I agree, but I’d go a step farther and say that they blew it with every character’s backstory. This story lives or dies because of how you relate to the characters—good or bad. Even the “vallain” characters are written in a way that even though you know that what they are doing is horrible, you understand why they…

Just as I posted in this same thread:

Seriously? He killed Bobby Terry in an elevator? There’s some key scenes in the book he’s taken a lot of care crafting, like the moments before Dayna Jurgens met Flagg segueing into the actual meeting - the execution which they also seemed to have botched going by Flagg’s ‘whatever’ shrug after she dies. I’ll let the…

Ironically they dont show the murder of the Judge at all but show the death of Bobby Terry, opposite of the novel. In the novel Flagg tells BT to kill the judge but dont damage the head as he wants to send it back to Boulder as a message. The judge goads him and BT loses control and destoys his face entirely. He is so…

Making Harold Lauder the de facto main character has been the most baffling decision in a series of dozens of baffling decisions the creators of this mini-series have made. He’s had the most screen time out of pretty much the entire cast, if I’m not mistaken.

I mean....c’mon....

Stu is portrayed in the book as a bit of a redneck with a heart of gold and innate leadership skills. That is absent entirely here.

Like, read the room, CBS. .

The book was written in 1978

So far, this series has been an amazing exercise in seemingly regurgitating scenes from a beloved book, but without any notion of WHY those scenes are important to the overall narrative.

Let’s use Larry Underwood’s early arc in NYC as an example. Larry is portrayed as a man on the sway between Good & Evil. He’s a…