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disneybooksandanimearemylife · 2 years

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Book Blog: Devil in Ohio by Daria Polatin

So I actually finished this a couple days ago, I just had a lot of work and personal life shit going on. I will say my expectations on it were low, after reading it though it did get higher, though not without it faults

PLOT: Jules is the middle child of her family, she’s quirky and into vintage clothes, likes photography and old fashion films. She has a friend Issac and while she’s not population she not a loner either; things are just fine in her quaint life. That is until her mom (Who’s a hospital psychiatrist) bring home a young girl one night. Mae Dodd was found on the side of the road and is covered in unusual scars, some signifying the pentagram and satanic cult symbols. Mae comes from the town of Tisdale, Ohio. There’ they worship the Devil as though he were a God. Jules’ mom does not like the idea of sending Mae back to such a horrific place so she let’s Mae stay at her home temporarily.

At first Jules is unsure of the idea. I mean who wants to be known for adopting a Satan worshipper into the family. In times it does appear that Mae is warmer up to Jules and her family...maybe a little too much. At first it was little things like Mae borrowing Jules’ clothes to Jules’ mom just getting Mae new ones and leaving her family behind, then it’s copying Jules habits, then to flirting with the boy Jules likes...Almost as if she’s trying to distance Jules from any sense of normalcy. Could this be the work of something sinister?

PROS: I love how the writer handles the middle child issues in this book. I’m not a middle child myself but I’ve read stories and articles and even some shows describe that the middle child is usually left to their own devices. They feel left out on certain things and activities, and their wants and desires are put aside for the younger sibling or the older sibling. Jules fits into that category, Her younger sister is trying to get into a musical and the older one is just about to start college, so where does that leave Jules? All she wants to do is spend time with her mom in Chicago but that trip canceled and you can feel her anger reaching a breaking point. That and the boy she likes turns out to like someone else (guess who?) so now she feels completely isolate from anyone she thought she could trust.

Even though Jules is the main character Mae is the big mystery. Why did her town abandon her? Why is she covered in scars, why do white roses trigger her? and why is she copying Jules? Even in the end of the book there’s still an ominous vibe from Mae that like “Not everything was answered, and that’s a good thing.”

When they do mention Tisdale; the Satan lovers town it does feel very creepy. Maybe not Silent Hill creepy. But definitely unwelcoming if you’re an outsider.

CONS: While I do love the middle child problems that are sprinkled throughout the story, I wish the writer gave the siblings a bit more personalities. Just having one quirk isn’t enough; sure the younger child is into musicals and is a drama queen, but how she loves studying history and wants to help Jules discover what Tisdale is all about? Or how about the older child defends Jules when their mom is more supportive of Mae than her own kids? It just feels like the other sibling are there; say a few lines’ then leave stage left.

And for the title to the word Devil, there’s very little supernatural things going on. Yes cult are creepy and having an entire town worship evil like it’s totally natural in forboding. But I wanted to see spooky specters around Mae, or her being possessed by an evil spirit. Just something.

I liked it enough. Had some good creepy moments, subtle meanings on family dynamics, scary cults, It would be the perfect read for halloween. I rate it a7.5/10.

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cultfaction · 2 years

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Devil in Ohio trailer released

Discover why no one is safe on Netflix on September 2nd 2022! When hospital psychiatrist Dr. Suzanne Mathis (Emily Deschanel) shelters a mysterious cult escapee (Madeleine Arthur), her world is turned upside down as the strange girl’s arrival threatens to tear her own family apart. Adapted from Daria Polatin’s best-selling book inspired by a true story, Devil In Ohio is a thrilling, shocking tale…

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wornoutspines · 10 months

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The newest iteration of Jack Ryan surprised me in many ways, here's my review #JohnKrasinski #JackRyan #PrimeVideo #TomClancy #BookAdaptation #SeasonReview

After Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck, and Chris Pine in films, writer-producers Carlton Cuse (Locke & Key, The Witches of Eastwick (1992), Bates Motel) & Graham Roland (Dark Winds, Fringe, Almost Human) are bringing Tom Clancy‘s most popular character Jack Ryan to the small screen. Not based on a particular Clancy novel, since these books are tied to the geopolitics of the 80S and 90s,…

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thisbibliophiile · 2 years

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Books of 2022 #15

Devil in Ohio by Daria Polatin

#read #books of 2022 #devil in ohio #daria polatin #⭐#awful #and the author was reaponding to arc reviews on goodreads 😂😂😂😂😂😂

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mikelogan · 2 months

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DEVIL IN OHIO (2022) created by Daria Polatin

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thisbibliomaniac · 8 months

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and also 18, 62, & 63

your least favorite book ever

ever????? Devil in Ohio by Daria Polatin

a book with a forgettable plot but amazing characters

ehhhh you really have to have plot for me to even finish a book

a book that actually made you laugh out loud

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Emily Deschanel doesn’t know why Hollywood has continued to tap her to play doctors, but she’s not about to start protesting now.

