This is certainly different to the original material but then, sonwhat? A TV show is not a graphic novel. It feels like the writers and producers have leant into and remained true to what's really important - the source material's big ideas and deep themes.
It's interesting that so many reviewers have issues with Yorick's character, saying that he's whiney, unlikeable and not manly enough. That's kind of the point in both versions - that the world has changed utterly and inexplicably and the old iterations of gender types - masculinity and femininity - don't work any more. He spends the story learning what being a man means in this strange new world.
What some reviewers have criticised as the show's "soapy" elements strike me as the writers leaning into the emotional impact of half the mammalian population dying overnight, and not just being obsessed with action at all costs. The show is really a character study in an incredibly imaginative "what if" situation. If that means some scenes built on emotion rather than action, that feels real and is ok with me.
It's interesting that so many reviewers have issues with Yorick's character, saying that he's whiney, unlikeable and not manly enough. That's kind of the point in both versions - that the world has changed utterly and inexplicably and the old iterations of gender types - masculinity and femininity - don't work any more. He spends the story learning what being a man means in this strange new world.
What some reviewers have criticised as the show's "soapy" elements strike me as the writers leaning into the emotional impact of half the mammalian population dying overnight, and not just being obsessed with action at all costs. The show is really a character study in an incredibly imaginative "what if" situation. If that means some scenes built on emotion rather than action, that feels real and is ok with me.