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Why Are Film Adaptations Never Really Like the Books?
We’ve all been there: After spending days devouring that novel we now consider a masterpiece for the ages, we learn that a movie adaptation is in the works. Quickly, we start imagining how satisfying it is going to feel to watch the characters we’ve pictured in our head enact our favorite story on the big screen, almost convinced that it will be greater than the book.
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Why Do We Love Medical Dramas So Much?
At first glance, the idea of a TV series that takes place in a hospital and follows doctors’ daily routines can feel quite unappealing. The list of the many reasons why including the raw and unattractive reality of what physicians really have to do, imminent deaths, the sight of blood (or worse), complex medical jargon, and so on… But despite those points that would, theoretically, make them an unpleasant and tedious...