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
