![]() ![]() MI: I think Adele had crazy eyes too early in the series. SR: GOD, THAT MACALLAN JOKE! WTF! Minus points already in the first episode.īS: IS THAT WHAT FLIRTING IS? Did I not get the memo? Which I didn’t get at all when reading the novel.īS: Why must David be Scottish? That, “Oh, Macallan is from Scotland. As for Adele, she came off too cold and stuck up in the show. Louise’s best friend also gives her good advice here and isn’t as narcissistic as she is in the novel. ![]() She also wasn’t chubby as she’s described in the book. I don’t think we are meant to be hung up on their identity, but David’s Scottish accent REALLY threw me.ĪS: I definitely didn’t picture Louise as a Black lady. ![]() I can’t remember if Adele was meant to be brunette, but i imagined her to be blonde, and bubbly, and bright. But that probably says more about how these kinds of novels always have white blondes as their main characters. SR: I think it’s safe to say that none of us pictured a Black lead. Which is a shame given that I didn’t feel that way about the book. Other times, it just came across as corny. SR: That “door” line is one of the few times I felt the writing was good. She wants to go, and all she says is, “do you want the door open or closed?” It’s a simple and effective allusion to the state of their friendship. MI: There was a moment at the end when she just looks so heartbroken and disappointed. She gave really good advice to Louise and actually cared about her! Who cares about her dead parents? Rob’s motto is to live life with no guilt.ĪS: I want to talk about Louise’s best friend! In the book she was portrayed as this narcissistic girl, who cheats on her husband, and gave no shits about Louise. I love everything about you.” Then that’s when you realise that he literally loved her everything – her face, her body, her life, her fiancé, her house. I say “kinda, maybe, sorta” because let’s be fair, all of it was batshit crazy.īS: I think one of the last lines that Rob said to Adele before they did the body switch thingamajig encapsulated his feelings for her best. It was compelling enough that you can kinda, maybe, sorta understand why he would go to such lengths to retain it in his life. I believed in Rob’s craving for love, for a better life, and for attention. It was hard to not compare Adele to Rosamund Pike in Gone Girl. She also has my heart for bat shit obsessed, crazy and calculated, character/actress. There has been no other reveal of a crazy ass scheme I can think of that has been so chillingly and casually scary. You know who pulled off evil long term scheming the best? Our queen, Rosamund Pike, in Gone Girl. Reading the book I was like, “WAIT! WHAT?” Then I had to go back and look for all the signs I might have missed. In fact, I think one of the only pros of the series was that you had time to understand Rob’s motives. SR: I didn’t have issue with the sexual orientation reveal. The fact that he was attracted to David was supposed to be a gut punch at the end. I hate to be that person but I have to say: the book was better!Īunty Shrimp: Rob’s sexual orientation was too big of a reveal too early. ![]() The evil, long-term scheming was not as prominent in the show as it was in the book. In the book, Adele was always nagging at Louise to get her to quit smoking, but in the show, it was just a quick throwaway line of Louise saying, “oh yeah, I quit smoking.” That was all. Also, they had six whole episodes and so much time to share the many ways Adele helped Louise in terms of her physical health, but they didn’t make it clear as to why she did that. Whether or not you’d read the book.īS: I would say they were about 85% faithful? 90%? The one thing they didn’t do in the book was reveal Rob’s sexual orientation so early. MI: It was something that was revealed at the end, so it’s clearly something they wanted you to notice. I wonder if we would have caught on to that as quickly had we not read the book.īook Snob: I asked my fiancé if he had noticed it and he said, “no.” So I guess that’s something we caught only because we read the book? It’s either that, or he just isn’t all that observant. Slow Reader: Yes! That camera angle trick was great. I loved that they did with that subtle “view from over the shoulder” technique. One of the things I was looking forward to was how they’d portray the whole astral projection thing. Right down to the details of how things happened. Miss Ice: I would say the series was largely quite faithful to the book. This review was brought to you by Slow Reader, Book Snob, Miss Ice, and Aunty Shrimp. They requested that they be referred to using pseudonyms. We reached out to four of our readers, all of whom were fans of the novel, for their opinion on how the Netflix series fares in comparison to the book. ![]()
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