Netta Ulaby

You know, I'm going to start off, if you don't mind, by taking some issue.

I did not actually find it was particularly faithful in some ways.

I thought it was a very superficial, somewhat on-the-nose adaptation that did actually veer in some very important ways from the book.

First of all, the book isn't really long enough to...

to fill up four hours.

Jack Thorne has said, oh, it's perfect for television.

There's actually these really long stretches where not much happens.

They pad it out by taking us back into the backstories of the boys, which the book does not do.

They divert from the book in some really surprising ways.

Some very iconic moments in the book are...

very different, when the boys are rescued, when Piggy dies.

The sense of danger and dread that permeate the book, I found to be quite lacking.

I thought it was, Glenn, a somewhat Spielbergian adaptation.

I'm just going to say one thing before handing the conch over to Walter, which is, for me, one of the deepest examples of that is when the boys kill a pig.

And in the book, that is a horrific moment.

I'm still scarred by it from having read it when I was 13 years old.

It's also very sexualized in the book.

It's so sanitized in this adaptation.

There's something cleaned up about this version.

It lacks a kind of rawness and dreadfulness that I think made the book so powerful.