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
