![]() If you do the math, all the returning characters who were 20 in the late 1970s should be 10 years older. As a rubber-stamp of authenticity, the author's name is enshrined in the title: Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, although he's more of an executive producer (as is original star Laura Linney). Now Netflix has assembled the same main characters and thrown them all together in contemporary San Francisco where Anna Madrigal is still presiding over her ramshackle home in Barbary Lane (recreated on a soundstage in, of all places, Brooklyn). The next three novels, which culminated in the departure from San Francisco of its female protagonist Mary Ann Singleton, were never adapted. It was a British broadcaster, Channel 4, which began the project of adapting them as dramas in 1993, joined for the second series by Showtime who did the third on their own in 2001. ![]()
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