Season 2 – His Dark Materials

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Jeff o @jeff_o27 Feb 5, 2025 What a great show!! See more ian h @MucheChops Jan 19, 2025 a darkly moody, brooding, chilling, moving & upsetting series, where charming characters encounter souring challenges, swirling deadly clouds, adventure, success, danger, death & heartbreak... See more Artin S @RT21505613 Oct 21, 2024 Beautiful build, while maintaining its magic. See more Angelo P @Pinho Jun 13, 2024 Great cast, good adaptation amazing directing. See more Istari D @Istari Jan 11, 2024 The serie goes on the right way. A lot of details, various levels of comprehension, amazing acting. Will his beeing interpreted in a great way and matches perfect with Lyra. See more puffinpillow @RT23374871 May 23, 2023 Read the books if you want the complex characters of the children that made the books shine, because the TV adaptation simplifies the children. The books were realist even while written from a child's point of view and therefore intriguing. The line between good and evil was blurred, lying counted as being clever sometimes, murder could be bravery, etc. The TV adaptation feels more "Disney". Lyra is not as intelligent as she is in the books, and Will is not as wise and mature. No, I don't need everything to be "exactly as it is in the books", but if it is an important element it should be there--in the books' world children are not dumb, innocent creatures, but thinking, learning, adapting humans, different from adults yes, but no less complex. This was not shown so well in the more "actiony" TV show. Also, god damn, the "strong independent woman" trope strikes again. In season 1 I was grateful "woke-ness" did not infect this fantasy adaptation too but I spoke too soon. *spoiler alert* Season 2 rewrites Mrs. Coulter as a more caring mother when in the books there was none of that scene with Lee Scoresby where she shows concern for Lyra, and in fact in the books when she learns that Lyra is Eve, she concludes she must DESTROY Lyra. Also, what was with that scene with Lord Boreal/Sir Charles Latrom where she laments being left a poor helpless widow by Asriel? In the books she equally CHEATED with Lord Asriel, despite already being married. Yes she is aware of her status as a woman within the Church but she never monologues/whines about it like she did in the TV show. BBC definitely simplified the fascinating, complex ?villain? that was Mrs. Coulter. See more Read all reviews

His Dark Materials — Season 2

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