His Dark Materials

Three series that adapt the whole trilogy, and one film that adapted the first book and then stopped.

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Where to start with His Dark Materials

Three series in order and the trilogy is finished, which is the thing the 2007 film never managed. The one trap is that the film covers the same first book, so it is not an entry point.

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    Eight episodes adapting Northern Lights, published in America as The Golden Compass. Nothing before it, and its opening scene is quietly taken from a much later book.

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    Seven episodes rather than eight, because a standalone episode about Lord Asriel was left unfinished when the pandemic shut production down. It adapts The Subtle Knife.

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    His Dark Materials, series 3 His Dark Materials

    Eight episodes finishing The Amber Spyglass, which means the whole trilogy is on screen. That is the entire reason to take this version over the film.

Then what? That is all twenty-three episodes. The Golden Compass is a separate adaptation of the same first book from 2007; scripts for its two sequels were commissioned and shelved within a year, and it shares no cast or continuity with the series. Watch it afterwards as a curiosity or not at all. No adaptation of The Book of Dust has been commissioned.

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The Series

  • His Dark Materials 2019, 3 seasons, 23 episodes

The Abandoned Film

  • The Golden Compass 2007

The novels

  • La Belle Sauvage 2017
  • Northern Lights 1995
  • The Subtle Knife 1997
  • The Amber Spyglass 2000
  • The Secret Commonwealth 2019
  • The Rose Field 2025

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