This however, I don’t know what this is and why they’re doing it in this TV series.

I remember somewhere in the book King writing that scientists, engineers, etc., would gravitate towards Flagg because they crave order. That never made much sense to me as a description of how math/science people view the world, but more importantly for the story it doesn’t seem consistent with Flagg attracting people…

And if you had a party

Charlotte seems like the most likely Republican, but Samantha seems like the most likely Trump voter. Or, at least, after Trump won she’d be angling for PR work with pro-Trump folks and horrifying people at brunch with the details of her spectacular one-night-stand with Michael Cohen.

It’s kind of hilarious—Marsden’s several years older than Stu Redman is in the books, and than Gary Sinise was when he played Stu in 1993, but he’s just too freakishly boyish and handsome to pull off “middle-aged beer drinker.”

Yeah, they aren’t focusing much at all on the fact that Harold’s actually pretty capable of navigating the apocalypse. The way they changed the roadblock shootout is a case in point. I think steering away from the amount of detail King included there probably made sense, but in the book Harold’s not humiliated or…

Yeah, I agree. It wouldn’t surprise me if we get, in the next episode, the dream/vision of Flagg that Harold had before the scene where he tells Fran he loves her and she doesn’t reciprocate.

The only thing I can say was a nice touch, not from the book, was Weizak’s dying words to Harold, trying to get his buddy to safety. Too bad there’s nothing to explore there.

Maybe I’m just remembering the book or previous miniseries with rose-colored glasses, but having Nadine show up and just exposition dump the whole Flagg plan to Harold in 5 minutes is the worst kind of writing! I remember her seduction of him being much more subtle, and also slightly anxious knowing how fine the line…

The title’s a bit of a mouthful but true fans just call it AJaDTat2012WGAP:AER/GIfWGAwBNiYC for short.

This is a fascinating failure though in a vacuum because it is completely tied to the disastrous decision to not tell this story linear. The actors are all name actors, the material is the same, but they have completely killed character development and suspense for no positive reason.

I had the same thought about the flashbacks—it theoretically could have been a good way to deal with the way the narrative slows down once everyone’s in Boulder. But now that I’m seeing how this is unfolding I think the better solution would have been to tell the story chronologically, but cut the Boulder stuff down…

“Becki had an inappropriate personal relationship with this person, something in which I was not involved.”

“This whole thing could have been avoided—”

Hey, he looks great for his age!

John Huston — Daniel Day-Lewis

If the dates on the various wikis are accurate then she’d be just a little younger than her mother was at the start of A Game of Thrones. And by that point Catelyn was a mother of five, with a couple of her kids old enough to be married off.

That reminds me—for some reason I keep coming back to how weird it is that, if Arya Stark were aging at the same rate time passes in the real world, she’d be in her early/mid-30s by now. At this point Arya’s revenge storyline is dragging across multiple generations out here in the real world, while only a few years…

The problem with this book series is that GRRM had a good first act of the story - the first 3 books - and then just lost the plot.

I think you mean “French”