adaptation, but she was lured by the Paris setting and more importantly the opportunity to live and work in Paris for three months. Jason Isaacs and Patrick J. Adams joined the cast on January 20. Holland's daughter Kasia Adamik served as the second unit director. Scott Abbott and James Wong wrote the 2014 adapted screenplay. Unlike the novel and movie, the miniseries is set and shot in Paris rather than New York City. While the new adaptation was bloodier than the original movie version, it attempted to be more sophisticated by touching on themes such as "post-feminist meditation on the loss of control that women feel with pregnancy and on the seduction of money and power". Whereas the original movie used the Omaha native housewife transplanted in New York City, the new adaptation presented Saldana's Rosemary as a ballet dancer who was the primary wage-earner and who left New York after a miscarriage to start over in Paris with her husband during his one-year teaching job at the Sorbonne. Episodes Reception On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the show held a 31% approval rating with an average score of 4.8/10, based on 35 reviews. The consensus read: "Although the Parisian setting and special effects are impressive, this Rosemary's Baby remake resorts to sensationalism and gore." At Metacritic, the show had a score of 51 out of 100, based on 27 reviews, which indicates a "mixed or average" response. Alessandra Stanley of The New York Times, who called the miniseries a "surprisingly clever remake", felt that the choice of Paris as the setting was not only "one of the best things" about the remake, but it works well with the theme of conflict with neighbors. Furthermore, she noted that it was reasonable that Rosemary (Zoe Saldana) would be naive and dependent because of her unfamiliarity with Paris as a newcomer. Stanley wrote that the host couple, French sophisticates Margaux (Carole Bouquet) and Roman Castevet (Jason Isaacs), were completely different from the one in Roman Polanski's original. Although she said the adaptation took liberties with the source material, James Poniewozik of Time said the adaptation "keeps its essential shape and plot" in comparison to the original film, an opinion shared by Hank Stuever of The Washington Post, who wrote that the new adaptation was "surprisingly and even satisfyingly true to the old movie". Poniewozik stated that although director Holland had successfully directed complex