Can a high school English teacher change history and find love in the past?
Stephen King tries to save JFK from 11/22/63.
Thats the basic premise of Hulus a miniseries on the best-selling 2011 Stephen King novel11/22/63.
Templeton has been taking mini-vacations.
He doesnt light off for a quick weekend of fishing.
He prefers spending his time off somewhere in a more innocent age, the age of Camelot.
He confides in his restaurant regular about this time portal hes got hidden in the closet behind the kitchen.
He commands a respect that comes out of commercial success that is almost without precedent.
Part of this has to do with the usual northern New England prefs and language.
A TV miniseries has the time to leisurely present this, but the respect holds it back.
It probably doesnt help that King has a hand in any production of his works.
King could detail how the cream rises in milk that is delivered to a doorstep.
Franco only gets to give a wondrous look and complement a waitress.
Francos Epping also grows in spurts.
Epping falls in love with the past itself but he doesnt do it overnight.
Dont expect much in the way of conspiratorial theorizing in11/22/63.
How could there be?
There actually is more emphasis on the conspiracy possibilities in the miniseries than in the book.
There cant be a JFK assassination movie without CIA complicity involved.
They themselves have that written into every contract.
Daniel Webber plays Lee Harvey Oswald as a confused rebel looking for a cause.
He accosts pre-Kennedy assignation target General Walker before he gets a chance to prove Epping right or wrong.
The poor thing is stuck in an apartment in Texas all day and cant even smoke.
I dont think that was even translatable in Russian in the 1960s.
The series is produced by J.J. Abrams Bad Robot Productions, who brought usPerson of Interest,FringeandLost.
It was executive produced by writer Bridget Carpenter (The Red Road, Parenthood, Friday Night Lights).
There are some obvious commercial break cutaways in11/22/63, some even breaking up scenes.
For more discussion of11.22.63, take a listen toSci Fi Fidelityon the Den of Geek podcast connection.
One of their March topics include analysis of the first three episodes of the series.
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Rating:
3.5 out of 5
