Amazon's Picnic at Hanging Rock Suggests That Sometimes Less is More

The original article can be found here.

The main points of the article are:

Amazon's version feels 'at odds with its source material.'
It goes into the major characters and differences from the original story.
A lot of screentime deals with Mrs. Appleyard's past.
In the Amazon version, 'motivations, histories and relationships are...repeated to the point of redundancy.' The series basically over-explains things.
When Mrs. Appleyard snaps in the series we 'see it coming from a mile away.'
The mini-series is 'at war with itself.'
The original story is defined 'by lack, not presence, suggestion, not fact.'

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