![]() Obviously, there’s very good marketing sense to invite comparisons to The Hunger Games, but I have mixed feelings about the young adult juggernaut narrative.īut in this case, I’m fine with it, because if it gets more teens reading The Jewel, the better. ![]() The Selection itself was marketed as a riff on The Hunger Games. It just ties in so neatly to the young adult juggernaut narrative, from Harry Potter to Twilight to The Hunger Games to Divergent to the current interregnum. It’s not the latter title, as everybody should read A Handmaid’s Tale, especially teenage girls, but the former. (It is one hundred percent worth it.) But seeing The Jewel marketed as The Selection meets A Handmaid’s Tale gave me pause. I myself constantly convince people to watch Plunkett and Macleane by describing it as “ A Knight’s Tale Gothy, romantic older sister,” only for them to rage about how hard it is to get ahold of. I enjoy a good referential pitch as much as anyone else. ![]()
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