Ok so having finished the show now, if I was going to review this as a lover of 70s music and fashion and Fleetwood Mac I'd be giving it a 10/10. The whole atmosphere and aesthetic is perfect.
The costumes are incredible, with each character having their own unique style, I will be saving half of the outfits to my Pinterest for sure.
The music is also great, the songs are catchy and a particular shoutout to whoever wrote the guitar parts, if you'd told me that those parts were written by Lindsey Buckingham himself I'd have believed you.
However, as a fan of the book, I'm so disappointed. I'm usually very chilled about them making changes in adaptations. I get that you have to change things to make things fit for TV. And I will say that the casting was amazing, all the actors were fantastic and exactly how I'd imagined them in the book, a lot of things were taken word-for-word from the book and for the first 5 or 6 episodes I was absolutely loving the show!
But if felt to me like there was just a fundamental misunderstanding of the point of the book and that's what makes it fail as an adaptation for me. The book is a story about addiction that uses a romance as a metaphor for temptation, whereas the show is a generic romance plot about people who do drugs.
And the worst crime of all, what did they do to Camila?? Camila in the book is a stabilising force, a quiet strength that acts as the glue to keep everyone together where in the show they've turned her into a cheaply written jealous wife. Where is her trust for her husband? Where is her belief in Daisy? Where is the scene that acts as emotional climax of the book?? I'm so baffled by what they decided to do with this narrative. Can we have a do-over that does justice to the book's most interesting character please?
The costumes are incredible, with each character having their own unique style, I will be saving half of the outfits to my Pinterest for sure.
The music is also great, the songs are catchy and a particular shoutout to whoever wrote the guitar parts, if you'd told me that those parts were written by Lindsey Buckingham himself I'd have believed you.
However, as a fan of the book, I'm so disappointed. I'm usually very chilled about them making changes in adaptations. I get that you have to change things to make things fit for TV. And I will say that the casting was amazing, all the actors were fantastic and exactly how I'd imagined them in the book, a lot of things were taken word-for-word from the book and for the first 5 or 6 episodes I was absolutely loving the show!
But if felt to me like there was just a fundamental misunderstanding of the point of the book and that's what makes it fail as an adaptation for me. The book is a story about addiction that uses a romance as a metaphor for temptation, whereas the show is a generic romance plot about people who do drugs.
And the worst crime of all, what did they do to Camila?? Camila in the book is a stabilising force, a quiet strength that acts as the glue to keep everyone together where in the show they've turned her into a cheaply written jealous wife. Where is her trust for her husband? Where is her belief in Daisy? Where is the scene that acts as emotional climax of the book?? I'm so baffled by what they decided to do with this narrative. Can we have a do-over that does justice to the book's most interesting character please?