What is it?
The 2016 American science fiction thriller miniseries 11.22.63 that was based on the book 11/22/63 by Stephen King.
What is it about?
This is how Hulu describes this miniseries:
Imagine having the power to change history.
Would you journey down the “rabbit hole?” This eight –part event series follows Jake Epping (James Franco), an ordinary high school teacher, presented with the unthinkable mission of traveling back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.
Jake travels to the past in order to solve the most enduring mystery of the 20th century: who killed JFK, and could it have been stopped?
But as Jake will learn, the past does not want to be changed.
And trying to divert the course of history may prove fatal.
Final Thoughts
The visual quality and acting in this miniseries was better than I had expected, but they changed so much from the book that they messed things up in my opinion.
I think that it was a mistake for them to change so many things, it basically became its own thing in some ways, it would have been better if they had followed the book more closely without contradicting parts of it.
They created characters who did not exist, they changed some characters, they changed the order of some events, they skipped some things that I think were worth showing and they even referenced a few things confusingly without explanation, they had some characters doing and saying things that they did not do or say and that conflicts with their character in the book, et cetera.
Even with them messing up with those things, I would still give it a 3.5, and one part near the end made me tear up a bit to my surprise; but the book is without a doubt better than this miniseries.
The end,
-John Jr
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