tier ranking every book to tv show adaptation i've seen 📺

it was detrimental to me personally every time  I watch it I feel like I'm being stabbed in my eyes hello everyone welcome so I know it's been  a little bit I have had to take a bit of a break because of some stuff going on in my personal life  and so I have not been able to be online like at all for quite some time now like over a month it's  been a minute since I've sat down to film anything and I just feel weird even having makeup on right  now because I've just been gremlining for the past m

onth but I am back I am here with a new video  for you all today and I'm really excited because today we are going to be doing one of my favorite  things which is tier ranking I love a good tier ranking and we are specifically going to be tier  ranking book to TV adaptations I did a video like this a couple of years ago tier ranking book to  movie adaptations and I think I also had a few book to TV adaptations in there as well but in the  past few years there have been a lot of new book to TV ad

aptations that have come out I think it's  gotten more popular than book to movie adaptations not necessarily more popular but there are a  lot more TV adaptations than there used to be which is extremely exciting because it means that  I can make a video specific to TV adaptations and rank all of the ones that I've seen because there  are some recent ones that came out that a lot of people have been asking my opinion on and I  haven't had a place to talk about them yet so I think this will be t

he perfect place to do that  I've been watching a lot of TV lately because I've been stuck at home and I've wanted to do something  kind of more passive I haven't had any energy to read I haven't read a book in like over a month  I just finished succession which was fantastic literally one of my new favorite shows of all time  that show is excellent so I've just been thinking a lot about TV which is kind of what inspired me  to do this video today I've also had TV shows on my mind a lot recently

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deo but without any further Ado let's get into tier ranking all of the book  to TV adaptations I have seen okay so here we go this is my tier list as you can see there are far  fewer tiers than I usually have I usually have a ton of Tears because I like separating things out  I feel like there's a lot of nuance even when I rank things and we're really simplifying it here  I like having the Nuance of having lots of Tears also partially because I have not seen that  many book to show adaptations t

here are quite a few it's just I haven't read all of the books  for a lot of them so that's why this list can't be as long as the movie adaptation one that I've  made so we're going with like a smaller list but I feel like it's still a good pool I have a lot  to say about most of these so the qualifications for this were that I have to have watched the  entire show and also read the entire book slash book series except there's just like two caveats  in here there's one where I have not read the

book and when we get to it I'll explain why I'm  deciding to put it on this list and another one where the show is technically not based on one  specific book but just like a series so it's kind of like a spin-off type of thing so those are the  only two that are not as you know just a direct adaptation or the one where I haven't read the  book but besides that I've read the book for all of these and I've watched pretty much the entire  show for all of them I gave up on a couple of them because

like I didn't like them but besides that  it's fine anyway long-winded explanation aside let's get into the tears so first on the top  tier the god tier we have better than the book self-explanatory then we have book handshake show  so basically the book and the show are equally as good in my opinion then we have you don't need  to read the book this one I specifically made for um a couple of the ones on this list that I didn't  really love the book but I did enjoy the show so I don't think they

're better than the book per se  like some of the god tier ones but I still liked them more than the book and they were enjoyable  shows for the most part even if I didn't love the swords material if that makes sense next we have  read the book these are shows that are typically from some of my favorite books where I feel  like they just didn't do the book justice so it's basically like the book the book letter  and then we have criminal offensive side eye which again self-explanatory put it in

jail  I hated this show it was awful alright so I did not put these in any order so it's kind of  random first up we have Bridgerton season two I'm specifically choosing season two because the  second book The Anthony Bridgerton book is the only book I've read in that Series so we're just  doing this based off of season two specifically and this is just easily going in better than the  book because it is so clearly better than the book I don't think anyone is surprised but I don't  think you're

gonna be surpris Ed surprised by like most of these placements except for the ones that  you've never heard me talk about before I didn't I didn't Bridgerton book rarely get through  it I really just finished it out of spite but I love the show it is such a comfort show  for me I've rewatched season two so many times I am obsessed it's an embarrassing level of  obsession it's truly so bad but I do really really love season two so that's going in better  than the book because it's infinitely bett

er than the book and it's just like one of my favorite  seasons of a show in general okay next up We Have a Heart Stopper which I did a reaction  to for the first two episodes I think on my channel and season two comes out in like August  I think so very very soon at this point but I loved heartstopper I loved the graphic apples  I read all of them right before the show came out because I wanted to be prepared for it it's  so heartwarming and cute and just purely joyful um so this is going to go

