On Friday, two different streaming services present the first seasons of new drama series. Both are based on novels written by women, both have female characters squarely at their center — and both come to TV with accomplished women producers overseeing their adaptations.
One of them, on Amazon, is a fairly modern story, with Jill Soloway, the creator of Amazon’s groundbreaking Transparent, adapting Chris Kraus’ provocatively titled 1997 novel, I Love Dick.
The other, a Netflix co-production with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, is a new, somewhat less glossy version of a children’s classic. Moira Walley-Beckett, an Emmy-winning writer-producer from the Breaking Bad team, adapts the long-cherished 1908 Lucy Maud Montgomery novel, Anne of Green Gables.
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