![]() With only negligible deviations from its source material, 11.22.63 recounts the time-traveling odyssey of Jake Epping ( James Franco), an English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine whose shaggy head of hair and goatee are destined to disappear once he journeys back to the ‘60s, where men don dapper suits and hats, and sport cleanly cropped hair and shaven jawlines. Buoyed by a period-piece narrative that, over the course of eight-plus hours, it clearly and evocatively dramatizes with equal emphasis on what-if fantasy, edge-of-your-seat suspense, and subtle emotional depth, it’s the best (and most faithful) King translation since 2007’s big-screen The Mist-as well as a sterling maiden effort by Hulu to join the ranks of Netflix, Amazon, HBO and AMC at the Peak TV big-kid’s table. Abrams) about a man who travels to 1960 on a mission to save President John F. 11.22.63’s ominous opening-credit theme is punctuated by an atonal final note-a discordant tone that speaks to the less-than-happily-ever-after course charted by this 8-part mini-series based on Stephen King’s acclaimed 2011 novel (and produced by J.J. ![]()
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