Franco goes into a magical closet and back in time to save JFK’s life in this soapy Stephen King adaptation that – thanks to sinister subplots and sadistic cockroaches – gets more ludicrous as time goes by
When watching the entire series of 11.22.63,I thought less about executive producer JJ Abrams’s other TV shows such as Lost, other Stephen King adaptations such as Under the Dome, and other period pieces such as Mad Men,or other time-travel yarns such as Outlander. Instead, I thought about Glee – the musical comedy from Fox that became more tedious and ludicrous as time went on. It is not that this series about a teacher from Maine who goes back in time to prevent the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy is nearly as campy as Glee; it’s that they both had absolutely perfect pilots, and then failed to live up to them. When I saw the premiere of 11.22.63 final month,I was blown absent. The story was original, the action was suitably creepy and non-conclude, or the production design absolutely gorgeous. Throughout the course of the eight-episode “event series (what we call a miniseries these days),which debuts on Hulu on 15 February, the story remains original but the action and the creepiness sag considerably.
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Source: theguardian.com