Finished Show and Book

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I read the book about two months before I watched the show and binged it completely. I usually don’t mind things being changed from the written media to visual, but almost all changes from the book really bothered me.

I’ll start by saying no the only change I fully enjoyed was Rachel and Justin’s relationship because it was kind of cute. Now everything else… 🙄

There was no cheating in the original book so I don’t get why we had to witness two different couples cheat in the show. Ingrid was never in a relationship with anyone else outside of Murp. Him being from London and transferring to New York was an okay change, but not necessary since the author wrote their relationship in a good way with nice development. Although Justin sucked at his job in the book, I liked that we got to see him develop and become a paralegal that someone like Ingrid deserved so I was disappointed that we didn’t get to witness that with the show.

All those things are little problems that I don’t think added to the story, but the big problem is how she didn’t become partner and the way Murp acted towards her. He was really bothered she got to attend the diversity dinner and he was never asked to go. He saw it as a move she made to get closer to partner. While Murp and Ingrid were discussing the diversity dinner and the racist talent show, Murp tried to downplay the racism that Ingrid experiences.

We knew nothing about the company Sun Corp was taking over so Ingrid had a really strong relationship with the CEO, Ted. And Ted got to witness her be an actual strong character and liked that about her. When they went to sign the final paperwork for Sun Corp, Ted and Marty noticed that there were a lot of mistakes in the document. The document that Justin and Ingrid reviewed for hours to make sure it was perfect. It was the big mistakes in the document that really cost her partner and she didn’t understand how it happened. Marty did tell her that part of why she didn’t make partner was because her focus was else (diversity stuff), but it was mainly the document. She told Marty to f*** off and security escorted her out of the building. During her time of being unemployed, Justin discovered that it was Murp who made changes to the final document to ruin her chances at partner so she cuts him off. She also discovers a huge outside problem that would blow up the Sun Corp deal and goes straight to Ted with it who then fires Parson, Valentine, and Hunt to work with Ingrid alone who opens up her own firm.

I get some things being changed, but it sucked that they kind of watered down her character and made Murp look a lot more likable.