LA TIMES: Stephen King On TV



Elizabeth Hand at the LA Times has an interesting article on Stephen King's TV mini-series. (HERE)  The list is pretty long.  I don't agree with every conclusion (there is no way Tommyknockers is the worst of the batch), but I enjoyed the article quite a lot.  Brimming with clips and insight, the article is well done.

The article is generally favorable to Mick Garris and gives him (and King) credit for not just pumping out blood and guts, but some serious drama.

Here is Hand's take on the 2002 television version of Carrie that I thought was a home run:

And then there’s the 2002 pilot for a projected series of “Carrie” in which Carrie survives to become a psychic investigator in Florida, something even Patricia Clarkson as Carrie White’s grim-faced mother couldn’t save. “You ever see something you can’t explain?” asks one prom-night survivor. “I’m not talking about a strange light in the sky, or Jesus’ face on a tortilla. I’m talking about something that’s not supposed to happen. Like, in reality.”


 

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