Hulu original series. New episode every Monday.
Just watched the first episode. The 1960 backgrounds/clothes/cars/music are a treat. Deely Plazain Dallas as it looked in 1960 - OMG. Made a field trip there in high school. Watching our protagonist morph from a modern hipster into Don Draper was a hoot.
I’m sure there will be time-travel nerds who will find all kinds of problems with the physics of it, but it’s looking good so far.
Like what I’m seeing so far. Side question: Why periods separating the dates instead of slashes? (11.22.63 vs 11/22/63.)
This is just a WAG, but some web links/addresses don’t like slashes…so maybe thinking ahead to internet browser use?
This was an 800+ page book (I didn’t read it), so according to the boards at the IMDB, at least one entire plotline was cut out completely. This premise is always an intriguing one.
When Jake walked into that JFK election rally–what a thrill for someone born after Kennedy’s death. I would love to see Abraham Lincoln make a speech in person, or even Franklin Roosevelt. I was in high school when Kennedy was killed, so I did see him on TV a lot, but never in person. Saw Nixon in person, in Dallas, actually, around 1972.
When you saw Nixon, what was your reaction? Did you suspect he was a crook at that time?
Nobody knew Nixon was a crook in 1972. But he WAS the President and it was cool to see the President. It was from a distance in a big crowd. I remember the following year being glued to the TV watching the Watergate hearings.
I saw Bill Clinton speak while he was running in '92.
This is one of the few King books I’ve not read, for no particular reason other than . . life. Definitely plan to though. Would it be better to watch and then read? We all know that Mr. King’s works don’t always get translated that well.
I read the book and enjoyed it, although I was disappointed with the ending (not unusual for King, I guess). It’s fun to see it come back to life.
I did realize a plot hole while watching the first episode that was also in the book, but I hadn’t caught it: Jake spends a lot of time at first, in the past, trying to verify that Oswalt acted alone to kill Kennedy. After all, his friend said, you don’t want to kill the wrong guy.
But as was explained, if you come back to the present and return through the rabbit hole again, everything completely resets. So why not kill Oswald the first time you see him, then come back to the present and see if it worked? If you find out you were wrong, you can always go back and reset the timeline again.
You can try the first episode. The plot doesn’t get so far down the road that it would spoil the book.
Also check out the message board on the Internet Movie Data Base. Quite a few of those people have read the book. That might help you decide.
I saw President Obama speak in November of 2012. Even got to shake his hand.
It was not cool getting to meet a sitting president, but a president who’s also my age (we were born 2 months apart.)
Of course he’s done a lot with his life.
Me… not so much:(
Read the book and enjoyed it well enough. My wife and I watched the first episode last night. I liked it. As the OP mentioned, it’s a nice job of recreating 1960-- not that i was actually there (the title is approximately the same date I was conceived). It’s not exactly verbatim realistic, but when Franco goes back into the past the colors are more saturated, and everything has an iconic look and feel to it, as if it’s entirely a creation of nostalgic memory. Which it really is, being a product of King’s mind.
The story itself is well told, and seems to be sticking closely to the book so far as I remember (though as mentioned it’s still early in the story). We’re new to Hulu, and my wife was all geared up to watch the second one. When she realized the whole series wasn’t posted all at once Netflix-bingewatch-style, she was like “what???! We have to WAIT A WEEK, like the olden days?!??” Yeah, wonder why Hulu doesn’t copy the Netflix model. I thought binge watching was the new black.
Hulu does do that with some things, just not with this one.
So what did folks think about E2? Pretty intense.
Good golly gosh!* I completely forgot about it! Been spoiled by binge watching–wait a whole week for a new episode? I don’t think so. I’m gonna run and watch it and I’ll get back to you.
*Channeling Lord Grantham.
I had to fast-forward through a lot of it. Can’t handle the drawn-out violence and cruelty. But I’m glad he killed that son of a bitch. I’ll be very curious to see what effect that has on the future, but I guess he can’t come back until he deals with Kennedy because that will re-set everything, right? Or when he comes back to the present everything in the past stays put unless he goes back to the past again, and THEN it re-sets?
I freaked out when I saw that Mrs. Price was one of my favorites, gorgeous redhead Annette O’Toole– eek! I hope she doesn’t really look like that now.
This show keeps getting more interesting and more entertaining.
The thing I like best is that it seems to have an open ended future. Seems to me the show runner(s) can make it go almost anywhere they want. I’m guessing it could easily prove to be an outstanding show.
THAT was Anette O’Toole. Geez, I just rewatched Cat People about a week ago and still didn’t spot her.
Second King adaptation for Ms. O’Toole…she also played the adult version of Bev Marsh in IT.
Speaking of IT, maybe someone with a better memory than me can help–I thought this part of the book took place in Derry? And that was why the townspeople weren’t very welcoming, and why the abuser husband was even worse than he might have been anywhere else…Am I remembering that incorrectly? Wonder why they changed it?
You are correct. The Derry stuff was dropped from the series (part of what moves the arrival date from '58 to '60) probably because it was considered fine for a book to do such an in-joke kind of thing for King’s fans but not for a show appealing to a wider audience.
Loved the book, and subscribed to Hulu solely for this series… Love what I am seeing thus far. I think they have accurately captured the feeling of the book, which has happened in many past King adaptations (Misery, Carrie, Shawshank, Green Mile)
