There's a common phenomenon in recent US TV series, and that is, they get some great source material (Stephen King for example) and instead of breaking it up into episodes that contain actual story, the try to pad it out with hours of extraneous material so they can milk more episodes out of it, so a story that may rollick along, a fantastic whodunnit (as this story is) gets spread so thin, and filled with so many boring redundant scenes, that it's hard to maintain interest. Having said that, this TV adaptation would be perfect if it had been more tightly edited, and adhered more closely to Stephen King's version. I want all killer, no filler please! I want all fun and adventure and mystery, and no unnecessary and pointless scenes to pad it out endlessly. It could have been a 9 or even a 10, but the eternal padding makes it a 6.5.