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Stephen King's "11/22/63" (SPOILERS) - El Dingo - 09-19-2016
Those of you who subscribe to 'Hulu' would put this in the 'Streaming' thread.
I got it via DVD from NetFlix.
I'm Stephen King's #1 fan. I have a sledgehammer ready if he ever swings by. /JK Stephen - please swing by and we'll discuss how "The Long Walk" could work as a film.
"11/22/63" is a sociology study disguised as a suspense/sci-fi story. The premise is that the protagonist is convinced that preventing John F. Kennedy's assassination (11/22/63) will usher in a Utopia and save the world.
The book was very long. The time-traveling protagonist can jump back-and-forth in time whenever he wants. The catchi is that his time portal is hard-coded to connect to a single point in history (fall 1960). If he screws up he just walks back through the portal and starts over. This is a fantastic time-travel mechanic, like "Groundhog Day", but you actually age while the world around you stands still.
The other catch is that your Liberal-ass ethics don't fly in 1960.
Having lived in Texas for a year (early '80s) I experienced some of this with my earring and dyed hair. Any interaction with rednecks could explode into "Walking Tall" violence.
Anyway, King's book does a great job of dropping a character from 2016 into 1960 Texas and forcing them to live there for three years to achieve their goal. Luckily he's a straight, white male so can literally get away with murder if the cops like him. He has to decide who to trust. He makes friends and enemies. He lives his life.
The mini-series does a good job of painting the picture. The acting is decent, the sets and costumes are great. The end is rushed and somewhat unfulfilling, which is fine if you read the book and realized the journey was the end, not a TV final episode.
Good stuff!