Hello everyone. Welcome to the Stephen King cast. One Man's Musings on the Works. One Man's Musings on the Works of Stephen King. Each week, I'll review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King in the chronological order of publication. And this week, actually, I am going to be talking about one of Stephen King's more recent movie adaptations. We'll be talking

about the long walk today. So I have a lot of thoughts to share on the long walk. But first,

I would like to read a listener email. So this is from longtime listener, Bryant, who is writing in response to a recent episode in which I discussed my thoughts on Welcome to Dairy It, colon, Welcome to Dairy, which is on HBO.

And Bryant wrote, loved your episode about Welcome to Dairy.

It clarified a lot of my own feelings about the show, which are on a very similar track as yours.

The military subplot is Caca Duty.

Imagine that running parallel to it.

Someplace, there's a cabal of warmongers sitting around discussing whether they can do anything to exploit the fear cycle or if they'll have to wait until

the next one. All that is, in my opinion, chump-level fan fiction. That it's well-cast and

well-played, makes it worse somehow. It reminds me of another HBO show, Dune Prophecy,

which is an utter squandering of that particular IP.

I'd hoped Derry would be more like another HBO IP Framing Operation Watchman, which did its own thing quite well.

Maybe welcome to Derry Will as well over time, but so far Bupkus.

Andy Mooseetti made something out of the first it, thanks to the

great source material. Here, he's rudderless. Regarding Neverflinch, and he's referring to the most

recent novel by Stephen King, nope, didn't care for it. It took me two-thirds of the novel to become

even slightly invested, and from

there it sailed, but looking back on it, even that final third was weak. I think it's the

worst novel king has ever published by a fairly wide margin. Even my previous least favorite of his

book's end of watch seemed essentially of a piece with his overall body of work.

Never Flinch just seemed ill-advised and poorly executed, occasional flashes of Kingian brilliance,

but they were few and far between. Here's hoping the third talisman novel is a return to form.

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