All The LIght We Cannot See - Netflix

[SlightlyJaded]

Just finished the fourth and final episode.

LOVED the book. Wanted to LOVE the adaptation - it had such promise: stellar cast, strong creative producers and the trailer looked good.

I was pretty disappointed - anyone else watched it? I'd be interested to hear from people who hadn't read the book as perhaps it came across better as a stand alone thing?

Anyway. I'm pissed off that I didn't love it.

I read the book and had high hopes but gave up one episode in 🙈 then I read the reviews wondering if I was alone and saw everyone else thought it was rubbish as well so won’t be persevering!

I loved that book! Haven’t watched it yet

I loved it.

Oh no I had high hopes for this! I’ll give it a go regardless.

I didn't love the book and did not like the Netflix series.

But stellar cast??? Hugh Laurie was the only saving grace. The other main characters were poor

@Dipsomaniax Mark Ruffalo is usually really good. I thought he was unwatchably bad.

I thought casting two blind/partially sighted actors for the lead was also good casting.

Maybe not stellar - but promising.

What Certificate is this?

Any sex?

Zero sex and zero adult themes. Apart from the obvious - war.

One scene of aggressive interrogation that last a few seconds

Read the book and loved it, but the Tv adaptation was very poor. Didn't follow the plot, loads of it was missing and the ending was completely wrong.

Made for TV drivel.

I should have known when it was only 4 episodes long.

Poor

The book was great

The book is one of my favourite ever books and the audio book is wonderful. The plot of the Netfilex adaptation is almost NOTHING like the book at all, so much is missing or invented out of nowhere for dramatic effect.
Marie-laure and Werner are supposed to be early/ mid teens, basically still children really.
What do the Germans have german accents but the French all sound like they come from the home counties?
Ettienne is meant to be an eccentric recluse who barely interacts with anyone until he is forced to because of circumstances.
I'm only on epiosode 3 so far but I'm already expecting the ending to be awful!

Really odd that they went for British accents. Jarring. Gave up after 1.

I haven’t watched it yet. Loved the book so much! It’s very rare that an adaptation matches the standard of the book, tend to always be a bit disappointing.

Best adaptation book to film I've ever seen was The Help.

I think part of my issue with this is that I recently watched A Small Light on Disney plus and that was so amazing, and of course a true story (mostly) and I think if you’re going to watch something recent about this genre then that’s the one to go for. (Even though I enjoyed the book for this). If you haven’t seen it I’d 💯 recommend, just amazing.

I tried it. It's beyond awful, sadly. I don't recall the book being so melodramatic.

I quite enjoyed it, haven’t read the book. Yes the accents were bad, some of the acting awful but it was ok.

I've read the book and had high hopes, agree it was almost unwatchable. Even Hugh Laurie wasn't any good.

I wanted to love it so much but ended up playing cliche bingo. And I'm annoyed that they utterly butchered the ending.

I adore the book but very much disliked the adaptation. I switched it off after 30 mins, thought it was dreadful.

I loved the book and was really looking forward to it. I have done one episode. It's not the acting so much as the dialogue- everything is explained to the tiniest detail!

Only one episode to go so I will stick with it but it's so melodramatic and twee compared to the book, which was amazing. I thought Hugh Laurie was good but Mark Ruffalo, who is usually brilliant was quite frankly, crap. Warner is wooden and the ladies of the resistance, including Madam Manec are almost laughably bad. Such a shame.

"It is terrible. The acting is almost uniformly bad. The dialogue gets worse and worse (or if it’s Von Rumpel’s, vurse and vurse). All nuance is lost, all thought has been excised and it feels both drearily slow and stupidly rushed. Maybe this superficial, self-indulgent mess would have come over more favourably if war hadn’t just broken out again in the real world, but them’s the breaks."

... The Guardian. I have to agree.

I loved the book. I think I won't watch the tv adaptation based on this thread

How did it get to the screen? So stilted and poorly written (unlike the book).
Constant reference to 'the ocean' also really wound me up...sounds so American for a French setting.
I've given up on it