The Institute

The beginning of book has a terrifying event that the TV show greatly waters down 😐.

That set up the expectations of what this show will be, watered down version of book.

This will not be horror nor thriller and more sci-fi drama if anything.

Thus my expectations have been lowered and so will continue to watch it for what it is, family friendly show. Even the aesthetics of show such as lighting suggests a more toned down feel compared to books.

Serviceable is best way to describe show if you read book. Cast and acting good, no complaints there.

It will be probably be more exciting for those who have not read books👍.

I love this book. One of my favorites from King's work in the last 10 years. When they announced this adaptation, years ago at this point, I was thrilled! Who could have known at the time that it would be sold to another network, and then severally delayed for years. Still, I was eager for this series and had high hopes. Finally, the series is released, and even though it's early on, I am having a hard time seeing this getting better from here. The pacing of the first two episodes was awful. There was essentially zero character development, even for the main characters like Tim and Luke. Everything so far seems rushed, and the deviations from the books thus far seem unnecessary. Why make Nicky's character more involved than he was? Why change Tim's journey and make it all center in Dennison? Simple things like that don't seem to have an overall impact that necessitated a deviation from the story.

I do hope it gets better.

I was born early 90s.. I have seen almost every tv show released since 1999.

Feels like after the pandemic tv shows started to show cracks that were not as common when there were more "gate keepers".

Netflix model has caused the death of good writing, good directing, good acting and I feel like movies and tv shows may have peaked in the 2010s later end.

Movies and tv shows are not old as time, gone with the wind was 1939..it's 2025 and even with more money and higher picture quality...substance seems to be lacking?

MGM? What are they doing? The lighting of the scenes looks weird, I feel like I'm watching a YouTube show? I use to look forward to shows, Hollywood feels dead.

I've read the book and I'm totally onboard with expanding Tim's story. The acting is good, the direction creepy enough while teasing us with what's to come. My one complaint is expanding the stories of some of the institute staff. I don't care about these people, these are awful people and outside of the 3 main staff members and security, the rest I don't care about. I hope they don't take up too much time as 8 episodes is enough to cover the book without much filler.

I know there's some uncomfortable scenes with the children which I'm not looking forward to seeing, but it all adds to the story and the eventual Conclusion which I can't wait to see how they've shot that.

I'll stick around and this looks set to be the best King TV adaptation since The Outsider.

Beyond the main three actors supporting are all simply awful actors. Then there are the lines, the writing in this show is so very very awful. The story is somewhat interesting, but then there's the cinematography. It looks like was filmed by the same cruise that do the super low budget teen shows for Netflix. The composition, the camera angles, that everything are awful.

There's a good show to be had in this, but for some reason they seem to have picked inept people for every role, acting, filming, and writing. The two main characters and the other main cast are not terrible, but The Supporting Cast seems like they picked up people who have never acted in their lives. I'm just frustrated.

Interesting idea for a story, terribly executed. What a waste.