Critic Robert Lloyd could use a break from TV shows inspired by Stephen King. But not before ranking the nine he's reviewed from best to worst.
If you do anything long enough, patterns will emerge, and as I sat down to review the Apple TV+ miniseries “Lisey’s Story,” the latest television work, it struck me that I had been here before, or somewhere like it, not once but many times.
That number accounts for only half the King-based series and miniseries and movies that have aired since I started here, and a smaller fraction of. He’s a TV perennial — the first King television adaptation, the Tobe Hooper-directed “Salem’s Lot,” appeared in 1979, a year before Stanley Kubrick’s film of “The Shining.” His name sells tickets, or would if TV sold tickets.
Here, for fans of reviews of King-related television shows, are those earlier pieces, along with the review of “Lisey’s Story,” in descending order of esteem. Some shows are better than the books, some not as good.
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