I had this post bookmarked to comment, and then somehow never did, but I approve of more open thread prompting posts, and this is a good topic!
I really loved both the book and TV series of Daisy Jones, but I can see how the book would leave you cold. The style just mimicked those deep dive, self-important music journal interviews so well that it carried me along.
Other adaptations that I've enjoyed:
I love both the book and TV series of Interview with the Vampire — at first the jump forward in time annoyed me (since it seemed like a cynical decision: a lazy way for the writers to sidestep the issue of their characters being in New Orleans during the time of slavery), but as the series went on, I came to appreciate it as its own separate thing. I'm not sure I'd recommend one over the other, but I would certainly recommend the TV series without insisting that people read the book first.
By all accounts, the TV series of The Terror is a vast improvement on the book (which I haven't read).
And I've not read the books (it's a massive multibook mystery series), but my husband has, and based on what he's told me, the TV adaptation of Babylon Berlin is a massive step up from the source material. This is a crime series set in the dying years of the Weimar Republic, in Berlin, and the two main characters are police officers grappling with the conflict between their own individual ethics and sense of justice, and the murky political compromises that they're required to make for the sake of expediency. They're also struggling to deal with the inexorable rise of fascism without properly understanding the scale of the threat (since they are living in late 1920s Berlin as opposed to viewing things with our decades of hindsight). In the TV show, the female character is an aspiring police officer; in the books she has much more limited professional aspirations. In the books, the main male character is apolitical and somewhat apathetic, whereas in the show he has strong ethical lines he won't cross, and views the Nazis he encounters with increasing horror.
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Date: 2024-11-01 05:50 pm (UTC)I really loved both the book and TV series of Daisy Jones, but I can see how the book would leave you cold. The style just mimicked those deep dive, self-important music journal interviews so well that it carried me along.
Other adaptations that I've enjoyed:
I love both the book and TV series of Interview with the Vampire — at first the jump forward in time annoyed me (since it seemed like a cynical decision: a lazy way for the writers to sidestep the issue of their characters being in New Orleans during the time of slavery), but as the series went on, I came to appreciate it as its own separate thing. I'm not sure I'd recommend one over the other, but I would certainly recommend the TV series without insisting that people read the book first.
By all accounts, the TV series of The Terror is a vast improvement on the book (which I haven't read).
And I've not read the books (it's a massive multibook mystery series), but my husband has, and based on what he's told me, the TV adaptation of Babylon Berlin is a massive step up from the source material. This is a crime series set in the dying years of the Weimar Republic, in Berlin, and the two main characters are police officers grappling with the conflict between their own individual ethics and sense of justice, and the murky political compromises that they're required to make for the sake of expediency. They're also struggling to deal with the inexorable rise of fascism without properly understanding the scale of the threat (since they are living in late 1920s Berlin as opposed to viewing things with our decades of hindsight). In the TV show, the female character is an aspiring police officer; in the books she has much more limited professional aspirations. In the books, the main male character is apolitical and somewhat apathetic, whereas in the show he has strong ethical lines he won't cross, and views the Nazis he encounters with increasing horror.