I don't know why I waste my time doubting writers. When I see previews for new TV shows, I ask myself, "How are they going to make an entire show about that?" So of course when I saw commercials for NBC's miniseries The Slap, I asked myself the same thing. Curiosity got the best of me so I recorded last night's premier. Now I'm asking myself, why do I doubt writers? We are very creative human beings, we can make just about everything work.
The American version of The Slap is based upon Christo Tsiolkas' book by the same name. Christo is an Australian author with Greek heritage. The Slap was originally adapted for TV in Australia with a different cast. NBC's version has a great group of actors including Thandie Newton, Peter Sarsgaard, Brian Cox, and Uma Thurman.
The show starts out celebrating Hector's fortieth birthday at his house in Brooklyn. And while that seems simple enough, of course it's not. The house is full of family and friends with many different personalities and lots of issues between them. There's infidelity, jealousy, overbearing parents, and work related stress just to name a few. So when you throw in a spoiled home schooled little boy who is too old to still be breastfeeding and he is swinging a bat at the other kids, it's not going to be pretty. But it brings up the question, is it okay to discipline another person's child? What do you think?
The kid deserved to get slapped. But, seriously, very interesting premise and I'm intrigued. I want to see how this plays out.
ReplyDeleteI think he deserved it too. But I wouldn't want anyone who wasn't family doing that to my child. I haven't read the book so I'm going to keep watching to see how the writers play this out.
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