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# Netflix is developing a series based on Alix Harrow's The Everlasting
- URL: https://www.andrewliptak.com/alix-harrow-the-everlasting-netflix-fantasy-streaming-series/
- Published: 2026-06-23T19:04:55.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-23T19:05:13.000Z
- Description: The series is now in development
- Author: Andrew Liptak
- Tags: News, Books, Fantasy, Streaming Services, Television

One of my [favorite reads of 2025](https://www.andrewliptak.com/science-fiction-fantasy-horror-best-books-2025/) was Alix E. Harrow's novel [*The Everlasting*](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9781250799081?ref=andrewliptak.com). It's a great fantasy about a historian named Owen Mallory who's tasked by the leader of the fascist-leaning Dominion, to write the definitive origin story for his nation. There's a bit of a twist: he's sent back in time to accompany the nation's heroine, Una Everlasting, to witness her exploits and contemporaneously write the legend. 

Things get a little complicated from there: he falls in love with Una, and begins to realize that there's more to his mission than he was told: by observing and documenting her story, he's changing and transforming it, often to suit the needs of the future that he came from – a future that's slipping more and more into totalitarianism. 

[Origin storiesAlix E. Harrow’s The Everlasting is a powerful book about a nation’s origin story and how such narratives can be manipulated![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2c/d7/2cd7d323-e6ed-4666-8092-07e380dbdf2a/content/images/icon/54948818650_d4d892e6db_w-2ea208b5-e8bd-41fc-93ef-e3845c1fff04.jpg)Transfer OrbitAndrew Liptak![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2c/d7/2cd7d323-e6ed-4666-8092-07e380dbdf2a/content/images/thumbnail/IMG_7948-ac2debc8-e8de-472b-b711-ea47a7981d12.jpeg)](https://www.andrewliptak.com/alix-harrow-the-everlasting-fantasy-time-travel-book-review/)

As I noted in my review, it's a book about how origin stories and history can be manipulated for political gain, and as we're approaching the semiquincentennial anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, it's a book with a message that's worth reflecting on. 

And maybe soon, a streaming series. [*Variety* reports](https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/the-everlasting-tv-show-netflix-1236787806/?ref=andrewliptak.com) that Netflix is putting a series in development based on the novel. Screenwriter Daphne Ferraro (*Dark,* *Maxton Hall*) has been tapped to write and produce the project, with Harrow serving as Executive Producer. Over on Bluesky, Harrow [expressed her excitement](https://bsky.app/profile/alixeharrow.bsky.social/post/3moxtk46aec2d?ref=andrewliptak.com): "i keep trying to find a chill or ironic way to post this and there is simply nothing chill about it!!! ahhhhHHHhhhhhhhh!!!!!"

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There's a long way to go before – or if – this ends up on Netflix's platform. Development is the first step in a long process that takes the story and begins the process of turning it into a show: there might be a writer's room to generate scripts or concept art, details and elements that will provide the streaming service with enough information about the show to get it to a point where it can be greenlit and put into production. 

But: it's a first step, and it's exciting an exciting development for the process. It's a fine novel, and I can see this playing out well as a series. Hopefully, it'll make its way through the gauntlet and onto screens without too many issues.