Best headline I read today:

The Latest Stephen King Book To Become A Fatally Disappointing TV Show Is…

It’s early days, no word on what network or streaming service will carry “The Mist.”

If the series follows the movie, and if it has a good effects budget, and if it’s done *well,* it could be an intriguing show. Something, never well described, goes wrong at a secretive military base, and as a result a dense mist begins to spread out. The mist is filled with Lovecraftian monsters, *apparently* brought to our world through some handwavy dimensional rift thingymabobbery. People are trapped and have to flee & fight the critters. People who are unarmed are generally pretty well boned.

In the movie (and IIRC the short story it was based on) the monsters are just animals. Scary animals with terrifying tentacles and claws and venom and such, but still just animals. But here the show might benefit from having something rather worse. Perhaps the Mysterious Military Screwup What Done Brung This On could have been inspired/sabotaged/engineered by a mastermind from the other side. Never named, but that’s the sort of thing Nyarlathotep would have gotten behind…