in book handshake show  because I think it's equally as good as the books I think the books do certain things better but I  think there's certain things about the adaptation that are more appealing as well I just really  love it it's made me cry and I've rewatched it so many times it's just such a wholesome show and  they did a fantastic job adapting it it just feels exactly like the books which is all you could  ever ask of from an adaptation so yeah that's going there okay next up we have a s

eries of  unfortunate events I'm gonna put this in the book show tier the second tier as well because I think  this is a fantastic adaptation it's been a while since I've seen it I would say Heart Stopper is  definitely better in terms of an adaptation but I still loved the show it was so enjoyable to watch  and I felt like it also very much understood the source material I read the Series of Unfortunate  Events books as an adult actually I read them maybe like four years ago or something for th

e  first time they're so sad and disturbing in so many ways um but just such a unique series and I  feel like the show did a great job of translating the atmosphere that the books had onto the screen  so yeah that one's going in the second tier for sure okay next up we have conversations with  friends this one is easily going in read the book because I hated the show I couldn't finish  the show I don't know how many episodes it was but I think I only watched like five of them it's  five or six o

f them maybe and I just couldn't keep going I got so so bored and I actually really  loved the book surprisingly because I didn't think I was going to like it I haven't liked Sally  Rooney's other books um so I did not think I was gonna like this book but I really really loved the  book and I feel like the adaptation just it just didn't work I feel like there were certain nuances  in that book that just do not translate on screen and I don't know if it was just that or if it was  the direction o

r the uh screenplay or whatever it was but something about this didn't work it didn't  work I don't think anyone liked this I meant to rank normal people right after that so we're gonna  go to normal people next normal people on the other hand I'm gonna put in you don't need to read  the book I know you're all gonna get mad at me for every normal people stand I like the show better  personally I think it works as a show better than it does as a book I feel like something about it  felt more emot

ional to me when I was watching it rather than reading it but I felt the opposite  way about conversations with friends and I cannot explain why I don't know what it is I don't know  how to articulate it but for some reason that's just how I felt normal people worked as a show  it's still not my favorite show I've ever seen but I do like it more than I liked the book but  I'd read the book first and then watched it and I was surprised to see how much more I actually  enjoyed the show so yeah tha

t's where I'm putting those too okay next up we have Emma um this  is a BBC mini series I ranked this in my movie adaptation tier ranking as well I think so some  of these are repeats but I just wanted to include them anyway because like I said they're not that  many I think it's like six episodes or something like that maybe four I don't remember it's like  not super long but I love this adaptation this is one of my favorite Jane Austen adaptations and  I feel like most people don't talk about

it and nobody has seen it I know a lot of people like the  new Emma movie I've seen it I thought it was okay definitely not the worst during Austin adaptation  I've seen but not my favorite by far um this Emma adaptation is the superior adaptation so I'm gonna  put this in book handshake show I don't know what to call that tier so I'm just calling it that but  anyway it's really well made um it's definitely a bit older and it has that like BBC look but I  grew up watching Doctor Who and a lot of

other BBC shows so I'm used to that like older style  and look to them and I really really love it I feel like it really understands the story again  and it's just a well-made adaptation do I think it's as good as the book no but it does belong in  this tier for sure so highly recommend it if you haven't watched it okay so next up we have Game of  Thrones so this is the one show on this list where I have not read the book but I decided to include  it anyway because I Tried reading the first boo

k a long time ago and I could not get through it and I  just know I'm never going to read it I feel like I got enough out of what I did read to know that I  wouldn't like it I've seen it so many times like I've seen all of Game of Thrones except the final  season like at least four times I've rewatched it many times I went through a phase where I was  just like obsessively watching this show it was a bad time we don't need to talk about it but  I feel like I just I know enough about it and from

what I read from that first book I you know  I I got a feel for it so that's why I'm leaving it on here also because it's just such a popular  popular show and everyone has pretty much seen it so I wanted to talk about it anyway because I  have no other place to talk about it so we're talking about it here it's fine these are my rules  you don't have to follow the same rules but Game of Thrones barring that last season which I feel  like I dislike for different reasons than a lot of people becau

se most people are really mad about  that ending which I will not spoil in case you've never seen it but a lot of people are really  mad about that ending because of like certain things that happen to certain characters I am not  mad about what happened to certain characters I personally think that everything that happened  for the most part to most of those characters is exactly what should have happened the problem  is that it was just so unbelievably rushed and poorly written that we didn't e

arn what happened  to each character if that makes sense and I know other people definitely also feel this way but I  feel like a good majority of people get very upset about would happen to a very specific character  who I will not name but I think that that's exactly what should have happened to them and  that was exactly what was always going to happen to them and where they were always going to end  up because it was obvious from the beginning and it did not ruin their character whatsoever w

