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His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Season 2 Episode 1 ‘City of Magpies’

Olga Hughes November 10, 2020

Episode 1 Spoilers The City of Magpies Jack Thorne always allows his empathy to shine through in his writing. Over...

Olga Hughes November 5, 2020

Back in 2018, when it was announced that the new adaptation of Jane Austen’s unfinished novel Sanditon would be penned...

Olga Hughes October 31, 2020

Recently I saw a meme aimed at history nerds making fun of ‘social justice warriors’. I’ll laugh all day long...

Olga Hughes December 29, 2019

Episode 8 Spoilers Betrayal If there was one episode this season that was an almost perfect adaptation of the source...

Olga Hughes December 21, 2019

Episode 7 Spoilers The Fight to the Death There is no way of getting around the fact that, for book...

Olga Hughes December 11, 2019

Episode Six Spoilers The Daemon-Cages Philip Pullman once said that “There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult...

Olga Hughes December 5, 2019

Episode 5 Spoilers The Lost Boy Who is the ‘lost boy’? Titled for chapter twelve of Northern Lights, in which...

Olga Hughes November 27, 2019

Episode Four Spoilers Armour We’re now four episodes in, and Armour revealed some small flaws in the thus-far polished veneer...

Olga Hughes November 24, 2019

The Gyptians of Philip Pullman’s ‘Brytain’ and the wider world were introduced in the first episode of His Dark Materials...

Olga Hughes November 20, 2019

Episode Three Spoilers The Spies For an episode that took place over a handful of days in even fewer locations,...