If you love Life is Strange, you probably have mixed feelings about the TV adaptation coming to Prime Video. (I certainly do.) On the one hand, it’s exciting that one of the best narrative-adventure games ever made is getting a new lease of life, but on the other hand, Amazon hasn’t always been the best when it comes to handling female-led TV series. Paper Girls, we hardly knew ye.

However, the dial was quickly turned to “frothing-at-the-mouth-hype” by the news that Karyn Kusama (Jennifer’s Body, The Invitation, and two episodes of Yellowjackets) is set to direct the first two episodes of Life is Strange.

Amazon’s adaptation will dramatize the original video game, in which photography student Max Caulfield (Tatum Grace Hopkins) discovers she can rewind time after saving the life of her childhood best friend, Chloe Price (Maisy Stella). While Max and Chloe’s relationship is at the heart of the video........

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