Adaptations Critics Hated:

Klara and the Sun (30% Tomatometer): “noxious sentimentality” that “strips away everything insightful and affecting from Ishiguro’s novel.”

Verity (31%): The “intensely stupid twist” makes the ending “inconceivably lazy.”

Practical Magic 2 (36%): An “overlong, muddled” story that “strips the franchise of its gothic charms.” This one does have a 90% audience score, however.

Adaptations Audiences Hated:

Finding Her Edge (50% Popcornmeter): This Netflix series has an “uneven plot, some predictable story arcs, and a forced love triangle.” Critics disagreed: it has an 87% Tomatometer score.

Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials (52%): “Certainly, no rope has ever been made that’s strong enough to support the amount of disbelief we needed to suspend.”

Cape Fear (52%): “In pursuit of an expanded canvas for Cady and the Bowdens, showrunner Nick Antosca has thrown in the kitchen sink, then the tumble dryer and the aircon unit.”

Overall Worst:

The Last Thing He Told Me (47% Tomatometer, 48% Popcornmeter): The second season of this series is a “thrill-light nothingburger of a story.”

Dishonorable Mentions:

Wuthering Heights and Reminders of Him both attracted a lot of discourse and low critic ratings (57% and 56%, respectively), but the audience scores are more forgiving (74% and 87%).

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