TV is getting bigger and better than ever. In the age of streaming, blockbuster movies can sit alongside TV miniseries on the same service, and stars often hop between the mediums. But that escalation isn’t totally positive: as the prestige of TV expands, so do budgets and ambitions.
A controversial director with a litany of proven films is perpetuating this with one of the most ambitious projects in recent years — an adaptation of a masterpiece of Hollywood’s Golden Age. But is it a new take on an old story, or just another remake that doesn’t reach the heights of the original?
