Its Hard to See the Point of Spike TVs The Mist Demanders. Brian Tallerico.   Print Page. Tweet. Spike TVs The Mist should check all of my boxes. Up until a point in the mid 0. I had ready every single book and short story written by Stephen King. Im something of a sucker for horror Summer TV guilty pleasuresIm probably the only person you know who watched every episode of Harpers Island and MTVs Scream. Ex Drummer Full Movie Online Free. And so the new adaptation of The Mist should be right in my wheelhouse. And yet theres something not quite right about this premiere, including what feels like a misinterpretation of the source material and relatively low production values. Ill keep watchingand I truly wish I had more than one episode to review to see how it shapes upbut Im not sure its a guilty pleasure Ill be proud of. Spike TVs The Mist should check all of my boxes. Up until a point in the mid00s, I had ready every single book and short story written by Stephen King. I. Advertisement. A soldier wakes up in the middle of a forest, uncertain of where he is or possibly even his own name. Theres a dog with him, who he immediately takes as a loyal companion, and then we watch get gutted by something in the mist. The Mist immediately removes all question of threat from the title creation and brutally kills a dog in the process. Vos vidos en toute libert. The best shows on Amazon Prime Video UK you need to watch right now. Share this Rating. Title The Langoliers 1995 6. Want to share IMDbs rating on your own site Use the HTML below. Directed by Jack Smight. With Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist Jr. A 747 in flight collides with a small plane, and is rendered pilotless. Some people will check out right then and there. The purpose is obvioushorror movies and shows need to open with a gotcha momentbut this one doesnt work and sets the program off on a wobbly footing right from the beginning. As you might imagine, the horror aspect of the program then fades into the background a bit as we meet the rather large cast of characters. Cb01. uno ex cineblog01 Gratis Nessuna registrazione richiesta. Commentate i film loggandovi con Facebook, Twitter, Google o Disqus., yeah, I GAY GGood Aat from Imgur tagged as Yeah Meme. Unlike the Frank Darabont adaptation of the short story, the characters in this iteration end up in various locations instead of one, all trapped by the mist but also separated from loved ones. A few end up at a mall others at a police station and so on. Before that happens, theres a high degree of drama from a rape accusation at a party, a woman with a mysterious past who picks the worst day to return to town, and more plot details designed to create heroes and villains, with each location getting a relatively equal amount of both categories. The film and book versions of The Mist are about paranoia and how stress impacts human relationships. The TV version of the The Mist is about flesh eating bugs in the mist. It might be about more than that, but the degradation of the concept in the premiere is disappointing. Its one of those programs that shows way too much and doesnt allow for tension to build. We see the impact of the mist way too quickly for a show that now has to maintain suspense over the course of a season. And the special effects are too thin to be actually terrifying. Watch Jumper Online Jumper Full Movie Online. Given the understandably low budget, it would have been smarter to play with the unknown enemy in the mist instead of making such a literal horror show. Advertisement. It doesnt help that the script is also remarkably thin, and I dont see the characters getting more interesting as the show has to focus them entirely on survival now. If youre going to spend the first hour of a show like this one building up the cast of characters, you need to do it in ways that feel less two dimensional than the premiere of The Mist. About halfway through the premiere, I had a flashback to the era of Stephen King mini series, adaptations like Storm of the Century and The Langoliers. Long before the rise of horror on cable television in shows like The Walking Dead, these were the guilty pleasure way we got our Stephen King fix between books. The acting was always a bit better than average even if the production values were weak, but it was primarily the source material that made them work. The creators of The Mist would be wise to go back to those templates here and reconsider why people love this story in the first placeits not because of killer bugs. Next Article Alison Brie Heads Great Ensemble on Netflixs GLOWPrevious Article If I Had an Emmy Ballot 2. Popular Blog Posts. 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