“I don’t know what screams ‘science’ about me, but I’ll take it,” she tells The Daily Beast’s Obsessed over Zoom with a laugh. “When I got the part on Bones, a friend of mine said, ‘Oh my gosh, that must be your dream role,’ knowing how much I loved learning about forensic science. … Science was my favorite subject when I was a kid, so I’m not going to argue with it. I enjoy it too.”

More than five years after wrapping up her 12-season run as forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan on the beloved Fox procedural drama Bones, Deschanel has returned to television in Netflix’s Devil in Ohio, playing a hospital psychiatrist whose world is thrown into disarray when she decides to shelter a troubled teen escaping a satanic cult.

The role is a departure from the crime/procedural genre that has defined most of Deschanel’s career, which, after Bones, has included a guest spot as Nathan Fillion’s ex-wife in ABC’s The Rookie and a 12-episode arc as a recovering drug addict in TNT’s Animal Kingdom.

For Deschanel, things have a funny way of coming full circle. She first met Daria Polatin—the author, creator and showrunner of Devil in Ohio—in the mid-90s, when they were both studying acting at Boston University. They kept in touch after graduation but eventually lost contact, even if they continued to keep tabs on each other’s work from afar.

So when she was pitched the idea of starring in an eight-episode adaptation of Devil in Ohio last summer, Deschanel was intrigued both by the prospect of reuniting with her former college classmate and exploring what would compel her character, Dr. Suzanne Mathis, to commit “a huge ethical breach” with a patient named Mae (Madeleine Arthur) that puts the rest of her family at risk.

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“Suzanne has some things that happened in her past that make her more susceptible to wanting to save someone like Mae,” Deschanel explains. “I think investigating where Mae comes from all stems from Suzanne’s past and trauma that she experienced herself, and the fact that she never fully dealt with what she experienced. … It’s almost as if Suzanne is trying to save herself through Mae, save her younger self from what she [had once] experienced.”

Deschanel was always one of Polatin’s first picks to bring Suzanne to life. “Emily has incredible emotional and intellectual intelligence that she brings to her roles, in addition to warmth and depth,” Polatin says. “The character of Suzanne is a doctor, a mother, a daughter and a survivor. Emily’s talent and range as an actor allows her to be all these parts of Suzanne.”

Polatin, whose other screenwriting credits include Jack Ryan and Heels, first began working on Devil in Ohio eight years ago, after hearing the true story of a psychiatrist in the Buckeye State who once took in a devil-worshiping teen. “I was fascinated by the idea of someone trying to escape a cult,” says the author-turned-showrunner. “I also love the dynamics of micro-communities. How do other people influence the way we talk, dress, think? And when you’ve grown up in an insular community, can you ever escape your past?”

The insulated nature of Mae’s upbringing was of particular interest to Deschanel, who quips that she has “watched every documentary about cults” that she can find, because she finds the psychology of these groups “really fascinating.” For the show, Polatin and her writers’ room used countless hours of research to create their own cult—down to inventing their history and ideology—and even wrote a manifesto to give to their heads of department.

Even as a self-proclaimed skeptic who doesn’t believe in the devil, Deschanel couldn’t help but feel “creeped out a little bit on set.” The fictional cult is unique because “they don’t have to recruit new members,” she explains. “They just breed them. They just birth new members, so it makes it harder to get information on those types of cults … because they’re less integrated into our daily lives, even less than other cults. They really keep to themselves; they don’t have that outside interaction.”

Regular viewers of Deschanel’s work might notice that some mannerisms have carried over to her performance in Devil in Ohio from certain past characters. For instance, when her character says something assertive in a professional setting (à la Bones’ Dr. Brennan), she will often tip her head slightly to the left with big eyes, almost daring her counterpart to disagree with her in a non-combative way.

While she concedes that Dr. Mathis shares a few professional similarities with Dr. Brennan, Deschanel says she elected to play the former because she felt “different enough” from the latter. “Once you do one character that you’re known for, you’re going to be thought of in that way. I think there are probably actors who want to be considered as doctors and people don’t think of them as doctors, and now I want people to think of me as [something] different than a doctor.”

Nevertheless, in conversation, Deschanel lights up at the first mention of Bones, which she lovingly describes as “the show that launched a thousand friendships.”

For 12 years, the actress played television’s favorite forensic anthropologist, who teams up with FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) to help the Bureau investigate homicides by identifying too-far-gone human remains. With her literal, empirical view of the world complementing his deeply emotive, instinctive nature, Brennan and Booth became one of television’s all-time slow-burn romantic couples—so much so that the actors playing them worked with an acting coach every weekend for the first six seasons to develop the characters’ will-they-or-won’t-they dynamic.

“I miss him so much. I text with him here and there, and it’s been a while since I’ve seen him.”

Deschanel thinks mutual respect on and off the screen was the key to building her partnership with Boreanaz, who taught her the importance of setting a tone on set as the lead of a show. “He always treated me as an equal. He was a big star [on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel], and I was coming from some indie films when we started doing the show, [but] he always treated me as if we were coming from the same place and with great respect, and we built a great friendship over time,” she says. “I miss him so much. I text with him here and there, and it’s been a while since I’ve seen him.”

