stephen king c/d?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Negro

if you mean the Holly Gibney character, she's white in the book

Yeah
Guess hbo is at fault then

Yeah, I haven't watched The Outsider, but there was a 3-season adaptation of Mr. Mercedes and the other Bill Hodges books on DirecTV's Audience network, and Holly was played by Justine Lupe.

I’m rereading The Stand, which I haven’t read in about 17 years, and had forgotten how good it is and how much I remembered. The scene with Frannie and her mother in the calendar? Instantly remembered the clock ticking and the rose-patterned carpet. Incredible the things that stick with you, but that scene is great.

The Outsider is feeling a lot like The Dark Half 2

i watched the whole thing even though it felt pretty dumb. it's almost pulled off by the strong cast. but the whole show is so incredibly dark (visually) and then they have the entire climax take place in a cave, good luck figuring out what's happening.

every new HBO drama is required to have a climactic sequence take place in near-complete blackness. budgetary restrictions, what can you do?

i thought mare winningham in particular was excellent in it, plus a lot of the supporting cast was interesting (i particularly liked the private detective with the mustache). too bad about the plot and pace.

IMO, this was the closest an adaptation has come to replicating the pacing of a King novel. Ten hours seems about right, just enough time to let the thing breathe and to let the audience live with the characters and situations before the carnage begins in earnest.

I kinda think that may be a key element missing from many of the less successful King adaptations. You don't really get time for the low-key domestic texture which is imo one of his strong suits.

I was very into the vibe of the descent into the cave, it felt like how the endings of the two It movies might have felt if muschietti was good not bad

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Yeah, in 11-22-63 the low-key hangout parts are really enjoyable. It’s a bit like Better Call Saul - you don’t want the plot to move forward because you know something bad will happen as a result

I thought this was (mostly) a pretty excellent adaptation - like you say, I don’t think I’ve seen another adaptation do King’s trademark “slow descent into weirdness” quite so effectively

Though admittedly some of it has been very silly (which is also very King)

A play in three acts. pic.twitter.com/5hs3n1Kyfc

— Dr. Jennie Bujold🌹🏳️‍🌈 (@JennieBujold) June 28, 2020

author of Insomnia is woke go figure

Enormous list of every book king has blurbed, but I seriously doubt each blurb is for every individual book, most are probably general praise for the writer or for previous books? I'm certainly not reading each one to find out.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4816194-debra?shelf=sai-king-recommends

ha. I know James Ellroy says he never actually read any of the books he blurbed, but King mentions so many other writers in his books and interviews that I believe he reads all this stuff.

A friend of mine wrote a book King blurbed, and King not only follows him on Twitter but replies to him and occasionally quotes or RTs him, so that makes me think he's honest about what he claims to like.

Even more impressive is that those "reviews" aren't all blurbs, a lot of them are just books he's mentioned in tweets and in Danse Macabre. Unless his tweets get used on books?

From what I have always understood, Stephen King has always been a voracious reader.

When you're on day 3 of a coke bender, you've got to do something to fill the time.

Reading _The Institute_. Some of the Holocaust refs are a bit heavy handed, but I never expected Walter Rauff’s name to get dropped.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Rauff

Also took me quite a bit to realize that Mrs Sigsby is a ref to Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

i havent read that one - let me know if it’s any good

i just started Billy Summers, supposedly a crime novel… i like the premise so far, we’ll see!
though it is set in Red Bluff, which is v funny to me bc it is literally like northern california’s own “nowhere usa” (though ok fine that describes a lot of northern california)

nobody watching the jerusalem lot teevee show?

what channel/service is it on?

epix, lol
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/chapelwaite-stephen-king-epix-series-interview

I promise I will eventually watch all Stephen king shite, not up for series rn tho (there is also a prestigey liseys story show by pablo larraín with a great cast but man that book is so bad)

Billy summers is v down-the-line, I enjoyed it quite a bit with the usual set of peeves. Reminded me of wizard & glass & 11/22/63, king is quite good at “dude with a secret mission insinuates himself into a community” - there is a big plot turn I don’t really like, also a shining reference that is the laziest fucking pandering even by the increasingly low standards of king “Easter eggs”

Also wow this guy can let his imagination run riot for half a century and yet will never conceive of the possibility that fat people are human beings huh

Hi I’m new to this thread. Anyone watching the show in Apple TV+?

I am not.

I did watch both seasons of Castle Rock, enjoyed the pastiche stuff in the beginning, but S2 was a lot less fun and just kinda bizarre/disappointing at the end

Yeah I haven’t watched the Annie season of that yet. Liked the first arc a lot.

Molly, aka the Thing of Evil, joins the Children of the Corn. pic.twitter.com/STvcGIzXcl

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) August 27, 2021

ugh ok Billy Summers was a dud for me

enjoyed the first third, but after the dumb wtf plot twist with the girl i hate-read the rest of it

Jamie Lee Curtis connects Halloween and Stand By Me

https://www.fangoria.com/podcasts/the-kingcast/86-stand-by-me-with-jamie-lee-curtis/

So who's been watching Midnight Mass?

I’m 4 episodes in. Feels so much like a King adaptation that I came here looking for discussion. It’s schlocky, low-cal, and overwrought, like pretty much everything King has written. Also like King, it’s oddly effective even as you roll your eyes at the B-movie monsters in rubber suits. All that wordy heart-to-heart stuff in the middle of a small town possessed by a Nameless Evil.

Unlike King (but, alas, very like most King movies), it doesn’t succeed in sucking you into the horror. Riley & Erin feel like they’re living alongside, not within, the scary part. King at his best can make the most mundane everyday stuff seem fraught with dread.

I actually kinda feel like I’d like this better if it was just a miniseries about these ordinary people in this dying community and the 2 youngish ones coming back to come to terms with their tragic backstories and the place that spawned them — leaving all the boogeyman stuff out of it.

Have thought that about king tv adaptations for a while!

The Outsider was excellent as a mystery with a hint of supernatural and somewhat humdrum in plot (still excellently cast, played, shot tbh) once we had found out what the cause was (wont spoiler just in case but its as lazily predictably done as anything king has written in his career, they practically look it up in a library and say "wow thats absolutely implausible but it could be this" and it is and thats that)

Fourth Dark Tower book is a bit of a drag, could do without King describing a teenager masturbating ever again.

Just wait until you read the next three. You’ll look back fondly on this oneS

I am 100% out after this one, if I don’t abandon ship early.

Fourth Dark Tower book is a bit of a drag, could do without King describing a teenager masturbating ever again.

My only direct IT experience is the detour in the Kennedy book.

The existence of… that scene is impossible for me to comprehend.

could do without King describing any sex act ever again

Fair. The demon sex scene in the third book was even worse in its own way.

The teenage masturbation content of It is great (also horrific and homophobic, what’s great about that novel is also what’s terrible about it)

xp that scene is the worst imo

Isn't "Steven King" just a collective at this point?

James Patterson is a load of writers hooked up to those matrix pods, king’s books seem consistently the product of the same weirdo