The Institute

If viewed from the perspective of someone who hasn't read the book, the show isn't bad. It has a slow pace, but it's all buildup to The Institute "universe". There's not much horror (other than the nefarious reasons for the Institutes existence), no blood or gore. No monsters other than the humans lacking empathy and humanity. Acting is good, and I did become interested in the characters and what's to become of them as the series progresses. It's too early to tell if the writers will pull any punches, or let us have it.

The series may not be as good as the book or as true to its characters, but it's worth watching.

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.

So far not that good. The highlight of this show is watching Ben Barnes strut his stuff up and down main street. The acting is very mediocre at best. The story line has a major flaw. But as I said watching ben Barnes is a delight, he is the only thing this show has to offer for entertainment. But each to their own.

I will preface this with the fact that I have not read the books the other reviews mentioned. For me this is good as if I read a book often I am sad when a show or movie is made since sometimes they change key story aspects or I am to aware of nuanced things being left out. The downside is if i watch a show I like I can never read the book because the show has predefined the character and story for me. I'm weird that way. Now on to the review.

This I feel is a pretty good show. The concept is not overly far fetched, if we did have these abilities of course someone would want to exploit it. I'm hoping it sticks around for a bit as so few good shows are on now a days. The acting is pretty on point as well with the cast and I'm excited to see where the show will take things. I also like that it has a feel to it that no cast member is safe, this adds to the show and suspense factor.