TL;DR If you read the book and loved it, this is for you. It does it justice.
I only got around to watching this in 2023, influenced by the myriad negative reviews on release.
Boy, am I glad I did.
As a die hard King fan and Constant Reader, The Stand holds a very special place in my heart.
I had zero expectations going into this, fully believing that I'd turn it off in disgust after about twenty minutes.
I ended up bingeing the show in three days. It does the source material full justice (the teleplay was done by none other than Owen King) even including key sequences from the uncut edition of the Stand that I believed would be left out. There are some changes here and there but they fit in well with the overall tone of the source material. The epilogue is a great bonus and guaranteed to throw a curveball at Constant Readers not expecting any surprises.
I only got around to watching this in 2023, influenced by the myriad negative reviews on release.
Boy, am I glad I did.
As a die hard King fan and Constant Reader, The Stand holds a very special place in my heart.
I had zero expectations going into this, fully believing that I'd turn it off in disgust after about twenty minutes.
I ended up bingeing the show in three days. It does the source material full justice (the teleplay was done by none other than Owen King) even including key sequences from the uncut edition of the Stand that I believed would be left out. There are some changes here and there but they fit in well with the overall tone of the source material. The epilogue is a great bonus and guaranteed to throw a curveball at Constant Readers not expecting any surprises.