That’s interesting, because I watched a couple of episodes having not read the book and I found it almost unbearably pretentious. I’m all for suspending disbelief for the sake of a good story but the way the characters speak is ludicrous. It’s so contrived to be quirky and intelligent it made me wince. In the first episode when the character showed he knew who Ibsen (I think it was Ibsen...?) was by practically reciting his Wikipedia page, it was so stupid. His dates of birth and death, place of birth etc - nobody talks like that about a writer. Least of all a teenager. I get that they are supposed to be eccentric, but knowing Ibsen’s dates didn’t make him seem intelligent or knowledgeable about literature but it was desperately trying to. And that’s just one example.
