E Town

None of the rewrites to the book make any sense. Major points of the story are tied in to the screen adaptation like oddly placed window dressings. What truly bothers me is that they have change the character of Harriet. She is now casted as a black educated woman who no longer has the same role that she had in the novel. Harriet was a terrific character in the novel, and she took care of Mad while Elizabeth worked. Now we are supposed to believe Elizabeth loves her daughter dearly, but feels it’s okay to leave her alone for hours after school while she films Dinner at Six!!? And Six-thirty has been relegated to obscurity, yet he was a vital narrator and witness to Elizabeth's journey. In one episode he talks and then they drop it ... just like they oddly add in that Elizabeth is rowing, but they don’t tie in how instrumental it was to her development as a person ... I’m staying with it, and the show is growing on me ... but the novel was terrific, and I find it sad that integral elements of it are just dropped or changed for TV, and to check a few woke boxes.

I want to like it, I love the cast, but I simply can't. Rudd is great as a vile shrink, but his character has gone a bit too far for me. There's no comedy within this dark comedy, it is simply dark. And mean.

It's wonderfully casted, and is delightful and enchanting to watch.