{"id":375938,"date":"2026-04-01T05:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/375938\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T05:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:47:09","slug":"catherine-prasifka-hbos-harry-potter-feels-far-too-dark-its-supposed-to-be-for-children-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/375938\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine Prasifka: HBO\u2019s Harry Potter feels far too dark \u2013 it\u2019s supposed to be for children, after all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Reboot appears to have adopted HBO\u2019s signature gritty tone\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alastair Stout, Dominic McLaughlin and Arabella Stanton as Ron, Harry and Hermione in new Harry Potter series. Photo: HBO\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ry Potter HBO still.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Alastair Stout, Dominic McLaughlin and Arabella Stanton as Ron, Harry and Hermione in new Harry Potter series. Photo: HBO<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The teaser trailer for HBO\u2019s new Harry Potter series opens with ominous music, a voiceover declaring \u201cI told you, you are a normal boy\u201d and shots of young Harry fleeing from bullies and curled up in his cupboard under the stairs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The colours are notably dark and very HBO. People who haven\u2019t seen the original movies or read the books might wonder what\u2019s going on when an unnamed Hagrid mentions Hogwarts, but that\u2019s OK. I\u2019m not sure there\u2019s anyone on the planet who is unfamiliar with the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reboot appears to have adopted HBO\u2019s signature gritty tone Alastair Stout, Dominic McLaughlin and Arabella Stanton as Ron,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[124969,93,61,60,270],"class_list":{"0":"post-375938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-catherine-prasifka","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}