There are episodes for each of her "friends": Neff, Kacy and Rachel. The attention to detail and accuracy is great, but should not come at the expense of interest. These are all basically the same story about how Anna used and abused people who thought she was a friend. It could easily have been three acts of a single episode, only, unfortunately it's the same story repeated over three episodes without much new, not really.
shareagreed. i just finished episode 6. Even though the last three episodes have been the best ones so far, my attention span is closing. I don't put too much credence into episode ratings, but so far my views have aligned with those on imdb. So I am not hopeful as the last three episodes are not rated as high. This should have been 3-5 episodes.
shareYeah, when they get to the actual trial it's a little better.
Thanks for posting!
This seems to be a common characteristic with Shondaland and limited series. e.g. Bridgerton. Ten episodes for a short novel? Lots of filler.
shareAh, interesting. Haven't watched Bridgerton.
Hmm, they say that there should be a general correspondence of one onscreen minute for each page of a novel. The first Bridgerton book has 433 pages -- at least per goodreads.com -- so I guess if it's 50 minutes per episode it should have been about 8 and half episodes. Checks out!
Hmmm, that’s around the same length as my copy of Pride and Prejudice. The 1995 adaptation is 5 hours, including scenes not in the book (bathing Darcy and wet shirt Darcy, lol).
I wonder which edition of The Duke and I you saw? My Goodreads app says 384. It looks like some editions have additional epilogues? (Never read it.)
Yeah, seems the page counts are all over the map
https://www.goodreads.com/work/editions/846763?utf8=%E2%9C%93&sort=num_ratings
I found the true story quite interesting and was looking forward to the series but tapped out in the middle of either episode 3 or 4. Just lost interest.
Instead of a multi-episode scripted series, I think a feature-length documentary would've been a much better idea.
I stayed until the end, but I agree, I wish it had been fewer episodes.
shareThat's an issue with a lot of "based on a true story" limited series and documentaries.
Maybe there's some economic reason they want to try to stretch things out so much. It's more cost efficient to squeeze a few more episodes out of a story.