![]() ![]() The Children born from the Midwich blackout are different from their novel counterparts too. John Wyndham’s book having been written a decade before The 1967 Abortion Act was passed, no such scene features. The same goes for the inclusion of a sequence in which the women of Midwich – mysteriously all pregnant at the same time following a town-wide blackout – attend appointments to terminate their pregnancies but are stopped from doing so through pre-birth mind-control from their alien foetuses. Shifting the narrative perspective towards the story’s women reflects changes in gender politics between the 1950s and today. Book narrator Richard Gayford and his wife Janet are absent, replaced by new characters Zoe (Aisling Loftus), Sam and DCI Paul Haynes, played by Max Beesley. Its lead character isn’t erudite author Gordon Zellaby, but child psychiatrist and single mother Dr Susannah Zellaby, played by Keeley Hawes. In the seven-part series, Midwich is no longer a remote country village, but a commuter town within easy reach of London. The majority of changes made by screenwriter David Farr to the source material for Sky’s new adaptation of The Midwich Cuckoos were tweaks rather than departures. ![]() Warning: contains MAJOR spoilers for The Midwich Cuckoos episodes 1-7 ![]()
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