Netflix's Lord of the Flies Show Finally Answers the Novel's Biggest Question After 72 Years

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Netflix's highly praised 2026 four-part limited series adaptation of Lord of the Flies faithfully brings William Golding's harrowing classic novel about marooned children to the screen, a quintessential part of modern literary education. Set in the 1950s during a fictional global nuclear conflict, a plane evacuating the schoolboys is shot down while flying over the Pacific Ocean, leaving the children stranded on an uninhabited and isolated tropical island, without any adult supervision.