The adaptation of the hit novel has the original “Gossip Girl” creators on its side, but the show’s anarchist mystery absorbs all of its talents in a fatal black cloud of smoke.
; and even a pretty damn good pilot episode that nimbly sets the show up for a riveting mystery. But throughout its eight-episode first season,is weighed down by its potential. The show unsuccessfully scrambles to keep its early promise from falling through its fingers, with a collection of truly unbelievable plot twists and hilariously hammy acting choices that pour gasoline all over an already raging flame.
A large part of this disconnect is likely due to the fact that this is an adaptation of a massive novel. Garth Risk Hallberg’s 2015 novel of the same name clocks in at a whopping 900-some pages, a fact thatcited as a hindrance to its quality. Its source material’s exorbitant length might be why the writers of the adaptation often lob several ideas into the air, forgetting to look at where they might land by the time the first season closes.
That’s a substantial offense, considering all of the talents liable to find themselves in the series’ rubble. Wonders manages to do a respectable job at elevating’s noxious revival of the manic pixie dream girl to something slightly more material. She may not imbue the character with much more depth than the script allows her, but she at least hooks the viewer with an unshakeable charisma, making for a believable point of obsession.
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