Well I am glad to see we're fundamentally in agreement here. I actually wrote a longer series last year about ABC's collaboration with Stephen King druing the 1990s when the two worked together to put together a fairly solid collection of adaptations of King's work as well as some well-done if flawed original pieces.

Considering how much of King's work would never have made the standards of network television I'm actually impressed how good so much of it was. I've come to think over the years that given the sheer volume of King's work television has always been a better medium it for it them film overall. There's evidence that in the last decade cable and streaming have realized that: Mr. Mercedes was adapted into a multi-season series for DirectTV and The Outsider came to HBO back in 2020 and was fundamentally superb. The Institute, a more recent King novel is scheduled to be adapted for MGM plus sometimes in 2025.

aND GIVEN how gifted Mike Flanagan is as a writer of limited series and horror for Netflix he may very well be the right man to adapt King's megnum opus The Dark Tower for television. I admit I have doubts even he can do it: there's a section starting in Book 5 that makes me truly wonder if this series is unfilmable. (Even some of King's constant readers are still pissed at the twist twenty years.) But he clearly has a gift fot it and Im willing to tgive him some latitude.

Streaming has been showing that it is a good format for it: we've seen adaptaitions not only of 11.22.63 but the intriguing Castle Rock. Perhaps some of the works that have yet to be filmed would work better as series - I could see The Talisman working far better as a limited series than it ever could as a film. Maybe the same could be done for Gwendy's Button Box a trilogy King collaboated with Richard Chizmar.