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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what did everyone think of the first episode? Having read the book, I enjoyed the first episode overall, although my husband was bored. I did think it was a bit slow. And the flashforward to the police interviews were too much and distracting, in a way it wasn't in the book. Still, I'm excited to see it played out.

I do wish they had kept it in Australia and I think it would've made more sense that everyone was so intense about "1st grade" - in America, people get mushy like that about kindergarten, not first grade.

It's interesting that the washington post gave it such a good review because the NYT review was not good at all. [/quote]

I read the book and agree, first episode was slow and should have stayed in Australia or switched the kids to kindergarten. [/quote]

Weren't the kids in kindergarten in the book? I know they were 5.[/quote]

Yeah, in the book the kids were 5/in kindergarten, which made more sense in a lot of ways. It makes more sense for there to be an orientation for all the incoming  kindergarteners than for all the first graders &, as the PP mentioned, parents are more likely to get "mushy" over their kids going to kindergarten than first grade so both Madeline being so emotional about her "babies" growing up & Renata (& presumably some of the other parents, particularly the fathers)   taking off of work in order to be there for both drop-off & pick-up seem more realistic if their kids are starting K instead of first grade. Also, the teacher explains that Amabella can't just say who hurt her because the kids don't know each other's names yet which, again, would make more sense if they were starting kindergarten instead of first grade.

I'm guessing the script writers made the kids first graders instead of kindergarteners as a means of explaining how the parents (except Jane, who is new) already knew each other & how there was already underlying tension between Madeline & Renata. In the book Madeline has a son named Fred who is a couple of years older than Chloe & it is mentioned early on that she & Renata already know each other because Fred & Renata's older child are also in the same class. Fred's character seems to have been written out of the tv version, though, so they probably aged Chloe & Amabella's class a year to make up for that.

As an aside, Abigail also seems to have been aged slightly. In the book, she is 14 but given that she has friends who drive & that Madeline wants to get her an SAT tutor, she is probably supposed to be more like 16 in the tv version. I wonder what (if any) purpose aging her character will serve?[/quote]

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