I know the two male lead actors from many other excellent shows. Bateman from Ozark, and Mendelssohn from Bloodline. My reason for posting this early review is to give a perspective from a huge lifelong S. King fan I literally began with Carrie and Salem's Lot. Most movies and shows about King novels have been butchered by others or even asking himself. I don't know if he's involved with this series, but if this series is as slow, boring, and outright confusing as the novel was. It will be a disappointment for me. I'm hoping those who are in charge of this material have chosen to keep the great suspense, foreshadowing, and good vs. evil when sometimes evil wins method King does so well in most of his novels whether horror like It or plain drama with a bit extra like The Green Mile. So far in my humble opinion, director and screenplay writer Frank Darabont who developed The Walking Dead for TV which were the best three series of that long running, completely lost series has become. Point being, with the Hollywood affordable CGI and so many other new technologies to create limitless possibilities, there should be no reason for poor or bad adaptations of King novels. His eldest son Joe Hill has produced excellent novels which have been turned into excellent movies, or series such as Horns and NOS4A2 and most recently...Locke & Key. All this writing to let anyone interested know where my point of view comes from as a baseline. Plus my own personal hope this series will be better than its novel counterpart.