People in real life didn’t talk like movies, but the investigation of homicides was still up to adults who had that as a professional responsibility rather than kids in highschool. Characters should act in a way that makes sense for their situation, and the situation of kids in a suburban highschool has no resemblance…

Hey, he liked Brick and I don’t, so I still get to be special.

The ending was godawful and in complete contradiction with what we’d been told about the house. It’s the result of trying to turn the story into an uplifting family drama, which turns out to be a terrible idea.

I really hated Brick, but that was mostly because it was stupid for modern middle class suburban highschoolers to be imitating noir characters. An Agatha Christie-esque film seems much more interesting.

I am Legend is still the adaptation I’m angriest about. I was sure if they retained the original title that they’d have to keep the ending.

I’ll agree on his movie track record, but not his Hill House miniseries.

I think that Will’s reconstruction of the Leeds murders in the third season was basically the only time that season remembered that deaths have weight. The rest of the time it was treated like a joke. They did do an awful job of the Red Dragon plotline, partly because the show was so much more interested in Hannibal…

The show definitely got to burning plot as a surprising rate. It was impressive they managed to pull that off for a while, although they crashed and burned when they got to the third season.

Polanski a clown? I suppose I’m not in any position to object, as I haven’t seen “The Fearless Vampire Killers”, but I don’t think it’s the first thing anyone would associate with him.

The first season has the characters thinking they’re in an episodic police procedural, except they’re actually in a surreal nightmare. Will gradually losing his mind over the course of it only to reveal he was in a trap he never anticipated was a tremendous coup. The second season was hampered by the boldness of the…

I think the best season is the first one, but Mizumono is the best episode. Season 3 retroactively makes it worse. The ending of season 3 is a bad episode, but could arguably serve as the more conclusive ending. If Fuller ever manages to revive the show though, that would undo even that.

Kids on the street! Kids on the beat! Beat Kids! Beat Kids!

King’s favorite adapter, Frank Darabont

I haven’t watched this series and only skimmed the article for the general commentary on prequels. And as a pedant, I should note that your list of examples extends beyond the past “few” years.

Team America: World Police already perfected that.

My understanding is that he had already broken up with Mia Farrow. Soon Yi has said Woody was never a father to her, although since she’s married to him she consistently sticks up for him.

This will work just as well as the last time he teamed up with a younger comic actor in “The Comedians” on FX.

I was still a student back then without funds for extra harddrives, so when mine failed I had to start back from the beginning, and never did replace all those Metallica or Iron Maiden tracks. Not too long after that I also lost the CD collection that I kept in my car when that broke down out of state. A year or so…

Yeah, punk was something I only heard about rather than actually heard prior to Bearshare/Kazaa. And it wasn’t that long ago that I found the album “Curses” by Ringers uploaded in one of those zip files on a blogspot site.

At 1100 pages, that is an impressive afternoon of reading.