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I started out enjoying this adaptation but by the end was just waiting for it to end. Gave me soap opera vibes.

Bizarre mini-series that doesn't seem to really know what its purpose is. I was expecting it to be a survival show about people holding up during a winter storm, but that's not really what it's about. It's about some demon guy killing people and wanting to steal a child. First off, it has the patented outdated horrendous Stephen King dialogue. If you know his work you know he uses the same lines over and over again. He has never written unique characters because they're always in every single book he writes. Even the names, like having a character named "Ralphie" is so old. If this book was written in the 50's maybe you'd be calling a kid that, but it wasn't, so it all just feels so weirdly dated. So this demon kills **** reason behind it, of course. Then he keeps telling people their secrets just to be an ass. Then he demands they give him a child. Even though he has super powers and can just do whatever he wants, he holds a lottery to see who has to give up the kid. And wouldn't you know it, the only person that protests to the lottery has to give up the kid. A better ending would have been if, when he's giving out the marbles, they're all white, and this was all just a test to see how much they valued human life. Then he leaves and everyone feels stupid. I mean that's what a competent writer would come up with that, this is Stephen King we're talking about..