The series starts off well enough, the first couple of episodes are good. But then it slows down and becomes repetitive and boring. A very large part of the series is shot indoors, mostly in homes where people have not yet discovered the concept of electrical lighting. As a result, a lot of time is taken up by black screens on which you can barely make out any details.

As if this was not enough, the camera guy seems to love blurry shots. You know how sometimes the photographer uses depth of field to creatively blur the background to bring the subject into focus? Well, that isn't an occasional trick here, that is pretty much the entire 8 episodes so far. Not only that, there are some scenes which are 100% blurred, nothing in focus at all. I did a double take the first time that happened, but after it happened half a dozen more times, I realized it wasn't a problem with my TV, this is deliberate. If you wear strong prescription glasses and take them off, that is what it looks like.

Besides saving money on locations (for all I can tell, almost the entire series might have been shot in just the one house, it's so dark we can't really tell rooms apart. It also saves on the actors, because there's no point emoting with your face when all the audience will see is a dark featureless blob where your face is supposed to be.

There are some very substantial changes from the Stephen King story. I don't think they improve the story, but I'm willing to go along with them. But I just can't get past constantly peering at a dim screen, usually with loud, "suspenseful" music playing in the background. Tricks like that might keep your attention for a few minutes, but not for several hours worth of episodes.