kay_rock

Decent cast, decent source material. In more adept hands, it could have been a nice, high-tension little show. As it was, it was a bad 1970s made-for-TV thing that might have appealed to teenagers or simple folk from a different era.

The source book was a middling-to-decent King novel - which makes it a pretty good book. Even though it featured children in most of the primary roles, it never felt childish. They managed to undo all of that in this series. I face-palmed from the ridiculousness in almost every episode. The finale was particularly embarrassing. The special effects and the "threats" were reminiscent of an old 1950s film like "the Brain-Sucking Monster from Outer Space" or some-such schlock. Almost agonizing.

In the past, King adaptations were almost universally cringe-worthy. Then I think he got smarter (and more financially powerful) with the contracts he would sign, and we ended up getting some high-quality work. I have no idea how this ended up getting made like this.

I gave it more than 5 stars because it really did have an amazing cast, and if you are a King fan, as I am, you will still enjoy pretty much any adaptation they do of his work. Even the really bad ones. Sigh.

We've got Lolitas and Madonnas and wh***s and even a drunken madonna wh*** but I've yet to see a fully realized female human being. Sure, they dun did give one of them girlies an edjumucation so what am I whinin' 'bout, right? Never mind that she's as ditzy as a bag of hair. Not one woman in this show, not even the mother of the boys who died, is anything other than a two-dimensional caricature trying to feed a skinny white boy. How much does Taylor Sheridan hate women? Because that's a LOT of hate.

It is 2025, not 1955. And here they are giving us a burlesque show with burly men burling about doing manly things and women as window dressing, flashing their boobs and shaking their under-aged booties for the titillation of old men and lots of twangy music. Please. This is so outdated that it almost feels like a historic piece harkening back to the worst days of male memory.

I never thought I'd see anything that made Yellowstone look like an intellectual drama, but they managed to do it here. They had a great premise. This had promise. And I kind of wonder why I'm surprised they broke that promise from the getgo. Of course they did. We're in full lash-back mode, here. The only thing we're missing is a troop of tap-dancing people of color.

I love Billy Bob Thornton. I'm disappointed that he would read this script and say "yes."

We all deserve better.

I love horror. I love horror comedy. I even love ridiculous horror.

This, I could not love.

The premise was only shakily offered before we're off to the races with body swapping. Very little conversation led up to their accepting the idea and the reality of the "game" and being willing to jump right in.

Upon swapping, the first thing they do is to make out with each other and spill their secrets. Without knowing with whom they're making out or swapping secrets. Except, there never does seem to be much trouble with that - they all seem to know who each other is.

By the time it gets to the nitty gritty, I had already sprained my eyeballs from rolling them at the inanity and had a hard time buying into anything that was happening.