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Netflix Captures the Doom and Dread of <em>Watership Down</em>

The series taps into the timeliness (and timelessness) of stories about oppressive political systems.
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“In the beginning,” says a dream-reverberant voice in the first seconds of Netflix’s , “Frith made the world. And he made the stars by scattering his droppings across the sky.” And in the beginning, Richard Adams, who was working at the time for the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, told his children a story about some rabbits. Some of the rabbits were nice; some of the rabbits were

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