Stephen King's 'The Stand' Ordered to Series at CBS All Access

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I’ll give it a watch. Never seen the OG. I just remember it was like 6 tapes you had to rent at Blockbuster lol
 

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I enjoyed the first episode well enough. The time jumps were unnecessarily confusing, and I don't know why they pulled the trigger on Harold being the villain so early - kinda kills any opportunity for character development
 

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The Stand is one of my favorite Stephen King stories (along with The Langoliers). I rocked with the tv series heavy, even those it was cheesy as hell.

I'm not sure how I feel about this being on CBS All Access. Maybe they should have done something similar to how they did 11/22/63 on Hulu.
I'm surprised at you putting Langoliers up there like that. I only read it once but feel like the entire story could be summarized in maybe two lines tops.
 

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Watched the first episode yesterday and it wasn't bad but the way they're time jumping around is gonna confuse a lot of people but I guess it's needed in order to cover a lot of ground. What they did with Harold was cool I guess and I don't mind the changes its to be expected with adapting the story for today's time. I could go in but I'll leave the complaints for later. I just feel if they're gonna jump around like this the story is gonna be disjointed and go to shyt quickly.
 

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I enjoyed it. It seems like it's gonna be at least as good as the 90's jawn with Gary Sinise and Molly Ringwald. They made Harold instantly unlikable. I can't wait until they introduce Tom Cullen (spelled M-o-o-n). Bill Fagerbakke killed that role.
 
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