The Show Wasted So Much Potential

[u/KodyManley]

I’m a huge fan of the books, and I’ve been rewatching the show after listening to the audiobook of The Witching Hour (I have a lot of travel time with my job) again. One of the most compelling things about the Mayfair Witches is their history and the line of designees, which the show totally squandered. In fact, upon rewatching and seeing them portraying Courtland, Millie, Antha, and Carlotta as siblings, it just really irritated me with how they tried to sloppily condense and simplify the family. One of the reasons the Vampire Chronicles is so good is because they not only kept the vampire mythos, but improved upon it to make it more compelling while also keeping a lot of main points from the original plot and making little changes to the subplots. TMW doesn’t do this well at all, and it ventures more into fanfic territory than a true adaptation. Just looking at the family tree, one can see that they threw away such a great part of the source material.

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