hat  ruined everything was how rushed everything was that was the problem and it absolutely destroyed  that last season which was so tragic because I loved so much of the rest of the show I also have  so many problems with that show I do not know how to explain how I feel about Game of Thrones I love  it and I also really deeply hate it and I wouldn't really ever recommend it to people but like I'd  have to really personally know you and then I could recommend it to you but a part of me deeply 

loves that show and certain things about it so yeah anyway long-winded rant about Game of Thrones  over um I'm gonna put this in you don't need to read the book I know I've only read like maybe  50 pages of the first book and that's definitely not enough to judge the first book compared to the  first season or whatever but I don't care because again these are my rules this is my channel  Channel this is my video so I am judging it based off of just those 50 pages this is not to say that  I think

that George RR Martin is not a good writer I don't know I would have to actually read the  entire book but I just do not see myself ever committing to actually reading the entirety of the  Game of Thrones series maybe if he ever finishes it then I'll read it but even then I don't think  that I will I also need to go on a mini rant here really quickly because this is very important to  me and something that I use as a metric to judge people on um and that is specifically people's  opinion on San

sa Stark because Sansa Stark is my favorite character in all of Game of Thrones and  anybody who hates her like the people who truly truly hate Sansa you're just a misogynist I cannot  stand people who hate Sansa Stark because she's my favorite character and she's the best character  and the smartest character in that entire show but anyway that's my Game of Thrones rant over okay  next up we have rings of power so this is the other show on here that had like a little bit of a  caveat the rings

of power is adapted from like the Lord of the Rings UNIF verse so it's not based off  a specific book there are elements in it that are from the silmarillion if you've read that which  I've read like excerpts of before but I've never read the entire thing so it's just based off of  like lore from The Lord of the Rings series and I've only read the first Lord of the Rings book in  The Hobbit so I'm counting that as having read it and watching the show because I feel like there's  no specific book

you know so we're just gonna go with it anyway but this show was a mess I'm gonna  put it in read the book I wanted to like this so badly like so so badly because I love Lord of  the Rings those movies are some of my all-time favorite movies I rewatch them constantly and I  really wanted to like this and I really liked so much of the cast I feel like they honestly did  a really good job in terms of acting as well and there was such a high budget for this show like  there was no reason for it to

be as boring as it was but it was unfortunately so deeply boring I  almost didn't finish it which is really sad I did because it's Lord of the Rings and I had to push  myself through but it was not fun I need TV to go go back to making really great fantasy shows  like high fantasy shows that's what was so fun about Game of Thrones I feel like we need more  High fantasy shows and we really really don't get a lot of them and I feel like there's like  a little bit of a Resurgence of it I feel like

we are starting to kind of get some stuff with  rings of Power House of the dragon and Shadow and Bone which we'll get to too but I want more  High fantasy shows like Well Done High fantasy shows because this one had all the potential  that it did not reach it unfortunately and I was really rooting for it and also picky but like  the elves looked so odd their hair just made no sense and they just did not look like elves they  looked like they had Instagram face that was the problem you know how

people talk about how certain  actors don't have like a face that works in like a period drama because they look too modern that's  how I felt about so many of the elves they just did not work especially elrond like he just did  not look like an elf he looked like he knew what Instagram was so yeah anyway that was a very big  disappointment for me personally in the last year um because I was so looking forward to that show  and it just I did not live up to my expectations okay next up we have D

aisy Jones and the six and  this is the one I've been waiting to talk about because this is the one that people have been  asking me about ever since it came out because if you know me at all you know Daisy Jones and  the six is one of my favorite books of all time I love that book I've read it multiple times  and I think about it constantly still and the show came out and I was so excited about it  okay I was so so thrilled to watch this show and I did not love it and I'm really sad to say  tha

t I feel like it unfortunately gets worse as it goes on I liked it a lot more at the beginning  I had no problems at first at first I could like tell they were changing things but it wasn't  that big of a deal and then it wasn't until the end until we specifically get to that scene  with Camilla and Daisy if you've watched it or read the book you know what I'm talking about  actually if you've read the book you don't know what I'm talking about because they changed  everything completely and tha

t's the problem there's a confrontation between Camilla and Daisy  again without spoiling anything that in the book is one of the greatest scenes in the entire book  it is so emotional it's pivotal in that it gives you your understanding of these characters of  Daisy Jones as a person and Camilla and their relationship specifically and how this is not  a story about two girls fighting over some guy but the show the show stripped it of all of that  the show turned it into the two of them pretty m

