Teleplay writer Owen King knows when to shut up and let his father's work talk for itself. So we get Harold as a defiant rebel, and Stu's "falling" that makes at least some sense. Sadly, it means some of the stuff that Glen and Ray do is unsupported because previous teleplayers failed at the switch. Glen had painkillers? But something is better than nothing. I guess.
Ditto for Abigail, who we don't get all the pride that she says she suffered from. Rush, rush, rush, goes the script up to this point.
The sex between Flagg and Nadine is downplayed from Stephen King's relatively graphic description of Nadine's rape, to a Skinemax softporn 2020 "softer" portrayal of Flagg and Nadine going at it in the desert. Which is a hallucination of Flagg's penthouse, for no reason that I can tell.
Like I said, for the most part Owen King lets the story speak for itself. A lot of it is either Harold's written monologue, or the four walking through the desert to Vegas or the group driving through the streets of Vegas in Lloyd's limo. There are still some hokey bits, like playing "I Cast a Spell on You" as Flagg drives Nadine to Vegas. And what's with the continual camera shots of Flagg's smiley-face pin?
Overall, "The Walk" isn't bad. It avoids all the time jump tricks and most of the changes that the production staff has made in the previous six episodes so-so. Which makes "The Walk" stick out like a sore thumb for being truer to the source material. But better something than nothing.
But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. What do you think?
Ditto for Abigail, who we don't get all the pride that she says she suffered from. Rush, rush, rush, goes the script up to this point.
The sex between Flagg and Nadine is downplayed from Stephen King's relatively graphic description of Nadine's rape, to a Skinemax softporn 2020 "softer" portrayal of Flagg and Nadine going at it in the desert. Which is a hallucination of Flagg's penthouse, for no reason that I can tell.
Like I said, for the most part Owen King lets the story speak for itself. A lot of it is either Harold's written monologue, or the four walking through the desert to Vegas or the group driving through the streets of Vegas in Lloyd's limo. There are still some hokey bits, like playing "I Cast a Spell on You" as Flagg drives Nadine to Vegas. And what's with the continual camera shots of Flagg's smiley-face pin?
Overall, "The Walk" isn't bad. It avoids all the time jump tricks and most of the changes that the production staff has made in the previous six episodes so-so. Which makes "The Walk" stick out like a sore thumb for being truer to the source material. But better something than nothing.
But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. What do you think?
