Loved it. Super intense and involving from the start. The Bronze Heart speech gave me chills. Lots was different from the novel and I'm A-okay with that-- it keeps Constant Readers like me guessing!
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I think the acting has been pretty good. James Franco has the charm of Jake. So far, the charm is best portrayed when he is looking around and getting his bearings on a situation, but it is there with his interactions with other characters, too. Am anxious to see the Jake/Sadie relationship, but I think he will get it right.I was so traumatized by the TV series of Under the Dome that I pledged not to watch 11/22/63. From what I have been reading here on the SKMB, it seems that even though the series has a lot of new content that differs from the book, people are generally liking the series. That's good. Not enough to get me to watch, but I'm happy it's being better received than UTD. For those who are watching and liking it, I have a questions: how is the acting? One big problem I had with UTD was that the acting was horrible. The actors read their lines as if they had learned them minutes before shooting and were using cue cards to help them remember the lines. Also, many of the scripts seemed to have been written on the fly. They had about as much cohesiveness as an episode of Scooby Doo. How are the scripts so far for 11/22/63? Is it well written?
Thanks!
Sounds promising. To give it a try I'd have to subscribe to Hulu, which I currently do not. I'm not sure I want to do that right now. We'll see...I think the acting has been pretty good. James Franco has the charm of Jake. So far, the charm is best portrayed when he is looking around and getting his bearings on a situation, but it is there with his interactions with other characters, too. Am anxious to see the Jake/Sadie relationship, but I think he will get it right.
Chris Cooper is great in just about everything.
And Josh Duhamel was excellent as Frank. He was completely believable. And very scary.
The writing is good, too. There are some things that you recognize as being taken straight from the book and some things that are completely different. But so far it is cohesive and not a jumbled mess like UtD was.
You should give it a try!
Thanks. Yes, that is true!CYB, it seems like you and I usually (almost always) have very similar likes and dislikes. Going by that, I think you'd enjoy 11.22.63.
The series (so far) has made a lot of changes, while staying very much to the core of the story. Exciting enough that you don't have to be a CR to enjoy it, but close enough to the jist of the book that us CRs aren't disappointed.
The acting...Chis Cooper can do no wrong in my eyes, so imo he's the best cast character. James Franco is James Franco - not the best, but he seems to be trying hard to get it right (for some reason his voice/mannerisms are very Johnny Depp-like to me in this role, maybe that's just me, I'm not a huge fan of either actor).
I like the dude who played Frank Dunning too, but I forget the actors name.
Thanks. Yes, that is true!
I'm not a Franco fan either. I think the actor you are referring to in the second highlighted line above is Josh Duhamel. He was on All My Children (which I was a HUGE fan of) for a few years and that's about all I know of him.
Thanks for responding!
Well written and the acting is incredible. Despite changes, the spirit of the book is alive and well in the series. Two thumbs up from me-- an ardent hater of UTD.I was so traumatized by the TV series of Under the Dome that I pledged not to watch 11/22/63. From what I have been reading here on the SKMB, it seems that even though the series has a lot of new content that differs from the book, people are generally liking the series. That's good. Not enough to get me to watch, but I'm happy it's being better received than UTD. For those who are watching and liking it, I have a questions: how is the acting? One big problem I had with UTD was that the acting was horrible. The actors read their lines as if they had learned them minutes before shooting and were using cue cards to help them remember the lines. Also, many of the scripts seemed to have been written on the fly. They had about as much cohesiveness as an episode of Scooby Doo. How are the scripts so far for 11/22/63? Is it well written?
Thanks!
Jeez... this is getting weird!Cue the Twilight Zone music...I was also a HUGE All My Children fan for years (around the time Kelly Ripa played Haley). Never missed it back in the day (I'm thinking that's before Josh Duhamel came along).