It's usually considered one of, if not the best Stephen King books, and he's one of the most read authors in the US. Not sure why it's surprising. 

I mean, it’s not just logic and geography. The people who go to Vegas and Boulder are doing so specifically because they're having dreams. There are other people who aren't going to either of those places. 

I agree, but it says something about this series that Cullen is the best portrayed character in it. 

Is this the Avclub version of tweeting through it? 

It’s wild how they could get developmental disability so right with Tom, and so wrong with Trashcan Man (who is definitely depicted as developmentally disabled, not mentally ill) that it makes me think that it was Ezra Miller’s personal choice.

I remember seeing them at Blipfest back in 2008 or something, and then again during one of the worst heat waves in recent NYC history, like 2011 or so. Great fun live band.

But the original mini series is shorter yet gives the characters plenty of development. The biggest problem here is that they’re centering Harold and Nadine, who (in the end) are merely bit players. My guess is that Harold and Nadine have more lines than all the other “main” characters put together.

He was in a rage not just because he couldn’t find out the other spy, but that he had already lost 2 of the spies in ways he couldn’t foresee or prevent, and it’s about that time that he notices that things are starting to go “flaky around the edges.” He’s aware, and trying to ignore, that he’s losing.

I’m pretty sure the book is broken up into exactly those three parts, as acts.

In the books Flagg really doesn’t know what he’s actually doing there. They note that he sort of just appears during the civil unrest of the 60s, and has spend the decades fomenting any sort of unrest that he can - anarchist, right wing, drug running, it doesn’t matter. He doesn’t report to anyone, he just knows his…

But does show Larry have Lucy Swann? His reason in the book for rejecting Nadine makes absolute sense - he’s living with Lucy and was rejected by Nadine long before. But on the show it seems like he’s single and turning her down for sort of odd reasons given that they’re still living together.

Side note - Glynis Oliver was one of the main colorists for Marvel during the Bronze Age.

This series has fucked up in almost every possible way, but I would say the worst is removing the motivations and personalities from Flagg and Abigail. We have no idea who they are or what they're doing. And at the point the show is at, with Dayna's suicide, things are starting to come apart for Flagg, and he knows…

If the current decade has demonstrated anything, it has demonstrated that tech people love fascism. King was right, all the way back in 77

They also specifically point out that being around Flagg has made Henreid smarter, that he can think more logically than he has before. Threw that right out the window in this series. 

I could not agree more. They fucked this up so badly that there are nearly no character motivations, let alone a comprehensive plot.

No “obligatory” overtime. Just “strongly recommended,” “team pressured,” and “it will look good on your next performance review” overtime.

Fully half of the restaurants on seamless in my neighborhood are not real. And I live in a very big city.

I hate how news reports people as having “suffered an aneurysm.” That doesn’t really tell you anything. An aneurysm is just a weak wall in a blood vessel. Usually, when it’s reported that someone “suffered an aneurysm,” what they really mean is that “they suffered a brain hemorrhage after an aneurysm ruptured.” But it…

Those are basically the two worst examples you could give to defend other people making racist and anti-semitic slurs under the guise of comedy.