But there's not really a whole lot for older teen and adult viewers, either. There's too much sex and violence for younger (under 15) viewers. But - there's just not enough here to maintain interest. And Vincent D'Onofrio, looking more like Orson Welles with every passing show he does, makes an interesting, if underplayed, Wizard.
This show's version of the Wicked Witch of the West was intriguing, and there's also another character I won't name because of spoilers who is given an interesting approach. Not that there weren't some interesting characters. But I felt this more adult take basically lost what made the original work. And there is precedent for a modernized version to work (The Wiz).
I get that doing a straight out retelling of the original Baum story wouldn't fly today.
