switch all adaptations to TV shows—their sequential format allows creators to relish in the small details without making audiences sit through more than an hour of material at a time.