My thoughts after finishing this first season (Spoilers, obviously):
Not bad.
Really, in all honesty.
It was entertaining … Enthralling…
Brutally violent…
Fun and only somewhat pretentious/virtue-signaling, with enough respect for the source material to make the experience palatable for any legitimate fan (of the book, or the 90’s film, or both).
I don’t care that the show-creators changed the time period, or the skin-color of Louis (and little miss evil/Claudia), or that they jumped into the future to give us an older and exceptionally cynical version of the Interviewer.
It’s just a new telling of an old story. And it was pretty damn cool.
I mean, some dude got his jaw torn out of his face in the finale. And maybe you were streaming this, but I caught that shit on Xfinity cable, commercials and all, and what more could a simpleton horror fan like me ask for from a cable-tv presentation?
I still prefer the book, but I don’t feel like I wasted my time watching this series. And I am gladly looking forward to what comes next in this contemporary interpretation.