How To Adapt Books For Television

psyyyyych! (i’m bring that back, in case i didn’t tell you) i don’t know how to adapt books into tv shows, but that’s okay, neither does anyone else!

i’ll start with exhibit a: sex and the city

 

i’m actually not even qualified to determine how legit the transference of SATC is from book to tv to movie, mostly because the only reason i watch sex and the city is because one night i was watching 48 hours mystery and accidentally slipped onto my tv remote (save for another post). low and behold, sex and the city was on and i couldn’t stop watching it. i used to not be able to stand sjp ( sara jessica parker. i’m trendy like that) except for in failure to launch (again,save for another post and don’t judge) and considered myself to be the last person to watch this show. but now i can’t stop, i even downloaded the first season and have a season pass on my tivo.

i digress.

but now, the real reason i am writing this post:

exhibit b: gossip girl

i don’t think this really even counts as a book to tv adaptation. because i’m pretty sure all they did was read the first book while they where drunk at a a christmas party and then locked it away in a company desk. let’s be for real here for anyone who has read the book(s):

 

1. chuck and blair?!? for real?
2. chuck is straight?!?!?!?!? again, for real??
3. vanessa? where are her doc martens? her shaved head? her dgaf attitude???
4. jenny? where is her curly brown hair? her strange height? where are her unnaturally large breasts?
5. and where is chuck’s pet monkey, cupcake???

WHY?!?! at least bring back cupcake, that devious little monkey. i honestly don’t even care about everything else, just give me cupcake. and don’t even get me started on rufus. or aaron rose, he’s supposed to have dreads and smoke herbal cigs, instead he’s a douchey swinger.

what did i do to deserve this?

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