What does she miss most about working with Boreanaz? “Our inside jokes,” Deschanel says before exclusively revealing one of their many inside jokes to The Daily Beast’s Obsessed. “He’d put a coffee stirrer inside the foam of the interrogation room,” she recalls with a laugh, “so that was always forever known as ‘coffee corner.’ There are just different things that are just really hard to translate … but I guess [I miss] laughing with him on set and him making fun of me maybe. I enjoyed it all.”

Apart from Boreanaz, Deschanel says she is still “texting with different Bones people every week.” She is still close with Michaela Conlin and Tamara Taylor (“We did some amazing cocktail Zooms during the pandemic, and we’re trying to get together,” she reveals with a smile), and recently caught up with a few of the actors who played a rotating group of interns at the fictional Jeffersonian Institute (Pej Vahdat, Eugene Byrd, Carla Gallo, Ignacio Serricchio). The former castmates continue to marvel at how Bones has, in the 17 years since the series premiere, inspired a generation of young women (and men!) to pursue a career in science.

“With Brennan, I never thought [the show] would last as long as it did,” Deschanel admits. “[But] I thought hard about what characters I was putting into people’s living rooms, and I thought about how young girls would be watching it. And being a feminist and always wanting to inspire girls, I loved the fact that the character was in STEM, was unapologetically a genius, and made more money than the men in her life and wasn’t going to bat an eyelash about it.”

Going forward, Deschanel’s professional plans are simple: She wants to tackle projects that will make audiences see her in a new light. “I’d love to do a comedy or two,” she says with a hearty laugh, “and play characters that are really different … so I’m not necessarily looking for anything in particular.”

(When asked if she would like to appear in Yellowjackets opposite her good friend Melanie Lynskey, whom she met on the set of Stephen King’s Rose Red, Deschanel hardly misses a beat: “I would love to work with Melanie! I’m just so excited for her, and it just feels like such a long time coming [that] people are really recognizing her talent. That makes me teary-eyed to think about.”)

Having also worked as a producer and director on Bones, Deschanel says she has been using those experiences to develop projects behind the camera—even if, she admits, producing takes a long time. “Without getting into specifics, a project that I’m trying to get off the ground is a story about a group of women fighting for freedom,” she adds. “I think there’s always going to be a feminist slant to things that I’m attracted to as well.”

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tengomilpalabrasparati · 2 years

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'El diablo en Ohio'

El interés por el true crime en la literatura y el audiovisual se confirma con el estreno de 'El diablo en Ohio', la miniserie de Netflix que adapta la novela de Daria Polatin inspirada en una historia real.

Las adaptaciones literarias, de las que tantas veces hemos tenido la oportunidad de hablar, son una garantía de interés por parte de los espectadores. Es tan habitual que un texto sirva de base para una película o serie que los lectores quieran poner rostro a sus personajes favoritos. Pero, del mismo modo, la independencia de la pieza audiovisual permite comprender la historia sin necesidad de haber pasado previamente por las páginas del libro original. Es por ello que la plataformas apuestan especialmente por este tipo de ficciones y Netflix, experta en descubrir buenas historias tras las tapas de una novela o ensayo, estrena el viernes 2 de septiembre uno de sus últimos hallazgos: "El diablo en Ohio".

Se trata de una miniserie sobre la psiquiatra Suzanne Mathis, quien da refugio a una misteriosa muchacha que escapó de un culto, una decisión que pone el mundo de la doctora de cabeza y amenaza con destruir a su familia. Pero lo más interesante de "El diablo en Ohio" es que esta ficción de 8 episodios recorre una historia narrada en el libro más vendido de Daria Polatin, del mismo título, que se inspira en un caso real.

La miniserie, como la novela, comienzan con la intrusión de una joven en la familia Mathis. Suzanne (Emily Deschanel), que es psiquiatra, ha conectado con el drama personal de Mae, una joven desamparada a la que debe tratar por un trauma.

El objetivo de esta mujer es dar refugio a esta chica hasta que el sistema decida qué será de ella. Pero la cuestión es que Mae (Madeleine Arthur) empieza a desear todo lo que Jules (Xaria Dotson), la hija de la familia, tiene.

A partir de ese momento el recelo llevará a los Mathis a investigar más a Mae, descubriendo que en realidad es una joven huida de una secta dominante en un pueblo cercano. Por si fuera poco, el culto hará todo lo posible por recuperar a Mae.

En el último evento Tudum de Netflix Daria Polatin, creadora y showrunner de la adaptación de su novela, explicó el origen de la historia de su texto y, por tanto, de la miniserie. Según expuso, "el libro se inspiró en hechos reales de una historia que escuchó la productora ejecutiva, Rachel Miller, que en realidad tuvo lugar en Ohio". Por eso encontramos tantas referencias creíbles en "El diablo en Ohio", pues el equipo se molestó en estudiar diversos cultos para crear uno propio para la serie, con un texto al estilo de una "biblia", incluso.

De hecho, durante la producción de los capítulos, supieron de un caso en la Dwell Community Church, que estuvo en el foco mediático por la sospecha de que las actividades religiosas estuviesen tapando un culto satánico.

No puedes perderte esta mini-serie 👍👍

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