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Re: The Rise of Must-Read TV
- To: Heather Howard <http://www.gmail.com/~hhoward40>, Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
- Subject: Re: The Rise of Must-Read TV
- From: robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2021 08:03:21 -0700
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> From: Heather Howard <http://www.gmail.com/~hhoward40>
> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2021 01:23:07 -0600
>
> How your Netflix habit is changing contemporary fiction
> https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/07/tv-adaptations-fiction/619442/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
"...recently optioned novels such as 'Oryx and Crake'". Wow. That could
be great, if they pull off the humor and lightness of the novel (or
trilogy) and not make it heavy like "Handmaid's Tale".
"Like day-to-day life, TV is all middle". Yeah, I think this is true, and
also what makes it so compelling. In some sense, 'tho, many novels these
days are considered "all middle" -- authors keep adding "more story" in
the form of subsequent novels.
It interesting that Amazon and Netlix have become "publishers", and TV
and movie studios, all rolled into one. Don't know if this is bad or
good.