I love MILDRED PIERCE. All of them. Somehow or other I grew up having never seen the Crawford film. When I heard what HBO was coming out with, I read the novel and thoroughly loved it. Then I watched the Crawford, which has some of the elements of the story, but is really its own fabulous fast-talking-noir-ish thing. Which is fine. But the Todd Haynes mini-series really floated my boat, and I've since bought the Blu-ray.