The Miniseries Labyrinth Will Leave You Longing For That Bowie Movie

• Tandem Productions GmbH & Film Afrika Worldwide
• Vanessa Kirby as Alice Tanner

Did you read that the CW was airing a Labyrinth miniseries, and then assume that it was a TV adaptation of the 1986 Jim Henson film of the same name? You know, the David Bowie-fueled vehicle that helped launch Jennifer Connelly’s career? Well, it’s actually an adaptation of the 2005 award-winning bestseller by Kate Mosse, a 700-page work of commercial and historical fiction masquerading as a Holy Grail story. And neither the miniseries nor the source material gets that right.

Yes, the relic everyone’s searching for isn’t a physical thing, but some kind of tradition or love that’s passed on between generations, which is represented as a glowing chest cavity of the character to whom it’s passed. And it was inside Alaïs and Alice all along. And Audric. I think.