uch just fighting over Billy and it lost so much  of the nuance and so much of the depth that was in the book so much of the essential parts of the  story oh my God like I was so mad after I watched that last episode I could not stop talking about  it and complaining about it to my friends who are also watching who've also read the book and I  was just so unbelievably frustrated and mad and angry and disappointed because I wanted to love it  because I do really like certain things about it a lot

of the casting was really well done it was  filmed well and written well for the most part um the cinematography was nice A lot of it looked  like Daisy Jones but it didn't feel like Daisy Jones in terms of the characters themselves like  the heart of it wasn't there I did enjoy a lot of the music there are a couple songs that I really  love I really love um honeycomb and I really like the river the river is my favorite one probably  I'm still a little bit bitter I'm not gonna lie so this is ea

sily gonna go in read the book it's  definitely not as good as the book I would never watch the show again and I personally wouldn't  really recommend it to anyone it's just a show to watch in general like if you want this story  read the book it's so much more worth it it's not nearly as good as the original book yeah I'm  still very sad very very sad about that next up we have 13 Reasons Why which is another one I  have talked about in my tier ranking my other tier ranking video my movie One e

asily criminal  offensive side eye this is one of the worst shows I've ever seen in my life I've talked about it  multiple times I talked about how much I hate the book I only watched seasons one and two and I have  unfortunately watched I didn't even know that they were edited but I've watched the unedited version  apparently there are a couple scenes in those two seasons that were considered by so many people  myself including so unbelievably unnecessarily violent and graphic that Netflix went

back and uh  changed them they re-edited the scenes so they are not as graphic as they used to be I watched the  original versions because I've had people describe to me what they saw when they watched it and it's  not what I saw I saw something much worse than what is in that show now I truly only watched the  second season because I was in a dark place and I was self-sabotaging sometimes you just watch  or consume like really bad media when you don't feel well and it's just a really bad habit

which  I don't recommend to anybody and I'm trying trying to not do that anymore and I definitely do it less  than I used to but that was at that time years ago and I would never ever recommend the show to  anybody it's awful and I think I did see certain things throughout the third season where there's  a Redemption Arc for truly the worst character in that entire show and it was vile absolutely vile  I cannot believe the way they tried to Market that is like this is about mental health and th

is  is about like having a conversation when it was literally just non-stop violence Gore self-harm um  just triggering content after triggering content and detrimental to literally all of its viewers so  yeah truly one of the worst shows ever made I feel like there's no debate on that okay next up we  have the Summer I Turned Pretty which is getting season two very soon and I'm really excited about  it because I really enjoyed this show it's going in book and show handshake because I honestly 

don't remember the majority of the book I read it a long time ago and I don't think I read the the  third one I think I only read the first two but I liked the first season a lot it's not my favorite  show I've ever seen but I feel like it was a good adaptation it was really cute it was heartfelt it  made me emotional and it was a well-made show and I'm excited for the next season and it reminded  me a lot of the why a kind of shows that I used to watch like the ABC family now free form shows  t

hat I used to watch when I was like in middle school high school like Pretty Little Liars like  the early seasons of those that were made for like a teen audience and it felt like it had the  same Vibe as those shows where I feel like in recent years a lot of teen shows have just failed  miserably they have just not been well written but this one I felt was very genuinely well written  and just an enjoyable show overall so yeah I'm very excited for the next season okay next up we  have the oppos

ite of the Summer I Turned Pretty as in a teen show that was extremely poorly written  in the past few years that is Shadowhunters so I mentioned earlier that like I've not been doing  very well and I've been like dealing with a lot of personal stuff recently if you want to know  how poorly I've been feeling I started re-watching Shadowhunters okay yes you can be concerned for  me it's fine I'm currently on season two it's worse than I remember which is actually saying  a lot because I hated thi

s show as it was airing but eating so much worse than I remember it there  used to be redeeming qualities for me there's not a single redeeming quality now not a single one  it's so bad Magnus and Alec used to be the only thing that like I could stomach in that show even  they're bad I can't take it it's so awful this is some of the worst acting I think I've ever seen  some of the worst script writing I've ever seen it's so offensive in every sense of the word but  at the time it was really hard

to even talk about how bad it was because the fandom for that show  which was oddly very separated from the fandom of the book series they loved that show so much  that's why it has three seasons which is crazy to me it should have been canceled after season  one but the fans of the show were really really hardcore I remember this was like early on in  my booktube days when people would talk about it online if you ever said anything negative about  The Shadowhunters show the fans would come for

you they were ride or die for this horrible horrible  script and I don't know why I know the source material like the original Mortal Instruments  series is not that great either this is coming from someone who loved those books as a kid I'm  fully aware of what they are okay like I'm I'm not delusional about that but I think anyone has  to admit that the source material was still better than this show Absolutely painful it's going in  criminal offensive side eye for very different reasons than

