I think the serialized format really served the story of Dex and Emma well. Though it's very tempting to binge you still have the option to pause and take stock of a single episode. And the conceit of 'one day' offers that kind of distillation of time and its meaning. The temporal and philosophical

I read Marquez’s novel in college some 2 decades ago so I can’t remember anymore the plot details (but surprisingly I remember the names of the main characters and the town of course) and maybe I didn’t have the right faculties for the story and its themes to make an impact. So I treated this adapta