The midwich cuckoo book5/31/2023 Unlike the awful remake of The Stand, which took decent horror material and spun that into whatever the heck that disastrous series was, The Midwich Cuckoos actually feels pretty tonally satisfying without completely butchering the story along the way. If you can go into this with a fresh mindset and see this as a completely different proposition to what we’ve seen before, then it’s far easier to slip into without harking back to what’s come before. Gone are the similar-looking blonde-haired kids and similar looking facial expressions and instead, we’ve got ordinary kids and a much more grounded feel.īut is The Midwich Cuckoos worth watching despite those changes? Having watched all 7 episodes, I’d have to say it absolutely is. Just to preface this review, there will be people who jump all over this series and immediately write it off, classing it as “woke”, pointing out that a multicultural cast changes the way these kids have been portrayed in the past. For film buffs, you may recognize this from the big screen adaptations of ‘Village of the Damned’ from 1960 and then again in 1995.īefore you throw this one out as another half-arsed remake/requel/sequel though, this TV adaptation is a very different beast altogether, despite sharing the same hallmarks that made those that have come before so enjoyable. The Midwich Cuckoos is another remake, adapted from the 1957 novel of the same name.
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