I'm not Okay with this and Netflix tendency to change the original message of the source (spoilers))

I and not okay with this is the new Charles Forsman comic adaptation after The End of the F***ing World was such a huge hit.

It's a coming of age story about a girl, who already has to deal with the death of her dad but also weird phenomena around her, later finding out she had psychic powers she can't control, ending in weird situations when she hurt people.

The thing is that in the original graphic novel said powers are always made ambiguous and easily explained as coicidences that she sees as more for a copying mechanism.

For example in the comic she's convinced she killed her friend's a-hole boyfriend because she started to cause him nose bleeds when she never angry at him, with him dying after the last one. In reality his autopsy reveals he had an exploding aneurism and that he had them for a long time, making his nose bleeds a telling symptoms.

And then on the show.... his head just explodes

I don't really care of shows change things for the sake of adaptation, but here it just changed the whole concept. It isn't really a girl that could be imagining that everything bad that happens on her life it's supernatural and it turns out into edgy 11 from Stranger Things.

Other changes include converting a shadow that represents her mental state into something mysterious that could be stalking her or adding more scenes with her powers. Also the comic is really short and I can't tell if they originally planned to stretch it too much because season 2 was cancelled or at least postponed because of COVID.

What do you think about changes on other series? I've heard that The Umbrella Academy is also different but I can't compare because I haven't read the comic.