Spoilers for Elite Season 1 & 2 We were all gathered at the back of the school, gathered in the same place where students every afternoon for the buses that would take them home. Except, now, we were no longer students. And the bus that we were waiting for would take us to graduation. In…
Category: Television
Normal People Review: Or How I Learned to Love Adaptations
I think I’ve always been somewhat ambivalent about adapting books for the screen. As a reader, you instinctively want a faithful recreation, one that takes those incorporeal images in your imagination and makes them real. And as a reader, you will be inevitably disappointed because the best adaptations are the ones that are utterly faithless….
Elite Season 2 Review: The Things We Do for Love
Spoilers for Elite Season 1 Another week, another season of Elite. And another season of Elite means another eight-hour mystery, another excuse to simultaneously revel in and abhor the lives of the absurdly rich. But a second season also means another opportunity to spoil what was once special, transform uniqueness into a tired echo. Any…
Elite Season 1 Review: Keep Your Enemies Close and Your Watches Closer
It took me two days to finish the first season of Elite. Which, to be honest, was really only thanks to some serious self-restraint. Having finished the first five episodes over the course of one frenzied day, I decided to leave the last three episodes for future enjoyment. The next day, I immediately watched all…