Kya (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Tom (David Strathairn) in Columbia Pictures' WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING. But it plays more like a glossy Nicholas Sparks-flavored melodrama than a tale that actually has any meaningful connection to the messy real world - wetland or otherwise. Alas, it’s also evidence of all the texture and grit this swamp-set coming-of-age story lacks.īased on Delia Owens’ wildly popular best-selling novel of the same name, "Where the Crawdads Sing" is ostensibly a story of struggle, survival and tenacity - one where a young woman named Kya (breakout "Normal People" star Daisy Edgar-Jones) grows like a flower through concrete in a harsh 1950s and ’60s world, despite the best efforts of a callous and often cruel community. It’s a scientific miracle that long-hair-havers in humid climates the world over would surely love to study.
It’s the fact that despite living in a literal marsh, her hair never suffers from a modicum of frizz - never more than a few stray strands artfully mussed like she’s in a Garnier Fructis commercial. No, it’s not her ability to raise herself in the wilderness of North Carolina, nor her impressive talent for sketching the natural world. Kya (Daisy Edgar-Jones) in Columbia Pictures' WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING.Ĭhicago - The protagonist of "Where the Crawdads Sing" seems to have a superpower.
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