![]() ![]() ![]() But because true horror is never about monsters but instead about how humans behave in response to them, the series places emphasis on how people can come undone by hysteria and delusions. Here’s why.ĭeviating from King’s original 1980 novella, the show borrows its initial premise: A scenic Maine town (“Bridgeville” in the show, “Bridgton” in the novella) is engulfed by a mysterious fog, which obscures a hostile presence feeding on the townspeople. The Mist is the sci-fi television series you need to watch before it leaves Netflix on October 23. But just as fast food goes down cheap and easy, so too does this underseen gem. It’s far from perfect, or even just plain good. This didn’t ultimately pan out, but out of the effort came 10 resoundingly solid episodes of creepy TV, in which stupid, deserving people suffer the consequences of their idiocy. Hey, did you know there was a major streaming adaptation of The Stand with a star-studded cast last year? No? Me neither.īut in 2017, one King adaptation was the now-defunct cable channel Spike’s last shot at network success. Though famed author Stephen King has no problem topping literary best-seller lists, TV and movies based on his works have never achieved quite the same level of success.įor every IT, Carrie, and The Shining (which King has vocally disowned, for what it’s worth), there are many more duds and flubs, from the 2017’s abysmal The Dark Tower to the forgotten Sleepwalkers. ![]()
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