Showrunner David Benioff says the show's brutal Cultural Revolution scenes were not intended to be a critique of cancel culture but notes that some parallels are "hard to ignore."
I read the first book and I’ve seen the first 6 episodes of the show.
It’s good. It cuts down on some of the nerdy math and science bits from the book while still hitting all the interesting plot points and the highlights. It changes quite a few characters and the city it takes place in (for the present day segments), but the meat of the book was the ideas, so it still works quite well IMO.
So far I’d say it’s good or very good, but not mind-blowingly great. A competent adaptation that takes some liberties but leaves the really good stuff the same.
I read the first book and I’ve seen the first 6 episodes of the show.
It’s good. It cuts down on some of the nerdy math and science bits from the book while still hitting all the interesting plot points and the highlights. It changes quite a few characters and the city it takes place in (for the present day segments), but the meat of the book was the ideas, so it still works quite well IMO.
So far I’d say it’s good or very good, but not mind-blowingly great. A competent adaptation that takes some liberties but leaves the really good stuff the same.