Man in Full (Netflix 2024)
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Read the book in 2022
Tom Wolfe's best maybe, and a stunning portrayal of Atlanta, that has some issues, due to Tom Wolfe being a privilged white guy, but it's an accurate look. Just following Atlanta loosely over the years, BMF, scandals, RICO indictments, it's all in the book, the mixture of politics, race, crime, I mean that's ANY city but Atlanta is unique because of it's past and proximity to the Jim Crow South and the 1700's.
Tom Wolfe's best maybe, and a stunning portrayal of Atlanta, that has some issues, due to Tom Wolfe being a privilged white guy, but it's an accurate look. Just following Atlanta loosely over the years, BMF, scandals, RICO indictments, it's all in the book, the mixture of politics, race, crime, I mean that's ANY city but Atlanta is unique because of it's past and proximity to the Jim Crow South and the 1700's.
daemonova
hit it, & I didn't go Erykah Badu crazy, #yallmad
They changed several major storylines which not only affect the ending but doesn't make it a racial powder keg as it should be
The book was also frequently fukking hilarious. The character of the businessman/real estate tyc00n, also has a lot of implications about America's obsession with powerhouse businessmen, the shadiness of big business, America's reliance on debt and borrowing, and consumption, keeping up appearances.
Lieutenant Daniels
I’m up for Major
Decent quick watch. The ending was very abrupt
that ending caught me off-guard.. needs this to be longer.
daemonova
hit it, & I didn't go Erykah Badu crazy, #yallmad
From the books this could be eight episodes
Mr Hate Coffee
Veteran
Yeah I was left wondering wtf the point of all this was.
Also, the whole trial/jail stuff felt like a totally different show and unrelated to the main plot
Mr Hate Coffee
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daemonova
hit it, & I didn't go Erykah Badu crazy, #yallmad
I haven't finished the show but I read the book.
Coker just gave up and let the banks have it, he we t iff to be a hipster/hermit with (they changed this on the show, the black guy in trouble with the law was an immigrant that ended up as Coker's personal servant), there was a different rape charge on a current Georgia Tech RB, he was in the sane room with the chick, all hands team then they got interrupted, it wasn't rape in 1999. The mayoral race was something they added for the show, the mayor pondered his future and said being a senator was a step down, he said if Andrew Young couldn't be governor, no black man could be governor.
