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A New The Mist Trailer Is Here and It's the Stuff of Nightmares (http://www.tvguide.com/news/the-mist-trailer-stuff-of-nightmares/)
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I'll be interesting to watch. I loved Darabond's 2007 cinematic version (not too thrilled with the ending) and it stayed pretty faithful to King's novella. King stated he was inspired by The Outer Limits episode "The Feasibility Study," one of the creepiest episodes of the series. Of course, many of the performers in Darabond's version moved over to his The Walking Dead. I'm just wondering how long they can extend the happenings in King's novella into something more than a two-hour movie.
Gerard
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The original ending in Stephen King's novella is different, with a glimmer of hope for the survivors. The basic premise may not be enough to sustain a long-term series.
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Summer TV Preview: 20 New and Returning Dramas That You Need to Watch
IndieWire's guide to Summer 2017 TV dramas (http://www.indiewire.com/2017/06/summer-tv-preview-2017-best-dramas-to-watch-1201836509/2/)
(Check out the 1st show on this second page.)
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WHAT TO WATCH TONIGHT
June 22, 2017
The Night Shift Returns, The Mist Rolls In, Gong Show and More
10:00PM
Spike | The Mist
Series premiere: Based on the Stephen King novella, this drama finds a small town cut off from the rest of the world by a dome after an eerie mist rolls in; Morgan Spector (Allegiance), Alyssa Sutherland (Vikings) and Frances Conroy (AHS) star. |
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Tonight's ep is also an Editor's Pick from tvguide.com:
The Mist
Pilot (Season 1 | Episode 1)
10:00PM
In the series premiere, a mysterious mist overruns a small town and threatens its inhabitants.
And the show is also tonight's #1 Top Trending show...
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More Qs (http://tvline.com/2017/06/23/supernatural-spinoff-krissy-madison-mclaughlin-wayward-sisters-tv-questions-answers/)
(Check out question #23.)
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'The Mist' series premiere recap: 'Pilot'
The weather outside is not at all delightful (http://ew.com/recap/the-mist-series-premiere/)
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The Mist Is Enveloped in a Cloud of Stephen King Tropes (http://www.tvguide.com/news/the-mist-stephen-king-tropes-spike/)
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I just watched it on-line (our local cable charges for Spike) and I wasn't impressed, but I'll give it a chance and try another one or two episodes. One of my complaints is that the mist seems to be spreading over several days and no one knows about it or is reporting it. That, of course, doesn't make sense. Anyway, I think the actor who plays the principal is the same one who played the principal in Carrie 2002.
Gerard
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WHAT TO WATCH TONIGHT
June 29, 2017
Zoo Returns, Battle of the Network Stars Revival and More
10:00PM
Spike | The Mist
Eve and a fellow mall goer look for an emergency radio; Kevin, Mia, Bryan, and Adrian hunker down at the church. |
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Tonight's ep is also an Editor's Pick from tvguide.com:
The Mist
Withdrawal (Season 1 | Episode 2)
10:00PM
The Copeland family deal with being separated. Eve is forced to make a tough decision about the truth when put in danger at the mall.
And the show is also tonight's #4 Top Trending show...
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I'll watch the next several episodes on-line; like I said, my cable company now charges for Spike. From the pilot, it seems like a retread of Fear the Walking Dead. The apocalypse happens, a strained family is torn apart by their own actions and the apocalypse and yadda-yadda-yadda. Virtually none of the original characters from King's novella are in it. We had a glimpse of Mrs. Carmody, the crazed fundamentalist woman who thought humankind was paying for its sins, but she's quickly dispatched by the monsters. She was central to the novella but in this adaptation she gets a few minutes of screen-time then gets her jaw ripped off and dragged away to be eaten. King's works always, well, work because he takes normal people with non-soap-opera lives and places them in horrific situations. In this version of The Mist it seems, from the pilot, all unrealistic soap-opera. Well, let's see where it goes.
