![]() ![]() ![]() Someone really needs to make this happen. Which is a very good thing, because if someone would merely get around to undertaking them, the Aubrey-Maturin novels could easily provide material for exquisite television, offering the action and world-building scale of Game of Thrones, the social anthropology (and Anglo-historical appeal) of Downton Abbey, and two central characters reminiscent of (though far more deeply etched than) Rust Cohle and Marty Hart in the first season of True Detective. But the televisual times have since changed immeasurably for the better on this side of the Atlantic, and now it’s easy to envision O’Brian’s books-which The Times Book Review has hailed as “the best historical novels ever written”-being adapted by any number of networks: HBO, obviously, but also AMC, FX, Netflix, USA … the list grows longer by the month. ![]() That was, of course, at a time when it almost went without saying that a project of such scope and pedigree would have to be British. A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life Arthur C. ![]()
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