The Institute

At the time of this review there are four episodes available to watch.-

This show is pretty good. For me it mercifully buries a number of cliches under a layer of creative approach. I'm also a fan of the TV show "From" so use that to inform you what my tastes are like.

Some of the dialogue is cringe. Most of the acting is pretty good. One actor in particular is just reciting lines, Arlen So. Not really in the role at all.

Currently I'm looking forward to the next episode.

The story seemed very interesting But the acting threw me off I don't know if it's supposed to be like that, or it's just people with very little acting experience.

Like there's some scenes where it's supposed to be an action scene, but the characters just not reacting as much.

Someone would say that, the boy's character is like that, very calm but I don't know.

The music choice also in some scenes is wired, I watched the first episode, but couldn't force myself to watch the second.

Maybe it'll get better later, or maybe it's supposed to be for kids.

Any how, great show but not really my cup of tea.

I love this book. One of my favorites from King's work in the last 10 years. When they announced this adaptation, years ago at this point, I was thrilled! Who could have known at the time that it would be sold to another network, and then severally delayed for years. Still, I was eager for this series and had high hopes. Finally, the series is released, and even though it's early on, I am having a hard time seeing this getting better from here. The pacing of the first two episodes was awful. There was essentially zero character development, even for the main characters like Tim and Luke. Everything so far seems rushed, and the deviations from the books thus far seem unnecessary. Why make Nicky's character more involved than he was? Why change Tim's journey and make it all center in Dennison? Simple things like that don't seem to have an overall impact that necessitated a deviation from the story.

I do hope it gets better.

SK adaptations have always been a bit mediocre, but I think its because its impossible to get the way SK writes to transfer to the screen. This one is quite good, better than a lot I have seen and I have seen pretty much everything. I read this book, it was pretty good but a long term King theme / hobby horse so nothing new. He does a lot of ESP based books, Carrie, Firestarter to name two well known ones. I can't be bothered with the naval gazing novels about Authors he had a thing about for a while but this is a return to classic King and it is a perfectly reasonable show.

I was born early 90s.. I have seen almost every tv show released since 1999.

Feels like after the pandemic tv shows started to show cracks that were not as common when there were more "gate keepers".

Netflix model has caused the death of good writing, good directing, good acting and I feel like movies and tv shows may have peaked in the 2010s later end.

Movies and tv shows are not old as time, gone with the wind was 1939..it's 2025 and even with more money and higher picture quality...substance seems to be lacking?

MGM? What are they doing? The lighting of the scenes looks weird, I feel like I'm watching a YouTube show? I use to look forward to shows, Hollywood feels dead.