Gerard
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WHAT TO WATCH TONIGHT
July 6, 2017
Handsy Night Shift, Sex Symbols Battle, Nashville and More
10:00PM
Spike | The Mist
Connor locks Mia, Jonah and Kevin in the church basement; Jay attempts to convince Alex that he didn’t rape her. |
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Tonight's ep is also an Editor's Pick from tvguide.com:
The Mist
Show and Tell (Season 1 | Episode 3)
10:00PM
At the church, Connor locks up Mia, Jonah and Kevin in the basement. Back at the mall, Jay confronts Alex to try and convince her he didn't rape her.
And the show is also tonight's #4 Top Trending show...
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'The Mist' recap: 'Show and Tell'
The Moth Man cometh (http://ew.com/recap/the-mist-season-1-episode-3/)
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Okay, so I''m the thorn in the foot. Why do I keep watching this drudge? It's dull. It's a rehash of Fear the Walking Dead. No one cares about the soap-operaticism of the main characters. It doesn't make sense. The plots and dialogue are predicable. Few monsters have eaten anyone. The monsters are our world's creation that've become mutated rather than coming from another dimension. I've figured that out. So what has that to do with King's novella which is almost superb? Why do I continue to watch?
Gerard
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WHAT TO WATCH TONIGHT
July 13, 2017
Zoo's Risky Business, Scandal Battles HTGAWM and More
10:00PM
Spike | The Mist
Kevin tries to reason with Clay after arriving at an abandoned gas station with Mia, Jonah and Adrian; Alex comes face to face with the Mist.. |
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Tonight's ep is also an Editor's Pick from tvguide.com:
The Mist
Pequod (Season 1 | Episode 4)
10:00PM
Kevin; Mia; Jonah; and Adrian arrive at an abandoned gas station, where Kevin tries to reason with Clay amid fears of the wherabouts of his child. At the mall bookstore, Alex comes face to face with the Mist.
And the show is also tonight's #5 Top Trending show...
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I'm sorry, but still dull, dull, dull. Nothing new to see here; move on. So why do I keep watching? Well, maybe episode five might finally deliver. Hopefully. Other than the premise of a fog with "something out there" and survivors stuck in a store (in King's novella, it was a handful in a supermarket, in this series it's hundreds in a mall), there's nothing from King's work. The only character, the religious fanatic Mrs. Carmody, is quickly killed off. And enough with the Peyton Place stuff. It doesn't enhance or flesh-out the characters. They all come off whiny. One hopes the monsters (if they ever really show up) will eat them and deliver us. Why not, as King usually does, show us normal everyday folk with real worries like will the store honor double-coupon days? When the apocalypse happens, what will you be doing? Trying to figure out how to pay your home-owner's insurance installment while budgeting in this week's grocery shopping, or being wrapped up in who in your neighborhood is having sex and why?
Want to create a gripping story? Take ordinary people and place them in extraordinary circumstances that are horrific. And don't drag it out. That's what made The Walking Dead work (although now it's really dragging; time to wrap it up).
Gerard
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WHAT TO WATCH TONIGHT
July 20, 2017
Nashville Pregnancy Scare, O.J. Parole Hearing and More
10:00PM
Spike | The Mist
Kevin has an unexpected encounter with his brother when he and the others wind up at a hospital. |
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Tonight's ep is also an Editor's Pick from tvguide.com:
The Mist
The Waiting Room (Season 1 | Episode 5)
10:00PM
Kevin and the others reach the hospital, where Kevin has an unexpected and painful encounter with his brother, Mike.
And the show is also tonight's #4 Top Trending show...
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Still dull, dull, dull. More Peyton Place stuff, an entire episode (#5) and then some man-eating leaches at the end (to go along with the man-eating cockroaches and the man-eating moths). Honestly, the whole insipid Luke-and-Laura trials and travails stuff even when they battled some evil mad Greek scientist guy was better than this dreg. But I still keep watching and hoping.
