![]() ![]() The answer that Schwartz, Savage, and their collaborators come up with is that it shouldn’t. Chip, played by Denny Love), and the other people he meets, and that blankness raises the question of why this should only be his story. He’s a blank slate who gets filled in through his friendships with Alaska, his roommate the Colonel (a.k.a. ![]() He enrolls in the school because he’s never really been anywhere or done anything interesting. when Green’s novel came out back in 2005 - smartly recognizes the limits of that perspective, and of Miles himself. ![]() This long-gestating TV adaptation from Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage - who were producing The O.C. Miles narrates the book, which sees the world and the other characters - particularly the beautiful and mysterious Alaska Young (Kristine Froseth), on whom Miles nurses a hopeless and barely-hidden crush - largely from his perspective. It’s a shallow perspective on the artists’ lives, and Looking for Alaska - based on John Green’s debut YA novel - could risk being a similarly superficial take on Miles’ story as he experiences joy and pain, love and loss. ![]() Miles “Pudge” Halter (Charlie Plummer), the teen hero of Hulu’s Looking for Alaska, is obsessed with famous last words, like poet François Rabelais’ declaration, “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” But as he confesses to his new friends at an elite Alabama boarding school, he’s never actually read the works of the writers he quotes, just their biographies. ![]()
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