“I used to be a genuine YA fiction fan back in the day, from Hunger Games to Divergent to The Maze Runner. It was all the rage in the mid-2000s and as such, came a rush of adaptations of those series and many more.
“Now, we have what feels like one of the most bizarre time-warps I’ve ever seen, Netflix’s release of Uglies, which feels like a parody of YA fiction, and impossibly dated as a result. And it is dated, given that the original book (and ensuing trilogy) were released starting in 2006.”
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