We're calling it, these 6 TV shows and movies were much better than the book they were based on.

All anyone is talking about right now is the new Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni film It Ends With Us. Based on the extremely popular Coleen Hoover novel with the same name, it got us thinking about the films and TV shows that ended up being more popular than the book they were based on. 

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It Ends With Us.

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This one isn't my personal recommendation, because I haven't read the book (yet). However, it was the catalyst of this list. After the film, in the cinema bathroom, all I could hear were women discussing how they thought the film portrayed the dark themes of the film in a way that they had never seen before. 

They were saying that they thought both the main characters being older was better, and that they found Blake Lively's character Lily more believable. 

The novel, however, is huge on book-tok, so I'm sure many would disagree that this belongs on this list.

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The Devil Wears Prada.

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I said what I said. Not a lot of people remember that The Devil Wears Prada was based on a novel. I however, do. 

In a lot of ways the book touches on themes that the film doesn't. Andy's friend Lily was a more prominent character, Emily and Nate were both a little bit nicer, and Andy was very cool. 

We also learn more of Miranda's backstory, which helps us sympathise, or even empathise with her. Knowing how she grew up gives us a better understanding of her behaviour towards Andy.

In the film, however Miranda is quite literally a devil boss. Meryl Streep plays her so brilliantly that whenever I rewatch it, I just want to see her showing appreciation and approval of Andy. 

I prefer this version of the story, because it makes us see Miranda through Andy's lens, as a really mean (but super cool) boss, which I think is more reflective of reality.

Sex and the City.

Candace Bushnell (left) Image source: Lenny Furman/Getty & Tom Kingston/WireImage - HBO.

I can acknowledge that it's unfair to include Sex and the City on this list because the material is so different. The Sex and the City series was based on the author of the Sex and the City book, rather than the book itself. Like Carrie, Candace Bushnell is a journalist who had a column in the New York Observer. 

In the past, Bushnell has said that Carrie is an exaggeration of herself, and that her column wasn't always taken directly from her actual life. The original Sex and the City book was a series of essays taken from Bushnell's columns.

The series, on the other hand, makes Bushnell's exaggerated alter ego, Carrie, the protagonist, and turns the women Bushnell wrote about in her column into the core characters of the show. 

It's a very loose adaptation of the book, but every millennial and Gen X woman is grateful for Bushnell for being the catalyst of a show that became ingrained in #girlhood culture. 

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The Notebook.

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I'm not a huge Nicholas Sparks fan but I did read The Notebook, and I enjoyed it. However, nothing could top Ryan Gosling's and Rachel McAdams' chemistry. I remember watching it for the first time as a teenager and it genuinely made me believe that this would be my exact future. 

Also that ending scene really did something to me that nothing has ever been able to recreate in terms of emotional distress (and I mean that in a good way). 

Bridgerton.

Image source: Liam Daniel/Netflix.

I've started reading the Bridgerton books after watching the first few seasons of the show and I have to say, although the books are a great pastime, the show just takes the characters to a whole new level. 

The intersection of period drama and diversity is something I've never seen before, and the show does it so well. The characters feel more complex and the storytelling works brilliantly through a modern day lens. 

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging.

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Yes, I know it's super rogue to bring up Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging but it is my favourite film of all time and also one of my very favourite books. However, the book is called Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging. 

The trauma I have around being 11 years old and having to ask my mum to get me a book with that title for Christmas is something I'll never recover from. So yes, I'm biased, and yes, I'm picking the movie over the book for the name change alone. 

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Feature image: Sony, Twentieth Century Fox, Tom Kingston/WireImage - HBO