‘His Dark Materials,’ HBO’s adaptation of the Phillip Pullman fantasy novels, is a series that keeps too many secrets. Alan Sepinwall’s review
Much of this is explained via title cards in the premiere’s opening moments, and Thorne often treats them as if they are all the exposition required. They are not. It’s never clear, for instance, how total the Magisterium’s rule is, nor the level of influence it has over the day-to-day existence of ordinary people. Lyra has grown up at a college that is protected to a degree from Magisterium rule, but that’s vague, too.
Parts of the series are presented from Lyra’s innocent point of view, but not all of it. Most of the adults — save for the Gyptians, a tribe of lower-class nomads who travel on houseboats — have hidden agendas. This means that large swaths of the show play out without any indication of why things are happening — or even what’s happening.
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