Does it get better? I’m still on the first episode and find it very slow. I want to stick with it because I love this genre.

Anonymous wrote:The kids in Flowers in the Attic were also very blonde.

What is your point?

I don’t understand how Harris finds her in the water with the pearls when he is at the hospital, right? Or did he escape the hospital to go home and then found her?

The kids in Flowers in the Attic were also very blonde.

Anonymous wrote:The lairs have the worst hair! The color and the hairstyles. I realize they are on their private family island and running around wild, but….

Yes! This actually bothered me a lot because in the novel, the physical characteristics of the Sinclairs was something emphasized over and over: their stereotypical blonde good looks kind of represented the fact that their patriarch expected them to have inherited certain personality traits as well as physical features, so Cady dying her hair black meant a lot. The blondeness was a trope, like the fairy tale imagery, and it was important to characterization and understanding the psychology of the Sinclair family. It was well done in the book. But in the series, Cady is not a chilly natural blonde, but a (badly) bleached brunette with brown eyes: the opposite of what a Sinclair would look like. She didn't look like her mom, as she did in the book, and she didn't look like a Sinclair. The cousins were also badly bleached, not natural Sinclair features. Weirdly, the moms/Tipper all looked the way they were supposed to based on the book, but their kids didn't even look related to them.

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how they could be so stupid/irresponsible

Right? It’s something that maybe a troubled much, much younger child would do, naively not thinking at all about the you-know-who, or the method of doing it, not to mention the dumbass motive. It was not plausible to me from this average and bored supposedly smart girl and friends, and basically rendered all the characters either not believable or on the level of full-blown psychopathic monsters.

Anonymous wrote:PP here, and where were the adult staff

Cady sent them home.

Anonymous wrote:I can't make it through the first episode. It seems like the whitest white show ever with 2 brown people in the mix. Who is who and why do the sisters look the same age as the parents?

Them being very white and blond is part of the plot. That’s why the girls have horrible dye jobs. The main issue is they are not great actresses, and the moms are cartoonish Cinderella stepsisters with no depth.

PP here, and where were the adult staff

I don't understand how they could be so stupid/irresponsible

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Anonymous wrote:The lairs have the worst hair! The color and the hairstyles. I realize they are on their private family island and running around wild, but….

They really do! I’m not sure who made those choices.

I fast forwarded a lot the first 3 episodes when not much was happening. I read the book so I felt like it would get better and wanted to see how they handled that.

To a PP, I don’t believe Gat’s name was Gatwick. Did they say that?

Yes, Gat’s name is Gatwick. It’s in the book and at some point in the tv series they say it.

Loved this book, and am saving the series to binge during my husband's next business trip (when I get to watch in peace)

Anonymous wrote:The lairs have the worst hair! The color and the hairstyles. I realize they are on their private family island and running around wild, but….

They really do! I’m not sure who made those choices.

I fast forwarded a lot the first 3 episodes when not much was happening. I read the book so I felt like it would get better and wanted to see how they handled that.

To a PP, I don’t believe Gat’s name was Gatwick. Did they say that?

Anonymous wrote:I can't make it through the first episode. It seems like the whitest white show ever with 2 brown people in the mix. Who is who and why do the sisters look the same age as the parents?

Same I'm still working it through the first show and the main character is really hard to look at. I mean she's pretty but her face looks just like a young Johnny Depp.

I can't make it through the first episode. It seems like the whitest white show ever with 2 brown people in the mix. Who is who and why do the sisters look the same age as the parents?