Sometimes you just need more Mac, V’lane and Barrons in your life, preferably weekly on a favorite cable network. If unfamiliar with the series [stops for obligatory, “why haven’t you read them yet? Get to it”], you can check out some of our team’s musings on the series, Bekah failing real life responsibilities while reading, and a lovely illustrated poem by Elise. We as a team fell hard for this series, even if one of the characters wears silk shirts…
And to think we’re some of the more tame fans of Karen Moning’s urban fantasy series…
Don’t you recognize the birthday cake scene from FaeFever?
There’s an entire fandom chomping at the bit for this series! I feel obligated as a fan to make an impassioned plea to the studio powers that be to option this book series and create a magical world with death-by-sex fae, the unseelie demon-like creatures, a fantastical Dublin and crazy unresolved sexual tension between many characters. Yes, the series has been optioned before, but as a movie (and the rights went back to the author). This series is too rich with too many characters and layers to work as a simple film. Lets discuss The Fever Series as a TV show.
The Plot
It starts off as a simple murder mystery, but takes a weird twist à la Twin Peaks. When Mac goes to investigate the brutal murder of her sister in Dublin, not everything is what it seems. She meets a cast of characters, but any one of them could be responsible for her sister’s murder. Who is really trying to help her? Does her small town Georgia family somehow have connections to a seedy underworld? As Mackayla Lane is forced to grow up from her privileged small town life and take responsibility to find her sister’s killer, each week, she finds herself more involved in the unimaginably existence of the Fae and a mysterious book that could hold the key to everything. Plus, hot mysterious men.
Each season of the show could follow a book and the stories would not be without major cliff-hangers.
The Men
With any good steamy TV series, there are impossible choices that views and book readers alike will argue over, show their allegiance and create t-shirts. Mac meets the mysterious, foreign, primalisticly (so I made up that word) attractive Jericho Barrons who is only out for himself. V’lane is a death-by-sex fae that is impossibly gorgeous, but there’s the whole could kill you with his penis thing. Then there’s some flirty dreamy-eyed men and the addition of some well-hung Scots.
The Fantastic
Let’s face it, True Blood is almost over. Only a few short months left before the series finale. And while True Blood did introduce the Fae, it wasn’t a main plot of the show. Other network shows may address Angels while others look at demons, but none are looking at the Seelie and Unseelie, old legends and folklore quite like it can be explored in the Fever Series. Add in one possible vampire and some creatures of unknown origin, Karen Moning really does cover it all.
Network Competition
Starz will have a popular book series that we know and love on the small screen with Scots, the English and time-travelers. As evident from years past of somewhat similar shows being produced to battle each other for ratings, the Fever Series could fill this spot. They’ve got Scottish Moors, we’ve got the gritty streets of Dublin! They’ve got accents we can’t understand, we’ve got accents we can’t understand! They’ve got the smex, we’ve got the smex. Totally works.
Strong Female Lead
We can always use more strong female leads in the media. Mac is a Buffy type of personality. Sure, her nails may be “I’m Not Really A Waitress,” and she may occasionally make awful fashion choices (see our interpretation below), but she is a fighter and a survivor. She may, in the end, save us all.
The logical choice to go chat up a goth vamp.
The Fever Series seems like an obvious choice for the next book-to-screen adaptation. You may just want to shy away from Karen’s casting suggestions…she like’s ’em beefy.
Do you think the Fever Series would make a good TV Show? Who would you cast as the leads?
