There’s little brilliant about Netflix’s ‘My Brilliant Career’
Can one spoil a TV series based on a 125-year-old novel? I won’t, but let the record show that I badly want to. Netflix’s My Brilliant Career, a six-part adaptation of the book by Australia’s Miles Franklin, seems so obviously to be doing one thing that its reversal is a gut punch.
- ▪Can one spoil a TV series based on a 125-year-old novel?
- ▪I won’t, but let the record show that I badly want to.
- ▪Netflix’s My Brilliant Career, a six-part adaptation of the book by Australia’s Miles Franklin, seems so obviously to be doing one thing that its reversal is a gut punch.
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| Canonical URL | https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/4698999/my-brilliant-career-netflix-review-feminist-propaganda/ |
| Publication time | Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:15:00 +0000 |
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Can one spoil a TV series based on a 125-year-old novel? I won’t, but let the record show that I badly want to. Netflix’s My Brilliant Career, a six-part adaptation of the book by Australia’s Miles Franklin, seems so obviously to be doing one thing that its reversal is a gut punch. I watched the full run with some interest, then went away wishing I hadn’t. Recommended Stories CNN uses picture of Dolly Parton impersonator during coverage of her death Former Border Patrol chief claims Trump administration wants him ‘killed’ Diner en Blanc is back in DC — but where will it be? Like the 1901 tale from which it is adapted, Netflix’s series presents audiences with a romantic fable set Down Under.
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