Amazon's Picnic at Hanging Rock Miniseries is a Horror Story That Will Haunt You

The original article can be found here.

The main points of the article are:

It's an 'exquisite nightmare of a story, a horrifying mystery without explanation..'
The article discusses the original movie.
The original story is about men looking at women and not understanding anything about them. (I don't agree with this at all. Michael Albert do look at the girls as they start to move up the Rock. The rest of the male characters, including Michael's father, the carriage driver, the gardener and the police don't do any looking at all. Neither do they pay attention to the French teacher.)
The focus of the series is on 'women as they view themselves.'
The article goes on to say that the women are in a world 'which men leer at them, demand things of them and in which escape seems impossible.'
Their disappearance is 'equal parts shocking and liberating.'

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