It’s the same thing with Jud. Book-Jud quickly becomes Louis’ friend and a friend of the family, and he’s supposed to seem like a really amiable, sprightly old guy (King straight-up tells us in the first paragraph that he’s the kind of guy that Louis wished had been his father). That’s why it’s such a tragedy when the…

I just saw it. I don’t think it even gets the set-up right. For some reason, they shoot Jud and Jud’s house in the most unsettling, creepy way possible 90% of the time, and you never get a sense that he’s formed any kind of bond with Louis that the Burial Ground later exploits to share the dark secret. Yet the movie…

The one thing that really sticks with me from this book (which is maybe the only good King novel I’ve never reread) is the mounting sense of dread as you feel Louis creep towards an understandable but catastrophic choice. He’s a basically good man undone by grief, his own flaws, and (particularly in the book) the aura…

I don’t want to bum you out or spoil anything, but there’s minimal wendigo content, so don’t hope for much there.

I consider it the best novel SK has ever written...for the same reasons that it is certainly the most painful, punishing story.
It’s literally the only work of fiction that I’ve ever thought certain people (new parents, the recently bereaved) need to be protected from.

Same. I was a teenager but now that I’m a parent it would be too close to home. The brutality of the book is that everyone with kids has had close calls that could have ended in tragedy, and sometimes do. Changing the child who is killed is interesting but such a huge part of the novel’s gut punch comes from the…

I have a theory that both this book and Cujo were kind of symptoms of the phase of life that King was in at this point, i.e. doing about every sort of drug that he could get his hands on. A lot of his work—IT, The Tommyknockers, Christine—is overly-long and/or has problematic aspects (the infamous pre-teen gangbang in …

That’s pretty much what King felt about it as well. I read it before I had children. I’m not sure if I could re-read it now.

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This is all true, but for me, the book’s relentless downward momentum was its biggest strength. I started reading it as a teenager, right after it appeared in paperback ... and finished it that very same night. (Didn’t help at all that it was the first King book I’d ever read.) That sleepless morning, anything that…

Unfortunately, this review sums up my reaction perfectly. He nailed it. Excellent and very thoughtful review.

It was perfect. I’d hate to see them try a second season.

I thought the scene with Nadia and the Rabbi’s secretary of whatever was amazing. It isn’t often in pop culture that you see women cast as Orthodox/Conservative Jews who really look like women from those communities

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I just finished it and thought it was great, but I was really struck by how great all the smaller roles (even though I still doubt Daya as a PhD candidate.)

Fyi I’d definitely read all the episode reviews if someone wrote them!

It is bizarre that on the show I totally buy Elizabeth Rodriguez as her mother, despite them being basically the same age

This comes out of left field for me, and I’d only noticed the show’s title on TV primere date schedules for 2019, without knowing what it’s about.

I love Jawbox and I love their cover, but saying aloud, where Tori Amos fans can hear, that someone else did a better job with a Tori Amos song is one of the more foolish uses of internet.

Alex, you definitely need to check out Amos' albums From the Choirgirl Hotel (the first time she recorded an entire record with a full band and her followup to Boys for Pele) and the all-out glam rock American Doll Posse. It sounds like you listened to Pele and stopped there.