13 reasons why it's not nearly as  like you know detrimental to society as that show was but it was detrimental to me personally every  time I watch it I feel like I'm being stabbed in my eyes okay next up we have Anne with an E this  is easily going in better than the book I've read Anne of Green Gables I think it's an enjoyable  book but I didn't read it as a kid so I don't think it really feels the same for me as it does  for a lot of other people but this show is one of my all-time favorite

TV shows I talked about it  recently in a video about my favorite shows and movies it is so so phenomenal it is so emotional  it is one of those things that I watched where I was like I feel like this understands me on some  level that I did not know how to vocalize before and um it was just one of those things that  touched me so deeply it makes me feel really nostalgic and it's so beautifully made it is  criminal that it was cut short it deserved more time for us to fully explore the ending A

rc  but I still love it so so much truly one of the best shows if you get anything from this video at  all just please watch Anne with an E okay next up we have Shadow and Bone which I made a video  on recently talking about the second season this one I know exactly where I'm gonna put it I'm  gonna put it in read the book because I do think the book is better I obviously really love that  series and six of crows as you all know is like one of my favorite book series of all time so I  was so exc

ited about this adaptation and season one I really enjoyed is it as good as the book no  but it's still a good show and it was enjoyable to watch it has problems for sure but I still really  loved it I really watched it multiple times season two there are things about it that I really really  loved things about it that like I'm so glad we got to see on screen because I love the cast so  much so much they're The Perfect cast The Script don't love so much I it's not it's not the best  there were s

o many issues I had with season two I talked about them all in that video but I  still want a season three I want the six of crows spin-off desperately because this cast is  just too perfect to let go so I want more I just don't think it's a great adaptation it's nowhere  near as bad as something like Shadowhunters I still think it's better than Daisy Jones and the  six actually I'm gonna put it all the way in the front of read the book but there were just so many  missed opportunities I think e

specially in that second season where they were just packing it with  everything with like four books in one for some reason it was overwhelming and convoluted and it  made no sense story wise and they just messed with a lot of the characters and I I just I did not  enjoy a lot of that second season hopefully if the writer strike goes well and our writers are  paid well they can come back for another season or six of crows spin-off and we can get the show  that we actually deserve because I know

they have it in them to do it so I believe there's a chance  I believe there there's a chance for it to be done and for it to be done well okay and then lastly  we have you I mentioned this one in the movie tier ranking as well um but I think at the time only  season one was out and I did not like it at all and I've since watched all of it except for the  second half of season four I didn't like season two either but season three of you was so funny  to me I literally loved that season so I rea

d the book and I've only read the first one I haven't  read hidden bodies or anything else and compared to the first season the book is infinitely better  like there's no need to watch the first season and I even told this to one of my friends um  who wanted to watch the show who had seen the first season I told them to just skip everything  and watch season three because especially if you live in California in Northern California in the  Bay Area because that's where that season is set there's

so much about Bay Area culture in that  season that is just absolutely hysterical like some of it is so painfully accurate and now  I kind of watch you as like a comedy slash a satire rather than what I think they originally  wanted it to be which was more of like a cycle logical Thriller which is what the book is but if  you watch the show as more of like a comedy it's a lot more enjoyable and that's how I watch the  show now so I actually really enjoyed that third season overall as a whole I d

on't think the show  is fantastic I'm gonna put it in read the book because I do think if you want a psychological  Thriller the first book is really well done and the first season does not capture that at all  but if you want to watch a season of the show just watch season three of the show and just like  look up the synopsis of the first two seasons so you're not confused because season three was just  honestly so much fun for me alright but there we have it beautiful tier ranking again not th

at many  tears because there aren't that many adaptations I've seen in terms of TV and hopefully they  will start making more adaptations um book to TV adaptations because I really like TV adaptations I  feel like they really really work with some books I feel like it's a much better direction to go  with for a lot of books than a movie because it works better especially for something like a  series not always but sometimes it really just depends but yeah let me know if you've watched any  of th

ese shows slash read any of these books and how you would rank them and also any other book  to TV adaptations you think I should read slash watch I would very much be interested I'm always  looking for new TV shows to watch because if I am not reading I am watching a show or a movie  typically a show but that is it for this video I hope you all have enjoyed watching this again  don't forget to check out the Clockwork reader film and TV journal in the description box below  which is out June 27t

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