Netflix's Green Eggs and Ham successfully stretches out the iconic Dr. Seuss book

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"Even at their simplest, Dr. Seuss stories are carefully crafted bridges," says Steve Greene. "For children figuring out how to read or anyone taking their first swings at the English language, the legendary author’s picture books are handy springboards into a bigger world. So it makes sense that Green Eggs and Ham, a Netflix animated series based on one of Seuss’ most quintessential works, functions in largely the same way for newcomers to TV. Extrapolating out the few dozen words of the original story to a 13-episode season, creator Jared Stern manages to maintain the book’s elastic spirit, in all its visual and linguistic tricks. In the process, Green Eggs and Ham the series becomes the kind of show that could be a fundamental entry point for younger viewers learning how to follow a broader, episodic tale." ALSO: At a cost of $6 million per episode, Green Eggs and Ham is gorgeous -- and the most expensive animated series ever made.