HI MADI!! how have you been? i see that you are also losing your mind over heated rivalry and I must know your thoughts
today is going to be a longgg travel day for me (gotta love flight delays 🙃) but that aside it’s been a pretty good past week—my best friend & i hosted our annual christmas party & it was super fun to see friends before everyone dispersed for the holidays :)
YEAH i was going to be super normal about it & the i had the free time to read the books, and now i’m both enjoying the show as just a fun little show AND a reallllly well done adaptation—imo it’s kinda a masterclass on how to remain faithful to the original text while adjusting for the contrasting strengths & limitations of tv shows vs. books. Also, the acting is just so good—everyone has killed it, but I feel like it’s so evident that Hudson and Connor both put a lot of work into really understanding Shane and Ilya (same with François and Robbie honestly—they had one episode and they made it COUNT).
and don’t get me wrong, episodes 1-4 are all so good! but episode 5 was SO. GOOD. the way they showed Shane & Ilya’s relationship deepening/becoming something more serious as they’re opening themselves up to emotional intimacy too??
(will be needing your thoughts as well 🫡🫡)