6/10
Stephen King and Television
9 November 2015
A small village off the mainland is about to receive a huge winter storm. It won't be just another storm for them. A strange visitor named Andre Linoge comes to the small village and gives the residents havoc. He knows everything about them, and when he tells the truth about one of them, that person denies it.

There is some sort of connection between Stephen King and television, though I do not quite know what it is. Many of his films have been turned into TV mini-series. Some are quite good. "It", for example, is somewhat legendary, as is "The Stand". And then you get duds like "The Langoliers", which really should not even exist.

This is in the middle, maybe more good than bad. In some sense, it has elements of "The Stand" or "Needful Things", with its villain who seems to be devil incarnate. Perhaps they are all the same character? But it may also have a weakness in being a mini-series. It might run too long and might be too repetitive. People will disagree on this.
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