this is chaos magic, wanda.

..or How Not to Adapt a Book to TV Show.

I know I mentioned this show in a previous post, but now I'm on season 2 and I don't understand how people raved about this show.

It's understandable that SOME things are changed from book to show/movie, but they changed A LOT. For us Americans, the biggest difference right away is that it all takes places in the UK rather than in America. That's fine. It was easy to overcome.

However, in the book, Pip became bearable. In the show, she's 10x more annoying.

Stella Chapman and Ant Lowe didn't get to play who they were supposed to. Stanley isn't who he was. Pip has so much friction with characters when there wasn't none in the books. I think the ONLY thing I actually like is that Max Hastings's mother found out what her son did and urged him to turn himself in.

Am I the only one who enjoyed the books way more? I mean, I'm still on book 3, but I decided to start season 1 of the show..

..and it's terrible!

Pip was annoying in book 1, but that's typical for a teenager. But in the show, she's way worse! It's like she has her mind set on what the world and people are supposed to be like and if it goes against her views.. it's automatically wrong. She also seems whiny and ugh.

I'm so bummed. I wanted to like this show so bad because my niece wanted me to watch it, but it's hard to keep my attention focused on it.