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TV Shows Better Than the Books They're Based On

Just as film was initially treated as artistically inferior to theater, and TV was initially treated as artistically inferior to film, it is also unhelpful to make blanket statements about the superiority of an entire medium over another. There are (mostly) objectively good books and there are (mostly) objectively bad books. There are (mostly) objectively good TV shows and there are (mostly) objectively bad TV shows. And there are things that TV can do as a storytelling medium that film and/or novels cannot, and vice versa.
With that in mind, here are 11 television adaptations that were absolutely just as good (if not better than) the books they were originally based on.
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The 100
The 100
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Outlander
Outlander
3
Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones
4
The Shannara Chronicles
The Shannara Chronicles
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Pretty Little Liars
Pretty Little Liars
6
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
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Hannibal
Hannibal
8
Gossip Girl
Gossip Girl
9
Roswell
Roswell
10
The Vampire Diaries
The Vampire Diaries
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Friday Night Lights
Friday Night Lights
12
Orange Is the New Black (2013)
Orange Is the New Black (2013)
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A Series of Unfortunate Events
A Series of Unfortunate Events
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