I Remember Mama

I found the TV adaptation of I Remember Mama much less substantial than the book. The issues are much much more trivial in the TV show. The focus is placed on the mother pov instead of katrins. The mother is portrayed as a more self centered individual than in the book. She's a real negative nancy in the tv show. The play seemed to be a more accurate representation of the book. The tone, characters, themes, events, and overall story were followed more closely in the play than in the tv show.

I was wondering if perhaps TV didn't have an audience for deeper, dramatic, more complicated stories and that's why the tv show seemed like such a pruned generic version of the book. Maybe the producers of the show felt it was necessary to lighten up the book so that the show would appeal to a larger audience.