Gerard
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I haven't been watching, so I don't have any opinion. And I can see why you wouldn't be liking the things you've complained about, Gerard. [nodassent] But an interesting thing is that ever since the show debuted it has consistently been among the top five trending Thursday shows on tvguide.com. For that to happen, some people out there must be enjoying the show...
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I agree with you, MB! I think a huge portion of the audience did not read the novella or saw the film adaptation, so this is "original material" to them. And how it's developing, it is. It has nothing in common with the source (other than the afore-mentioned Mrs. Carmody who's offed within minutes). That's what's so aggravating to me as a fan of the novella and the cinematic version. And the heavy layers of Peyton Place stuff is predictable, a sign of bad writing. When a "situation" is set up, I know how it will end and, shor-nuff, that's exactly what happens. But, like I said, I keep hoping.
Gerard
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Well, honestly there are very few instances where I've read a book and then watched the TV/Movie version and I was really happy with it, so I can feel your pain. Although, it's often a good idea to pay attention to how those involved in a project describe what they're doing. Some really do attempt a faithful version of the book, with maybe a few changes here and there, but others will claim to be faithfully adapting a book while they really do anything but. Though others say they're taking the book as a guideline but they'll be going off in their own directions. From what you've written, I suspect the latter might be the case here.
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WHAT TO WATCH TONIGHT
July 27, 2017
The Night Shift Admits a Justified Vet, Nashville and More
10:00PM
Spike | The Mist
Kevin becomes an involuntary Mist viewer test subject; Nathalie has a violent encounter with a church parishioner. |
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Tonight's ep is also an Editor's Pick from tvguide.com:
The Mist
The Devil You Know (Season 1 | Episode 6)
10:00PM
At the hospital, Kevin becomes an involuntary test subject on what drives the Mist. Also: after Nathalie discusses her theories about The Black Spring, she has a violent encounter with Link.
And the show is also tonight's #4 Top Trending show...
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WHAT TO WATCH TONIGHT
August 3, 2017
The Beek Is Diplo, Tunnel Closes, Guest Book and More
10:00PM
Spike | The Mist
Kevin and the group take up sanctuary in the hospital’s psych wing; Nathalie faces off with Father Romanov. |
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Tonight's ep is also an Editor's Pick from tvguide.com:
The Mist
Over the River and Through the Woods (Season 1 | Episode 7)
10:00PM
The gang find unlikely sanctuary in the psych wing of the hospital; tensions at the mall escalate about the remaining food rations; and Nathalie and Romanov have a final confrontation.
And the show is also tonight's #4 Top Trending show...
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I've been holding out; don't ask me why. Again, maybe hope springs eternal. Each episode is more convoluted than the previous, the plots are all over the place, and none of the characters are likeable. Not a one. I wish they'd be offed by whatever is suppose to be in that mist. All we've seen are man-eating cockroaches, moths and leeches. And they're not that frightening. Oh, and the Peyton Place stuff has gotten more, um, Peytonish. There's even now a Luke-and-Laura thing going on involving two teenagers and a supposed rape. Ho-hum. It's pretty much a rehashing of The Walking Dead, including a crazy Episcopal priest. Well, there's only a few episodes left. Maybe those will make something out of this mess. I've read reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and other critical sites and they're not so kind. If anyone wants to watch it to form their own opinion, the whole spiel is on the Spike TV website (sans commercials; the only good thing) where I've been watching it. When you've got nothing better to do after you've done the laundry and vacuumed the living room and GSN has hours and hours of Family Feud reruns, take a look.
Gerard
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Okay, the whining critic is back. So, I just watched the latest episode. The survivors in the mall are at each other's throats and breaking into battling tribes. The survivors in the Episcopal church are at each other's throats and breaking into battling tribes. The survivors in the hospital are at each other's throats and breaking into battling tribes. You get the gist. There was one neat scene. At the church, a psychotic teenage boy tries to murder an old woman he thinks is a witch. She manages to fight him off, break a window allowing the mist inside and get out, locking the door with the psycho teenager inside. A few scenes later we see what's left of him: a rotted, melting corpse. That was the highlight. Three episodes left. You know, despite how awful this adaptation is, I'm going to stick it out.
