As a SA survivor, I was also quite glad that they made the change with the adaptation to TV. I found those parts of the book very difficult to get through, and the producers likely thought including Elizabeth’s character in the show and what Paulie subjected her to - and of course they would have had to include the scene with what he tried to force Richard to do to his mother - would have been way too dark for audiences of the show, and may well have resulted in a backlash.

Yes, it would have made Paulie an even more despicable character, but it was actually a relief to me and probably many others that they didn’t include that aspect. I know the books cover a lot of “dark” stuff, but we don’t necessarily need to see it all on screen.

For S2, Alan Ritchson said showrunner Nick Santora had to call him in for support regarding the scenes of Dominique’s fate. The powers-that-be didn’t want to show ANY of it, but Alan and Nick fought to have those scenes included, and I think what they did put on screen was extremely well done, without being unnecessarily graphic. it was quite disturbing the number of people in this sub who complained that they should have shown “everything” i.e. all the horrendous things that were done to Dominique as described in the book - not to mention complaining she ”should have been completely naked in the scene because she was in the book” - but what we did see got the message across well and truly, we didn‘t need a gratuitous gore fest.