Are you streaming ( or binge watching ) any series on Netflix, or any other service? Tell us about it.

[AutumnGal]

@AutumnGal, I saw the movie years ago, have watched the series and find all enjoyable. When movies turn into series the characters are tweaked some. Whaddygonna do? Artistic license.

I never read the books.

I suspect I would have liked both too. Lol.

I had a friend tell me she saw the movie. I never did and I told her the series is pretty darned good. She said she'd give it a try. Now perhaps she won't like it if she saw the movie first??

I never even knew about books until I read it here.

Where I left off last night had the biggest unimaginable twist for an atty I could never have even imagined as to ethics and what to do and he could not have seen it coming... I like twists, guessing and surprise. And it has such.

I actually get more upset when they take artistic license or make things up about true life things...

This is fiction.

Good to know you liked both. Now I want to find the movie but only when I finish the series and another season is on the way...

I do serious stuff all day so I like fiction at night.

 

[ChiroDoc]

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Pious? LOL. I think a lot of LA and this country could use a bit of that. And he was coming out of rehab and drug problems when the show started so not like he's pure. With more than one ex wife too.

It's fiction.

However, I get if maybe you saw something else on it where it might not hit you right. I didn't though. I'm liking it very much.

Heh, heh. I said "almost pious". Characters affect different folks in different ways. The series was written by David E. Kelly, based upon the novels by Michael Connelly. The Mickey Haller character was different from the books and movie-- I think to appeal to women, which it obviously does. Ditto Haller's pushy legal aide, played by Becky Newton.

It's a very watchable series, but to my taste it's lost some of its punch. Will I watch a new season? Sure, but it's always going to be inferior to the good novels.

 

[Jules]

Heh, heh. I said "almost pious". Characters affect different folks in different ways. The series was written by David E. Kelly, based upon the novels by Michael Connelly. The Mickey Haller character was different from the books and movie-- I think to appeal to women, which it obviously does. Ditto Haller's pushy legal aide, played by Becky Newton.

It's a very watchable series, but to my taste it's lost some of its punch. Will I watch a new season? Sure, but it's always going to be inferior to the good novels.

The books were superior to the series. Because I loved the books, I watch the series though I consider it fluffy. Lorna is ditzy.

 

[AutumnGal]

Heh, heh. I said "almost pious". Characters affect different folks in different ways. The series was written by David E. Kelly, based upon the novels by Michael Connelly. The Mickey Haller character was different from the books and movie-- I think to appeal to women, which it obviously does. Ditto Haller's pushy legal aide, played by Becky Newton.

It's a very watchable series, but to my taste it's lost some of its punch. Will I watch a new season? Sure, but it's always going to be inferior to the good novels.

I can understand that and I've felt that way about many a thing in the past. I'm seeing it though without having seen the movie or read the books. So I don't compare it or feel it lost anything as nothing was there prior for me as to characters or how well they are doing it. I just find it very entertaining.

However, I've watched many series that lose it as they go on and I'm not that far into it yet. Just starting season two out of four out so far. It has twists and turns and I like that in anything, and keeps a person guessing. I'm not into him in any crush way lol as to me being a female. I actually like his driver the most lol and who can't fall for the soon (at this point) to be motorcycle riding hub of his ex who also are both working for him...
I follow a lot of true stuff during the day and late night I like some fictional lighter entertaining stuff. And it's filling that for me at the moment.

I can understand however if one has read a book it doesn't match, or seen a movie it took off from that now had different characters, how one might not like something. I've had a lot of that in the past myself. In this case though, I'm not coming at it that way or disappointed because it's not as good as the books, etc. as I never saw any of them. To me, it's just something on its own and new to me. And I'm not looking for anything real deep, just entertaining. I follow deep during the day lol.

 

[AutumnGal]

The books were superior to the series. Because I loved the books, I watch the series though I consider it fluffy. Lorna is ditzy.

Lol. I only know Lorna from the series. Maybe I'll read the books after. I only know it as a series, never saw or read anything about it prior.

It probably goes over better with me as I've nothing prior I'm comparing it to. They are all new characters to me and it's a new series to me.

I have been disappointed in years past when even a movie doesn't match up in details, etc. to what a book was. So I get it if that's the case.