Gerard
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WHAT TO WATCH TONIGHT
August 10, 2017
Nashville Finale, Primetime Weekend Update and More
10:00PM
Spike | The Mist
Nathalie continues to gain influence among the parishioners; Eve intervenes with Alex and Jay; a stop at Adrian’s home results in an unexpected discovery. |
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Tonight's ep is also an Editor's Pick from tvguide.com:
The Mist
The Law of of Nature ( Season 1 | Episode 8 )
10:00PM
Nathalie's influence over the remaining church parishioners continues to grow. At the mall, Alex and Jay grow closer until Eve intervenes. Kevin and the group make a stop at Adrian's home where Kevin makes a shocking discovery.
And the show is also tonight's #5 Top Trending show...
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Mr. Mercedes series premiere recap: 'Pilot'
Even in retirement, Detective Bill Hodges is still haunted by the serial killing he never solved (http://ew.com/recap/mr-mercedes-series-premiere/)
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After I watch it tomorrow, I'll give my opinion. You'll know what it'll probably be. I can't imagine Stephen King being happy about this. Has anyone else watched it? The makers promise that in the last episode they'll reveal what's going on. It's not obviously in King's novella unless in a very obscure way. In the source (and the cinematic adaptation), a military experiment at a base had gone wrong (hinted at by soldiers also trapped in the supermarket) and a rift opened into another dimension allowing all the horrible monsters to cross over and begin to populate Earth. So far, other than a brief mention of something happening at a local military base, this has nothing to do with horrific monsters. It's about a bunch of unlikeable characters who experience hallucinations.
Gerard
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WHAT TO WATCH TONIGHT
August 17, 2017
Girlfriends' Guide and Project Runway Return, Zoo and More
10:00PM
Spike | The Mist
In the penultimate Season 1 episode, Adrian turns up at the mall with bad news, as the survivors begin to turn on Alex and Eve. |
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Tonight's ep is also an Editor's Pick from tvguide.com:
The Mist
The Waking Dream (Season 1 | Episode 9)
10:00PM
Adrian arrives at the mall with somber news. The mall survivors start to turn on Alex and Eve.
And the show is also tonight's #4 Top Trending show...
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I forgot to give my "critique" of last Thursday's episode. Spike TV "burped" during it and I had to wait a few days before I could view the entire show. To be perfectly honest, I really don't remember what happened. All I know was that it involved more Peyton Placeish melodrama and was all over the place. No monsters. Totally unlikeable characters being annoying. That pretty much sums it up. TV took other King works and made them work. The epic novels were turned into mini-series (the best being The Stand). Even the novella The Langoliers became a short mini-series and it worked. The 2002 version of Carrie was a three-hour movie and the best of the cinematic versions (sorry for the heresy regarding the 1976 version which is a classic, but this one was better; 2013 stunk, a simple rehashing of elements from '76 and '02 and adding nothing new other than the bullies posting their abuse of Carrie [Chloe Grace Moretz - Carolyn in DS12] in the locker room on youtube - how trendy). This version of The Mist is so far from the mark it can't be considered something "based upon the novel" (note it doesn't say novella) by King. Well, I'll give my critique of tonight's episode after I watch it tomorrow.
Gerard
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WHAT TO WATCH TONIGHT
August 24, 2017
Charles Esten Returns to Whose Line, Update Wraps and More
"On TV this Thursday: ..., The Mist dissipates over on Spike TV..."
