For all its merits, modern television is rarely aesthetically artful—which is what makes Lord of the Flies, a new four-part BBC-produced adaptation of William Golding’s seminal 1954 novel, so bracing.
Following up last year’s acclaimed Adolescence with yet another stinging psychological profile of young boys driven by terrible impulses to devious and destructive ends, Jack Thorne crafts a knockout with his latest miniseries (May 4, on Netflix).
Collaborating with director Marc Munden on a version of Golding’s familiar tale that’s visually and sonically rich and devoid of even an ounce of unnecessary preachiness, the esteemed writer once again proves that, in the right hands, TV is just as capable as its big-screen counterpart at evocatively showing as much as telling.
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