Fire weasels? I thought it was the ice weasels that come at night...

Why “concern” about buying an out-of-warranty Mitsubishi? I wasn’t aware they were bad cars.

Ha! Be that as it may, I can’t think of any other way to describe such a silly pandering statement...

Yeah, they’d have to adapt that aspect to the digital age, but the rest of it would still work - violently shutting down broadcasters, assassinating journalists, shooting those who attempt to break quarantine and so on. The whole point of the first half of the book is that the US government and the military are villain…

Come to think of it, they did at least add one disturbing element not found in the book, having Stu portrayed by a guy in his late 40s and having Fran played by a much, much younger woman who looks like a high school senior. The scene with the two of them together at the coffee wagon and Fran pregnant really looked…

Yeah, that’s got to be one of the all-time stupidest attempts at PC virtue signaling I’ve ever read. Is he not aware that many deaf people get cochlear implants to “fix” their disability? I’ll make sure to tell that guy in my neighborhood in the wheelchair and my deaf coworker that they’re both horrible bigots and…

Indeed. I’ve only watched the first episode so far, and even apart from the pointless flashback structure that just adds unnecessary confusion and destroys any character development arc, I’m really puzzled by why they elected to remove the horror elements. I mean, literally everything scary is gone — Stu’s experiences…

And, of course, their discovery that it was a military blockade that caused the massive backup, and the US Army had been gunning down anyone who tried to leave NYC...

So Larry and Rita don’t escape NY through the Lincoln Tunnel? Once again minimizing the fascist evil of the US government and diluting one of the scarier elements of the story. Is this ass-kissing of the military done to suck up to right-wingers and Trumpers, or just incompetent storytelling and utter lack of…

mmm...I don’t know that JK Rowling believing that consideration for trans women’s rights needs to be balanced with equal consideration for non trans women’s rights is one of the worst things on the internet...

He’s just let out? WTF? The book’s resolution to that scenario was one of the better sequences in the novel, one of my favorites in fact, it was quite terrifying in its own way. The more I read about this series, the more its seeming like a big bucket of crap.

Indeed. In the book it was pretty clear the reverse was true — the plague helped create Flagg, not the other way around. He had spent the ages as a low-level demonic force feeding off the negative energy of mankind’s evil, and the creation and subsequent release of the superflu was an act of such monstrous evil that it…

Not that much of a difference. The book had Frannie’s age as being 21 (if I remember correctly) and implied Stu was maybe late 20s/early 30s.

OK, I admit I did enjoy the No Great Loss section as well, and it did help flesh out the “world building”, for lack of a better phrase, but my main objection is that some of the stories were so poorly done. The one with the man-hating spinster was ridiculous, and the one with the junkie in Detroit was, well, not…

I love this novel, despite it’s many flaws, but I always thought the perfect definitive version would be a compromise between the long and the short versions. Keep the expanded opening half with all the added details of the US government’s shenanigans, keep the Kid, excise all the digressions examining how one-scene…

Was reading up about this on IMBD. I’m not familiar with any of these generic Hollywood B-listers in the cast, but am I to understand they cast a 47-year old man as the love interest of a 22-year old woman? Hollywood truly sucks.

Maybe not travesty bad, but it’s definitely looking deeply inept and ill-conceived on a lot of different levels...

Pretty much. That was a woefully misguided bit of casting there...

I agree. I found the first half of the book much more compelling, and frightening, than the second half. The US government/military was just as disturbingly villainous as Flagg (if not more so, in some ways), and King created so many incredibly effective horrific scenarios detailing the spread, the fall of society and…

I have the sneaking suspicion The Stand is not going to qualify as their “good” programming. Unless if by “good”, you mean “marginally less bad”...