MYSTERY OF ALASKA A TV SERIES REVIEW
BY KIRBY DINGLASAN
UNRAVELLING THE
This 2019 eight-episode series adaptation of the first novel of John Green published on 2005, produced by Triple Hill, Production Fake, Empire Production, and Paramount Television and in release by Hulu is a teen drama story was inspired from the author’s high school experience. The story portrays Miles “Pudge” Halter (Charlie Plummer), a teenage boy infatuated with people’s last words. “I go to seek a great perhaps” is his favorite quote attributed to the French poet Francois Rabelais. This lets him uncover more of life’s possibilities by deciding to leave his normal life in Florida and enroll at the Culver Creek Preparatory High School, a boarding school in Alabama. There he met his roommate Chip Martin (Denny Love) who is a nerd connoisseur in planning—like a soldier—of revengeful pranks around the school, mutated to be called “The Colonel”. The Colonel introduced Pudge to his friends, Takumi Hikohito (Jay Lee) and Alaska Young (Kristine Froseth). Since their first meet-up, gorgeous but emotionally unstable Alaska became special to Pudge. With her collected books, Alaska is dreaming to build a book shop that she will later call My Life’s Library. The better Pudge understands her story and attitude, the stronger it
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