10:00PM
Spike | The Mist
Season 1 finale: Tensions flare as new information arises about the origins of………… the mist. |
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Tonight's ep is also an Editor's Pick from tvguide.com:
The Mist
The Tenth Meal (Season 1 | Episode 10)
10:00PM
Tensions at the mall finally come to a head, and the group makes a discovery that could provide answers about the mist's origins.
And the show is also tonight's #4 Top Trending show...
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Oh no, Gerard - terrible news:
The Mist Cancelled at Spike (http://tvline.com/2017/09/27/the-mist-cancelled-spike-no-season-2/)
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MB, how could you break my heart like that? Now what am I going to do after Thursday night when I can watch it on-line and then kvetch about it? Somehow I'll pick up the pieces. There must be a support-group for people like me. With the holidays approaching, maybe I can start posting how awful all those Hallmark movies with Lisa Welchel are: Love at Christmas; Christmas Love; Holiday Love; Love on New Year's; Love Under the Mistletoe; Fake-Tree Love, etc. I'll watch them all: girl meets boy; girl hates boy; girl dances with boy, girl loves boy. I'll watch them all and report back here. Maybe David Selby will have a cameo.
Gerard
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The Most Disappointing TV Shows of 2017 (http://www.indiewire.com/2017/12/worst-shows-2017-tv-disappointing-series-1201903257/)
(Scroll down to #6.)
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TV Shows That Ended in 2017 - THE MIST: Finale Airdate: Aug. 24 (http://tvline.com/gallery/cancelled-tv-shows-2017-girl-meets-world-last-man-standing-photos/#!56/cancelled-tv-shows-2017-mist/)
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I would've been willing to see where this awful adaptation went, if it could've saved itself in a second season. But it blew it. Not enough people watched for good reason.
Gerard
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The 15 most disappointing TV shows of 2017 - "The Mist" (Spike TV) (http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/gallery/the-15-most-disappointing-tv-shows-of-2017/ss-BBGHr0J?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=iehp#image=8)
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I wonder if the series would've done better if it was a re-imagining of King's novella (not a remake of the cinematic version) wherein the characters from the original work are tapped in the supermarket and, after a few decide to flee, end up in a motel on their way to Hartford, CT (from which they received a broadcast as in the novella and the initial ending of the film) and pressed on. It could've been a whole different and better creature than Spike made with its convoluted plots about date-rape and cross-gendered teens dealing with parents. None of the characters (only one transitioned from the novella and she was quickly offed) were sympathetic. Not one. When someone got dispatched, there were only cheers of gratitude.
Sometimes it's just best to portray the characters as King has done in his works. In the various versions of Carrie, she's portrayed as a thin, fairly attractive girl. The first two were classic; the third with Chloe Moretz was a dud. However, in the novel she is a rather pudgy teen with clumps of acne (her nickname among the bullies was "puddin'"). Her mother was a fat woman with long gray hair tied in a bun and rimless glasses pressed into her pudgy face. King drew Carrie from a composite of two girls he remembered from high school. We all had a girl like that when we were in high school. Ours was a poor, tormented creature, totally friendless, taunted with the nicknames "spider" and "eagle-claw." She lived in the shadows, trying to hide as she walked the corridors between classes. We all had them; we can relate and identify; that's what makes King's characters work - we know them. Spacek, Bettis and Moretz were just too "pretty" even when they were "uglied" up. But they, despite dramatic expertise, could not portray the "Carries" we had in our schools. Our Carrie was humiliated at her high school graduation. Having no friends, she had no social skills or understanding of fashion. Our graduation was formal: evening gowns and tuxedos. She came in a pink dress (like the one in Carrie) that was too short to hide the white sweat socks and yellow shoes she wore. When her name was called for her diploma, scores hooted and howled and "spider!" and "eagle-claw!" reverberated. She moved as quickly as she could, walking with her arms swinging, her head downcast, her shoulders shrugged as someone yelled: "She looks like a monkey!" All that was missing was the bucket of blood. We all saw it in high school; cinematic versions should stick with what it was like. That's what draws our sympathy.
Gerard