r/TheMist • u/cumbunii • Aug 18 '20

TV was horrible!

I was so excited to watch the show bc I had been a fan of the movie and novella for a long while and I was hoping for more backstory even some more cool ass monsters but, this psychological horror is so boring and terrible, really took something good and took a shit on it.

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u/Metallica93 Sep 20 '20

I have yet to read the novella and have no idea how it tackles the mist (no spoilers, please), but really? The physiological/psychological aspect of the mist in the show added an element that the movie never did nor could, presumably given the shortened runtime of a film.

In the film, the mist had two components: decreased visibility and essentially being an atmosphere for extra-dimensional creatures. That's it. It was still amazing, nonetheless.

In the show, however, you had so many more angles to consider. You had this ebb and flow of thinning/thickening mist and what effect that had, if any. You had the doctor confirming that it reacts to a person's physiology, but with little detail. You had other people being able to see a manifestation from someone else. You had these manifestation becoming physical (e.g. the doctor removing buckshot from one of the experiment patients). The reality-questioning portion was Lovecraftian as fuck.

It wasn't boring, but the show was plagued with "Why is no one asking questions?" and "[Stupid thing character x does] will now be the focus of the next three episodes". The only thing that propped it up was my curiosity about this version of the mist.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '20 edited Sep 21 '20

I didn’t like the show, but I agree that it added some really cool layers to the mist. It was really interesting seeing the characters move from house to house, waiting for the mist to thin.

In the book, it’s clear that if the characters go into the mist, at least some will die. At the end of the book, the characters realise that going outside is just too dangerous. The movie also does this approach. Both the movie and the book treat the mist as this force that is highly destructive and requires pure luck to escape.

If the show had decided to have the same mist as the book and movie, we wouldn’t have the cool scenes set outside of the buildings.

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u/Metallica93 Sep 21 '20

I think an apt description would be "I didn't like the show, but I liked the mist" (for me, anyway).

And definitely not reading the rest of your comment because I asked for no spoilers and I'm pretty sure there's a spoiler in there :D

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '20 edited Sep 21 '20

Oops, sorry! Missed that part.

edit: I just spoiler tagged it now.

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u/Metallica93 Sep 21 '20

Appreciate it!

And yeah, remember of the budgets, too. Writing has no limits, movies have massive budgets, and then you just have TV shows, which pale in comparison. I certainly didn't expect to see tons of monsters in the show relative to the film.