James Franco stars in Hulu's miniseries based on Stephen King's 11.22.63.
The rain came in bucketsful yesterday. Heavy, heavy rain. A good time to lie on the couch and watch the first episode of Hulu and J.J. Abrams's adaptation of Stephen King's wonderful novel 11.22.63. The first episode started streaming yesterday. I was not a Hulu subscriber, but I signed up yesterday in order to see this series.
11.22.63 is one of my favorite King novels. For those of you for whom just the name Stephen King strikes fear in your heart and makes you scream, this book contains no vampires, ghosts, or monsters--at least not the mythical kind. The story concerns a time/space continuum anomaly located in a closet in a diner in a small town in Maine. Anyone entering the closet is immediately whisked back in time to the exact same spot, except in October 1960 in the series (1958, I believe, in the book). I have no clue why the series makers felt the need to change the date. They also changed Franco's character's first name from George to Jake. Sometimes I think filmmakers just feel they have to put their mark on things. (I once worked with a copy editor who readily admitted that she changed copy sometimes just so that it would have something of her in it.) So, anyway, at the request of his dying friend who owns the diner Jake (George) agrees to go back to the 60s to attempt to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
After watching the "11.22.63" episode, then making supper of spaghetti and meat sauce for me and Jesse, I watched last night's episodes of both "X-Files" and "Castle." I found the "X-Files" episode to be both silly and profound (but I did enjoy watching Mulder do a quite adequate line dancing performance) and the "Castle" episode to be a little bit confusing (perhaps because of all the Russian language and accents).
In an hallucinagenic break with reality, Agent Fox Mulder does a Texas line dance in last nights "X-Files" episode, "Babylon," to the sounds of Billy Cyrus singing "Achy Breaky Heart." It was timeless.
So I think I've had enough tv for a while. Today I have to go to the grocery store, a trip that I started dreading as soon as I opened my eyes this morning. It's my most hated chore by far, as you probably know. I think I'll buy some ice cream and/or cheese cake just to make the trip a little bit more enjoyable.
Note: For those of you, like me, who are old enough to remember the 60s, you should thoroughly enjoy the fashions, cars, hair styles, and especially the music in the "11.22.63" series.
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On 02/16/2016, Debra said ...
I just finished watching the first episode too. Loved the book. I always hate when details are changed, but I do understand that some things have to be cut for time. Watch out for the past--it pushes back!
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