Hand to god, when the screen on the all-knowing Morpho machine flashed up the words “Are you ready for the next stage?” at the end of The Big Door Prize season one, our answer at the time was an emphatic “No.” We (brag) texted a successful screenwriter friend asking them to watch it and see if they found it as embarrassingly folksy and cheap as we did. We didn’t read the novel it was based on, but the vibe we got about it from watching the show is “What if John Green tried to write something... Read this story
