All the Light We Cannot See may disappoint fans of the book

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All The Light We Cannot See is a four-episode limited series based on the awardwinning 2014 novel by Anthony Doerr. The series shares the alternating perspectives of a blind French girl hiding in her great uncle’s house and a young German man joining the Nazi military ranks during 1944 towards the end of World War II.

A blind teenage girl, Marie-Laure (Aria Mia Loberti) broadcasts and reads from her braille book. Even though it’s punishable by death to broadcast, she continues in hopes of finding her missing father, the locksmith of the French Museum of Natural History, and to share coded messages of resistance through her broadcasts.

Through these broadcasts he meets Werner (Louis Hofmann), an orphaned Nazi soldier, who is an extraordinarily gifted radio engineer. He keeps Marie-Laure’s broadcasting and location a secret — even though the Nazis have been trying to locate her.

Then a villain is added to the equation. A Nazi general, Von Rumpel, searches for the whereabouts of Marie to find a cursed jewel hidden by her father that he believes will cure him of cancer, the cursed Sea of Flames.

If you read the book, you might be disappointed. The series was not the best depiction of the book’s original success:The acting is consistently lacking, and the dialogue progressively deteriorates. A disappointing discovery as Mark Ruffalo and Hugh Laurie were A-listers that graced the cast.

“The book is the mountain. The mountain will always exist,” explainsShawn Levy, director and executive producer in an interview. He also continues to describe the series as “a painting of that mountain. We’re not trying to replace it. We’re not trying to make a photograph or a Xerox. It’s our impression of that mountain.”

You can watch the series today on Netflix.