What did Bret Easton Ellis do to these writers?

Before we started this show, my sister said to me, "I like the concept but you can't trust Netflix," and I laughed because I thought she was being dramatic. Well. Am I the idiot or what. I've wasted hours and hours of my life on other things before and managed to walk away laughing about how much I like to torture myself with crap but this? I'm angry. None of this really matters and I have so many other things I should be worried about but this actually made me angry enough that I made an account for this review. I could be doing something constructive instead but since I've already wasted 8+ hours on this show, I might as well waste five more minutes.

Related to 'American Psycho' (both the novel and the movie) in neither plot nor substance, the only good thing about this show was the acting. I guess the ambience, as well. Really not sure what was worse between the nonsensical actions of the protagonists or that borderline criminal rendition of 'The House of the Rising Sun'. Like, I think they're really lucky that's a folk song and therefore has no single owner because otherwise, I'd be getting in touch with their descendents to suggest that they sue. Might suggest that Bret Easton Ellis sue them for what they did to his novel but I guess if he could be chill about what they did to his first novel, he'd be chill about this, too. But, like, I don't have to be.

Genuinely, someone who liked this show please let me know whether you've read that book and what you think this show had to do with the book it was supposedly adapting. If you're gonna say that it's about an (apparantly) attractive, (seemingly) successful guy killing women... damn near any show about a serial killer could be an adaptation of the book, then. For the love of God. The closest they came to the themes of the book was the Samantha character and even that was half baked at best and insulting at worst. I'm genuinely angry after watching this. I think I would've been less angry if they hadn't said it was an adaptation but by God, did anyone working on this even skim the book, let alone think about it critically?

Even if I'm to ignore that it's meant to be an adaptation, I have never encountered three more braindead protagonists in my life, and I'm almost mad they didn't end up dead. Except Mok Won. I would've been mad if Mok Won had died, even if she made the dumb mistake of giving those other two morons way too much grace to get their shit together. Seriously, how did they not all die?!

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