I've never seen either movie, and I enjoyed this thoroughly. Sounds like some real comic-book-style timeline nonsense.

That’s insane. I had to sit on a murder trial jury. The judge explicitly told us we had to decide for ourselves which witnesses were credible and which were not. We were explicitly told we should even consider that a witness could be partially credible. It was up to us to decide if we believed all of a witness, some…

No. The review clearly states that as time goes on they accumulate more and more people.

rapidly devolves into a violent nightmare of cannibalism, cultism, and genocide, gruesomely parodying the narrative of Christianity, from Genesis to the gospels.

A ridiculous new makeover proves The AV Club cannot succeed without its comments section.

As much as I love both David Simon and George Pelecanos (one of the first things I do in any used book store is head over to the Ps), and as much as I know not to judge a David Simon series too early on (the first few eps of The Wire didn’t grab me, despite my love of Homicide), my immediate reaction to the pilot…

So I can give you my experience of a precocious King reader, I’d definitely check with a librarian or YA expert (we used to have quite a few around here) for more expert opinion, especially on appropriateness.