Variety features the novel The Favorites by Layne Fargo and its possible TV adaptation.
“This was a book I wrote for myself about things I was obsessed with,” says Fargo, a longtime viewer of figure skating competitions on TV and a big “Wuthering Heights” fan. When she began, she was working on two different books — a gothic romance and a thriller about ice dancers. “Neither one was working and I just kept bouncing back and forth. Finally, I had the idea to mash them together and make it a ‘Wuthering Heights’ retelling… I’d been struggling for years, and then it was just like this magical process.” [...]
While the characters in the book weren’t based on people in Fargo’s life, they were “composites of famous skaters.”
“Kat is very much based on Katarina Witt, the German skater who I grew up watching and have always been obsessed with; she’s just so bold and sexy,” Fargo says. “The Lins were inspired partially by the Shibutani siblings, who are just so sweet. I hope they don’t think that I think they’re as calculating as Bella. They seem like such sweethearts. I’ve always loved watching them, and they were a sibling team that really rose up in the ranks.”
While the Lin family’s heritage is said in the book, Heath’s background is not — which is purposeful.
“Since it’s a ‘Wuthering Heights’ retelling and Heathcliff never knows where he’s come from, and it’s a matter of debate even now, I wanted to keep it kind of mysterious because I think that’s so key to his character,” she says. “He doesn’t have an identity, so he tries to create one through his love for this other person. Out of his trauma, he attaches himself to her.” (Emily Longeretta)
The Herald features stories of people who read the wrong books:
She also spoke to Sara McCrae who started a school assignment book report on Wuthering Heights after her mum picked her up a copy at the local bookshop. Except it wasn’t quite the version that Emily Bronte had written. In fact she was reading Wuthering Nights, the bodice-ripper version of the story, which had a less than Victorian approach to the subject of sexuality.
“I have never thought about Wuthering Heights in the same way again,” McCrae admitted. (Teddy Jamieson)
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Arguably one of the greatest love stories every written, you may be wondering what this masterpiece could have in common with MAFS - another masterpiece for very different reasons. This gothic novel tells the story of Cathy and the brooding anti-hero, Heathcliff. They are the blueprint for today’s unlikely pairing trope, which can be found in modern novels as well as, you guessed it, Married At First Sight. While Cathy and Heathcliff’s relationship is doomed due to their different classes and expectations, Emily Brontë’s novel is still considered one of the best romantic novels of the past two centuries. (Sarah O'Byrne)
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