Created by David E. Kelley and starring Jeff Daniels, this slight adaptation of Tom Wolfe's era-defining book is permeated by bad choices
is a massive book, in more ways than one. A 742-page social novel with an iconoclastic Atlanta real estate mogul at its center,to research and write. When it was published, in 1998, Farrar, Straus & Giroux ordered a jaw-dropping initial print run ofSo it’s beyond strange that the first word that comes to mind to describe the new Netflix adaptation of. Yet the scant six episodes this team delivers feel superficial, disjointed, and ultimately pointless.
There are a few poorly incorporated subplots. Charlie’s conflicted in-house counsel, Roger White gets dragged into his Morehouse classmate, Atlanta mayor Wes Jordan’s , scheme to smear a right-wing opponent. A Black man named Conrad Hensley , the husband of Charlie’s assistant , gets arrested in a racially coded incident, and Roger is put on that case as well.
Most of these problems originate from the gut renovation Kelley performed on Wolfe’s book, resituating it in the present and writing out many elements that might cause controversy in 2024: a KKK rally, Roger’s “Too White” nickname, and most strikingly, an Atlanta on the verge of combusting over rumors that a Black athlete raped a white heiress.
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