Before Hollywood poured millions into CGI and epic battles, television gave us our first big ticket to Narnia. The 1988 BBC miniseries definitely made its mark, filling a lot of people's Sunday nights with a feeling of pure coziness. But does our nostalgia hide the flaws of a super low-budget production? I revisited this childhood classic to see if the magic holds up or if it melted away with the studio's styrofoam snow. If you've read C.S. Lewis, you know how attached fans get to the details of this universe. The BBC crew treated the original text like a sacred script. They didn't try to r…
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