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It doesn’t care so much about Lena as it does the Entire Dystopian World that was very much an out-of-focus backdrop in the novel.
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Rather than concerning itself with the fate of society as a whole, it’s the tale of one girl’s journey from passive compliance to following her heart, and that narrative is told exclusively through Lena’s interactions with the boy she meets (Alex), her best friend (Hana), and her family.ĭelirium the TV show is aiming for something grander. But there are certainly several issues that prove exactly how ill-conceived this premise was-and how thoroughly the creative team did not understand and/or appreciate the material that they were working with.ĭelirium the novel is a refreshingly intimate story, particularly given the high stakes and armies of other YA dystopias. I can’t give you an exhaustive breakdown of everything wrong with it because the problems are so extensive that the writers would have been better off burning the entire script and starting again from the ground up.
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Given the absolutely garbage record YA books have for becoming decent films, I have no doubt a Delirium movie would probably have stunk to all hell at least this way all we got was a crappy pilot that received little to no exposure.Īnd what a crappy pilot it is. At any rate, even if the “ Delirium as a TV series” pitch was ridiculously misguided, it probably ended up being a blessing. Maybe, since dystopian book snobs treated Delirium as the poor man’s version of The Hunger Games or Divergent, it was considered fitting that it should get the sadder, smaller option of a TV series.
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In fact, with the exception of maybe The 100, I can’t think of any dystopian series from the early-2010s “boom” that became a television series: The Handmaid’s Tale took that route in 2017, and was probably inspired to do so by the “boom” a few years prior, but neither the novel nor the TV series can really be considered YA. Most YA dystopias at that time took the “big screen or bust” route ( The Hunger Games, Divergent, The Maze Runner, The Giver, The 5th Wave, Ender’s Game). Let me tell you: Fox did us a tremendous favor.īefore I get into the many, many ways the Delirium pilot failed, I want to point out how strange it is that the book was pitched for TV in the first place.
And, now, almost 10 years later, I finally tracked down and watched the doomed Delirium pilot.
As an avid fan of the novel, I was skeptical from the moment the book’s potential TV future was announced as more production details were released, that skepticism turned to dread when the pilot was turned down, I breathed a sigh of relief.
(See the horrendous treatment of The Giver.) Such was the case for Delirium, which was optioned for a TV series in 2013, only to have its pilot rejected by Fox. Some of this was inevitably because the source material was not that great to begin with but others were doomed courtesy of the Hunger Games approach to dystopia, where executives apparently thought that any successful YA dystopian movie had to have nonstop action and drama rather than anything intellectual or introspective. It probably goes without saying that none of the dystopian books from this period (save The Hunger Games) received good screen adaptations. I’m not a fan of faces on my covers in general (this girl isn’t the Lena in my head), and the model on this cover looks distractingly like Keira Knightley. The paperback cover, which I like even less than the original.
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