Exciting news, sensitive bookish gals! There will be a TV adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's 1868 novel Little Women. Only one little problem. The CW's "hyper-stylized, gritty" adaptation resembles the original novel not a whit.
As Deadline describes it, "half-sisters Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy band together in order to survive the dystopic streets of Philadelphia and unravel a conspiracy that stretches far beyond anything they have ever imagined -- all while trying not to kill each other in the process." So ... Jo's notorious temper has a homicidal edge to it?
Unraveling a conspiracy?
Philadelphia?
Half-sisters?
WHAT IN THE WHAT?
What happened to Little Women? I don't even recognize this story. I'm not opposed to a modern-day update of the classic. Winona Ryder's 1994 film pretty much nailed the faithful adaptation. But I think they took this new concept a bit too far.
It's like someone pitched the adaptation to the network, and the CW was like, "We love it! But we've gotta make it relevant to millennials. And let's see if we can work zombies or vampires into it!" Ten brainstorm meetings later they came out with this Frankestein's monster of a concept that's no doubt got Louisa May Alcott spinning in her grave. And not with joy.
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Why even bother? Just ditch the whole Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy business and do a show about four half-sisters in a dystopian Philadelphia who have nothing whatsoever in common with four sisters struggling to make ends meet in Civil War–era Concord, Massachusetts.
I hate to think what they'll do with Laurie. Let me guess: He's the heroin-addict tattoo artist with a shop around the corner. And he has syphilis.
Can't wait! I'm putting on my white party gloves just for the occasion. Well, just one of them. My pair is stained with blood so I'm sharing a good pair with my sister. You know how it is -- so hard to keep white gloves clean in dystopian Philadelphia.
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