Finished that 11.22.63 mini-series with James Franco I mentioned earlier. My wife discovered it was based on a 2011 novel by Stephen King of the same name. Made total sense when she told me that. King usually has ideas and premises I find interesting, and his stories have a good narrative structure to them.
I kinda would like to read the book now, to see if Franco's character is written to be a guy who perpetually makes dumb decisions, or if it was just a bad adaptation, or just careless writing in the first place. It was kind of an odd show in that I did like it--the story, the moral at the end, the characters grabbed my attention....all that stuff. And yet, the main character I found really annoying, because he did so many stupid things that he should've seen were gonna go sideways. Makes me wonder if his actions make more sense in the book, or if he was just supposed to be a book-smart, no-common-sense person.
Anyway, I liked it pretty well. Wouldn't recommend you drop everything and go watch it, but if you ever had 8 episodes of time to kill, I found it a plenty decent story.
