FX to turn Her Body And Other Parties into a "feminist Black Mirror"
According to Deadline, FX has picked up the rights to an anthology series based on Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body And Other Parties. The original book is a short story collection that puts a sci-fi/fantasy spin on various real-life horrors that women face, including a dark (well, darker) spin on the old The Green Ribbon story and a lengthy piece involving a series of surreal and nightmarish episodes of Law & Order: SVU. The TV version is being pitched as a “feminist Black Mirror,”with “fairy tale themes,” and the connective tissue from episode to episode will be a recurring ensemble of characters who experience “vivid tales of women’s fears and desires on landscapes of horror, fabulism, and wild-haired absurdity.”