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'His Dark Materials' casts barely bearable light on fantasy series

7 years ago
Undaunted by "The Golden Compass" failing to find the north star, "His Dark Materials" takes another swing -- and miss -- at adapting Philip Pullman's novels, this time as a BBC and HBO series. Coming on the heels of "Watchmen," it's another notable post-movie effort to build a series around a literary property, yielding (in this case) a paper-thin result.
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