t’s been at least three decades since I read Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ books, so I’d be hard-pressed to recall any of them, but this New Yorker take on the new TV adaptation thinks it strays from the source material in the laziest ways possible.
When “Foundation” Gets the Blockbuster Treatment, Isaac Asimov’s Vision Gets Lost
The TV version of the classic sci-fi saga sidelines its source’s most pressing questions about power and precarity.