Stephen King's 11.22.63 series picked up by Hulu (starring James Franco)

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I've watched the first 3 eps and while its entertaining there are some things I've major issues with.
1. In the third ep its all of a sudden 1962. It felt like 2 months had past, at the most.
2. Jake kills the butcher in Holden (?), walks out of the house bloody with something like 20 people seeing him. Its a small town and everybody knows he's a stranger and many people in town know his name. He still uses the same name after that.
3. While it doesn't make for good TV to have a character alone at most times it makes no sense that Jake has a partner now.
4. Time being really selective about when pushing back. It seems only to be a factor when its directly connected to JFK
 

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Something that has bothered me is that the show has almost completely glossed over Jake's role as a teacher and the relationships he developed with the students. While it isn't super integral to the story, it was a big part of the book and it would've given Jake's character more depth.

I understand they probably wanted to give Jake a partner (Bill) because being alone doesn't make for great TV, but they could've focused on the teaching aspect more to overcome that. The whole Bill angle was just stupid. Stephen King was an executive producer for the show. I'm surprised he didn't shut that idea down.
 

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Where can I catch the shows,

I'm reading the book now and it's pretty good, I'm on Chapter 27, haven't finished it yet.
 

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I never read the book, so I didn't know what the ending would be like, but after watching, I felt a bit disappointed.

Still, it was a good series. 7.5/10
 
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