Live Reaction: His Dark Materials on HBO - Season 1 Episode 1
Hey, y’all. I’m finally sitting down to get started on an HBO series that is, I think, going to fill the GOT sized hole in my life: His Dark Materials. I was ecstatic to find out that HBO would be taking it on as a series for all the obvious reasons; being faithful to the source material chief among them. Click here to get it on Amazon and support me in the process! As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. I read the books by Philip Pullman several years back when I found out that the Catholic Church hates them. As an atheist and a fantasy nerd, I cruised through them pretty quickly once I got my hands on the first one. The second and third books of this hero-trope bending trilogy may have been a few of the first books I ever read entirely as digital files, now that I think of it. I found the protagonist, a plucky 12-year-old girl named Lyra, very relatable, though I was in my mid-20s at the time (mid Aughts, prior to the when the movie c...