Welcome back, welcome if you are new, to Thursday Movie Picks, the wonderful series hosted by Wandering Through the Shelves. This being the last Thursday of the month, we are picking TV series, specifically those adapted from a book.
Orange is the New Black (2013- )
It follows Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), a rich woman in her 30s, as she serves a sentence of a year and a half for transporting drug money to an ex-girlfriend (Laura Prepon). I still haven't read Piper Kerman's memoir but I love this show. It's not as good as it used to be and they killed one of my favourite characters but I still love this. Damn, I named my PokemonGO account after this.
The Handmaid's Tale (2017- )
Set in a dystopian future ruled by a fundamentalist regime, it follows June/Offred (Elizabeth Moss), one of the few remaining fertile women who is forced to live as a concubine. I really liked the book by Margaret Atwood but, although I still haven't finished this because I keep starting new stuff, the show is even better. The atmosphere is fantastic, but it's the acting, especially Moss's, that won me over.
Sharp Objects (2018)
A reporter (Amy Adams) returns to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls and she ends up confronting the demons from her past. I still haven't read Gillian Flynn's novel but Jean Marce-Vallee and Amy Adams really did an outstanding job as the main character is just as fleshed out like any other female character Flynn has written.
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