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His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Season 2 Episode 7 Æsahættr Olga Hughes December 31, 2020Episode spoilers and full book spoilers for The Subtle Knife. Æsahættr The crew behind His Dark Materials have always been...
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His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Season 2 Episode 5 The Scholar Olga Hughes December 12, 2020Episode Spoilers The Scholar Francesca Gardiner’s solo effort on The Scholar gave us a deeply fascinating insight into mother and...
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Season 2 Episode 4 ‘Tower of the Angels’ Olga Hughes December 4, 2020Episode 4 Spoilers Tower of the Angels I thought that the hope of seeing a great adaptation of His Dark...
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Season 2 Episode 3 ‘Theft’ Olga Hughes November 24, 2020Episode 3 Spoilers Theft The first few minutes of Theft is crammed with disparate story threads. The episode opens with...
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Season 2 Episode 2 ‘The Cave’ Olga Hughes November 19, 2020Episode 2 Spoilers The Cave When Will and Lyra’s stories were separate in Season One, the children seemed a little...
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Season 2 Episode 1 ‘City of Magpies’ Olga Hughes November 10, 2020Episode 1 Spoilers The City of Magpies Jack Thorne always allows his empathy to shine through in his writing. Over...
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Episode 8 Season Finale ‘Betrayal’ Olga Hughes December 29, 2019Episode 8 Spoilers Betrayal If there was one episode this season that was an almost perfect adaptation of the source...
His Dark Materials Book to Screen Analysis: Episode 7 ‘The Fight to the Death’ Olga Hughes December 21, 2019Episode 7 Spoilers The Fight to the Death There is no way of getting around the fact that, for book...
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