“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.” The opening line of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez’s 1967 masterpiece, is among the most highly regarded in contemporary literature. As is the novel itself. The story follows seven generations of the Buendía Family as they grapple with the cyclical nature of history within the fictional town of Macondo. A landmark work of magical realism, the extraordinary events that occur in Márquez’s tale have always seemed screen-ready—and now, a decade after the author’s death, a streaming series has arrived. At the request of Márquez’s family the show was shot in Colombia and stars Colombian actors, including Claudio Cataño, Marco González, and Leonardo Soto. Adapting the world of Macondo to the screen is no simple task, but the series has done the book proud. —Jack Sullivan