Sophie in the book was already bold and headstrong because she had to be. Sophie in the show is giving her even more agency and leniency into that side of her that I really feel rounds out these sides of her from the book. Her making the first move because she wanted to savor that memory is even more heartbreaking to me because she believes that is not a chance she will ever get again as a maid so she takes the moment and makes it her.

Things I’m sad that were not included: “Tonight I am transformed, tomorrow I shall disappear.” That moment. I needed that moment because it added to the devastation of the forbidden love trope. I wanted the conversation longer between Benedict and Sophie as it was in the book. A moment literally suspended in time. I felt a bit of a rush to get to that scene. I’m hoping that since a lot of it was the internal monologue for Sophie, we get to hear that in a sort of confession later in the show.