Lauren Brittanie

By: Robert Lloyd

Jack Thorne, who co-wrote last year’s prize-winning “Adolescence,” returns with another story of fractured childhood with an admirable, engrossing new adaptation of William Golding’s much-taught novel of boy castaways, “The Lord of the Flies.” (Not to be confused with “The Lord of the Rings,” though I keep typing that by mistake.)

Published in 1954, Golding’s book has an unstated Cold War backdrop — there is passing reference to an atom bomb and “the Reds,” and an old-fashioned animated atom glimpsed through static at the head of the series. The boys, who are British and range in age from 6 to 12, are being evacuated to somewhere — none of them really knows, and it’s not clear anyone else does, either — when their plane goes down on an uncharted desert isle. (The logo on the aircraft is Corinthian Air, make of that what you will.) (Continue Reading)

Source: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2026-05-04/lord-of-flies-tv-review-netflix