I'm a HUGE King's fan and enjoyed all his books and adaptations, but this was a big disappointment.

Most reviews here are stating a masterpiece, yet they refer to the first 2-3 episodes that yes, were predicting a great show.

But all episodes after the 3rd were a torture to watch. With a lot of effort I managed to get up to 7th episode and couldn't take it any longer. I jumped to the last and fast forwarded just to say that I watched till the end (and remained boring as hell).

Haven't read this book but the show, man, was bad.

As others mentioned, it could be just a mini series of 5 episodes or two movies.