It was the only part of a lockdown where we were lucky enough to be safe in a quiet, green neighbourhood that was truly disorienting — until an unlikely saviour popped up via online streaming television. Netflix, Hulu, HBO, Amazon Prime and other streaming channels have leaned heavily on book adaptations, but most of these are familiar — either old classics such as LM Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables or Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, or newer bestsellers such as Sally Rooney’s Normal People. This time, straying into the wide and gloriously tempting world of adaptations in languages beyond English, TV serials led me to genres I might never have explored on my own. Read More...
It was the only part of a lockdown where we were lucky enough to be safe in a quiet, green neighbourhood that was truly disorienting — until an unlikely saviour popped up via online streaming television. Netflix, Hulu, HBO, Amazon Prime and other streaming channels have leaned heavily on book adaptations, but most of these are familiar — either old classics such as LM Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables or Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, or newer bestsellers such as Sally Rooney’s Normal People. This time, straying into the wide and gloriously tempting world of adaptations in languages beyond English, TV serials led me to genres I might never have explored on my own.
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