The Passage: where to start reading
Adapts The Passage by Justin Cronin. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.
at The Passage.
The one and only season adapts about the first quarter of the first novel, according to the cast and showrunner, and folds in a handful of elements from later in the book. It also changes and reorders material. Because it stops so early and the series was cancelled, the cleanest move is to begin the novel from the start rather than trying to skip ahead; almost the whole trilogy still lies ahead.
Season 1 leaves off about 25% in. Pick the book up right there:
The Passage
What the show changed here
- ChangedAmy is aged up to about ten and recast, older and a different race than the young girl of the novel.
- ChangedThe test-subject villain Babcock is changed from the book's male Giles into a blonde woman, Shauna.
- ChangedAgent Clark Richards is reinvented as Wolgast's longtime friend with a romance, and Wolgast's own backstory is flipped.
- InventedThe show gives Amy Carrie-style telekinetic powers she doesn't have in the book.
Fox's single ten-episode season adapts only the opening stretch of the first novel in Justin Cronin's trilogy, then was cancelled. It covers roughly the first quarter of The Passage while weaving in a few elements from later in the book, so a viewer who finished the show has a long way still to go in book one alone. Books two and three (The Twelve, The City of Mirrors) were never reached on screen.
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