For an audience that grew up with those shows, “Looking For Alaska” creates the perfect wave of nostalgia, one that will send those memories flooding back to that time when everything was life and death and your very being was defined by things like your love of specific music or book or art. The soundtrack for “Looking For Alaska” is a mix of era-popular songs-like J-Kwon’s “Tipsy,” The Darkness’s “I Believe in a Thing Called Love,” and a novelty dance song that provides such an amazing moment to witness that you shouldn’t have it ruined for you-and the indie rock heavy original soundtracks of Schwartz’s three biggest shows of the era, “The O.C.,” “Chuck”, and “Gossip Girl”. The series’ backdrop also allows Schwartz-by way of his regular music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas-to return to a place he knows very well: the defining music of the aughts. It’s an affectation that falls in line with the concept that makes “Looking For Alaska” work as well as it does (both as a story and as a miniseries): “Looking For Alaska” realizes that, for a teen, every single action and choice is the most important, life-altering action and choice you can make. In the grand Dawsonian (as in, “Dawson’s Creek”) legacy of teen drama characters, there is a lot of dialogue in “Looking For Alaska” that is bound to make you say “That’s not how teenagers talk.” On top of that, they also talk a lot-perhaps too much-until the moment before the series’ major tragedy, the moment where words could have possibly saved their friend from going off into the night. “Looking For Alaska” is a story that fits right into Schwartz and Savage’s teen drama ethos. This is far from the duo’s first adaptation-“Gossip Girl,” “The Carrie Diaries,” and Marvel’s “Runaways” all exist-but it is impressive just how much the source material and the finished product makes it feel like their own creation. Now it’s finally here, and despite the story originally being written by someone else entirely, “Looking For Alaska” fits Schwarz and Savage like a glove. Then in May 2018, it was announced that Schwartz would be writing the eight-episode limited series for Hulu, executive producing alongside his Fake Empire partner and longtime collaborator Stephanie Savage. In fact, in 2005, it was set to be adapted by him as a feature film but even after writing a screenplay that Green reportedly loved, the movie remained in development hell, with constant delays for years.
Based on the 2005 John Green novel of the same name, “ Looking For Alaska” was made to be adapted for television by Josh Schwartz.
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