Netflix’s Hillbilly Elegy, based on J.D. Vance’s novel of ... Bev is a hodgepodge of people and problems. Bev is a mess, and Adams is always acting the part — if not overacting to the ...

The popularity of "Hillbilly Elegy" reflects that. One of the things we tried to do in "Appalachian Reckoning" was to emphasize photos of the real Appalachia, with the diversity of the people ...

Netflix J.D.'s girlfriend in Hillbilly Elegy is also based on the real Usha (played in the movie ... So it's very much a term of endearment for the people who use it about themselves and their ...

Related: See the Cast of Hillbilly Elegy Side-by-Side with the Real People They Play in the Netflix Drama “This region is huge, and there’s all kinds of people here; people of different ...

I started reading JD Vance's 2016 memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" on election day ... a town of less than a thousand people nestled into the Greenbrier River valley just southeast of the coalfields.

Critics already took “Hillbilly Elegy” to the woodshed, and now that it’s streaming on Netflix, fans want in on the fun. Following this year’s “The Devil All the Time,” the streamer ...

It’s helped us all grow.” My hope, my family’s hope, is that when people watch “Hillbilly Elegy,” they recognize the characters are real people. Even with their flaws, I want people to ...

The woke whine that such coverage implies that these are the “real ... people voted for Donald Trump. When critic Sarah Jones, an Appalachian by upbringing, argues that “Hillbilly Elegy ...

Following its release, he became a Republican senator for the state. Scroll on to see the Hillbilly Elegy cast alongside the real-life people they portray on screen. Lacey Terrell/NETFLIX; Astrid ...

Nigel Smith is the Senior Movies News Editor for PEOPLE. He is an experienced culture ... a unique experience making her latest drama, Hillbilly Elegy. The award-winning actress stars alongside ...

If Trump VP pick J.D. Vance's memoir sparked your interest in Appalachian literature, read these books next Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE ... memoir Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir ...