Malory Towers was an integral part of growing up. Many of us even in India obtained our moral compass through these books. This series is disappointing. It has two issues: (i) It isn't faithful to the books. (ii) It isn't believable. A number of incidents that occur in the books like Mr Rivers operating on Sally (first), Mary-Lou being rescued by Daphne after almost falling off a cliff (second), Miss Peters going on a horse to fetch a vet for a horse (third), the famous Christmas pantomine (fifth), are all skipped. Instead we have a foolish storyline about the ghost of Lady Malory (?). The MT books were never fantasy but always plausible. And while it is possible for Mrs Potts (the first form mistress who also seems to run North Tower) to have been a person of color, in Britain around WWI, it certainly isn't plausble. [However, I'm a person of color, so I do appreciate the woke pressures and challenges these days.] In any case, what does it take for people to exactly recreate the books scene-by-scene? Is that too hard? That was the only way to get the eyeballs of adults who grew up on these books. Instead this series falls in the cracks--too slow to appeal to children and unfaithful enough to turn off adults.
Review of Malory Towers
