5 Comments

Well, that review makes it seem unutterably tedious. Never attribute something to depravity when sheer dullness and stupidity will do. Where, meanwhile, are the grownups -- you know, people whose imaginations have been formed by the great stories of the world, people who actually know what men and women are like, and how the battleground between good and evil runs through every human heart? People who could write On the Waterfront, or Requiem for a Heavyweight, or The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, or The Member of the Wedding, or Casablanca, or The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, or Shane ...

Expand full comment

I felt it better than I feared - not the original but nothing like as bad as it could have been.

Expand full comment

I'll just treasure the books even more. Let me also say that while I wish they would have continued with the Chronicles of Narnia saga, it's probably for the best that they stopped. Leave it to Hollywood to ruin a good story, totally desecrate it and make a Christian feel not only disappointed that he watched the film, but even somewhat embarrassed.

Expand full comment

While it wasn’t as bad as I expected, it comes across as a series written by committee. What’s interesting in the diversity box ticking exercise is which boxes are left unticked. For me these were the absence of Asians, and no white/white couples.

Expand full comment