In his magnum opus, One Hundred Years of Solitude, the Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez turned a century-long history lesson into a mesmerizing read. His prose is rhythmic and rambling. He spins tales both mundane and magical.

Filmmakers Laura Mora and Alex García López clearly have great reverence for the work, and perhaps it needs this literal translation to screen.

Based on Gabriel García Márquez's 1967 masterpiece, the Colombian drama follows several generations of the Buendía family and the fictional town of Macondo.

Such is the reverence with which Gabriel García Márquez’s Nobel prize-winning novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is held that surely trying to turn its towering themes and magic-realist imagination into a TV series would have to be a fool’s game.

One Hundred Years of Solitude is a beautiful, deliberate literary adaptation that only the streaming era could produce.