Didn't hate it, but watched both this and the Kubrick version after reading the book.
Firstly, this is a TV show and not a movie - so lower your expectations slightly and enjoy it for what it is.
No doubt about it, this is a good version of King's vision. Love it or hate it, it's pretty faithful and I gotta say that you needn't overanalyse this to see that Steven Weber and Rebecca de Mornay did a good job playing the very average Torrance spouses, come on, give Weber some credit - those are some ridiculous shoes to fill after Jack Nicholson.
Danny was a miscast for me, but then again so was the kid in the Kubrick version.
So this doesn't get all the stars, but it does get some credit for leaning into the source material and busting a gut to 'rectify' (at least for Stephen King) the many omitted moments from the book in Kubrick's version... which is of course, in a different league.
We all know that - so haters, chill out and enjoy the fact that there are two versions of the story and there's no undoing that.
Firstly, this is a TV show and not a movie - so lower your expectations slightly and enjoy it for what it is.
No doubt about it, this is a good version of King's vision. Love it or hate it, it's pretty faithful and I gotta say that you needn't overanalyse this to see that Steven Weber and Rebecca de Mornay did a good job playing the very average Torrance spouses, come on, give Weber some credit - those are some ridiculous shoes to fill after Jack Nicholson.
Danny was a miscast for me, but then again so was the kid in the Kubrick version.
So this doesn't get all the stars, but it does get some credit for leaning into the source material and busting a gut to 'rectify' (at least for Stephen King) the many omitted moments from the book in Kubrick's version... which is of course, in a different league.
We all know that - so haters, chill out and enjoy the fact that there are two versions of the story and there's no undoing that.