Brainless sluggishness turns what could have been a decent little thriller with a halfway decent cast into mush. There's "slow," and then there's pointless, agonizing, painfully wrongheaded shots where we follow trucks across fields, where we see a man dragging a milk can, where we watch a man fill a trash bag with leaves until... eventually... a truck drives up to him so its driver can talk to him, so that we can eavesdrop on a conversation that adds very little to what we already know or surmise.

If you go to any spot at random in the series the odds are extremely good that nothing will be happening, and that nothing will be happening for a while, or that whatever we're watching will take 2x to 3x as long as it needs to to unfold, or that most of a conversation will be pointless, banal, or repeat something we learned previously.

In short, the worst of Stephen King's bloated, bland writing translated to the screen without wit or any understanding that film is not writing.

It will take more than a minute to show a guy reading a book in a prison. It'll take another minute to watch a different guy show up at a barn after pointlessly stopping to whine about having to go to the barn, wizz on the ground, go into the barn, see nothing, maybe see something in the shadows that startles him, see him react, see him yell something several times, then we'll cut to boring, low budget credits, then to a cop watching a scene on his laptop we've already scene four times before we cut to the previous guy agonizing over whatever it was that stung him in the barn.

For an ordinary conversation in a diner there will be all sorts of pointless cutting, extreme interior long shots that add nothing to the scene, an insert at an angle so oblique it only serves to distort what we're meant to see. The series gets nothing right, finally, pushing each episode to an hour when each could probably be 40 minutes without losing more than a trivial amount of actual content.

Oh, and it'll typically be underlit even with contrast and brightness cranked to 100.

Skip this dog, or turn the captions on and keep your finger tapping the fast forward button.