The Beach

And actually, there's this section in the book where Beck has agreed to come out and be a producer on Escape.

And before she even gets to location or meets any of the contestants on the beach, she's given the playbook of this is what the story arc's going to be.

This is what the contestants are going to do in each episode.

This is the relationship they're going to have to one another.

So he wanted to kind of like show what it was really like.

So I felt like I was part of a tradition, you know, updating that with like more of a TV focus.

The Beach by Alex Garland is another book that I really loved where that too is about people kind of like seeking the, it's really about backpacker culture, but it's about people kind of like seeking like the furthest and the most remote experience as a way of like somehow reclaiming some kind of like authenticity and truth by like going to like the island that nobody has ever heard of.

And then, you know, Burnham Wood by Eleanor Catton is a book that I loved.

give me give me fucking immediately give me uh And that film would end Danny Boyle's and Alex Garland's relationship, their creative partnership.

I mean, it got started on 28 Days Later, right? That was their first? The Beach was their first.

The Beach was their first.

Of course it was, because it was based on Alex Garland's book about him trying to be a journalist around Southeast Asia.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We did this when we covered every Alex Garland movie.

Exactly.

They worked together, they did The Beach, and then was this their next thing? then it was 28 days later then it was 28 days later

You know, I ...

It's been, it's been, it's been one thing after the other here in the Strunk household, and I thought why don't me and Liv just [laughs] head over to the beach.

[laughs] Yeah, I was, um, I was wondering why those seagulls were, were squawking overhead.

Squawk.

No.

Uh, yeah, so we have, we have a couple of, of beachy reads today.

We got, uh, we got, um, we got Far Cry 3 and, uh, Alex Garland's The Beach, um, both of which were, I will say, and then, and then Liv I'll, I'll let you say your initial thoughts, but, like, I thought they were, uh, super interesting and way more intense than I expected.

Oh, yeah.