Before Mike Flanagan’s Adaptation, There Was a Stephen King’s ‘The Mist’ TV Series

When Stephen King and frequent collaborator Mike Flanagan announced a new film adaptation of King’s 1980 novella The Mist, most of us thought back to the 2007 movie starring Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden and Andre Braugher as neighbors who become trapped inside a local supermarket when an eerie mist (and the monsters it hides) descends upon their small Maine town. But that Frank Darabont-directed film isn’t the only time King’s ultra-grim tale has been adapted; in 2017, Spike aired a 10-episode TV series based on the story, starring The Gilded Age‘s Morgan Spector and Golden Globe winner Frances Conroy.

One of the many post-Lost series about a group of mismatched strangers trying to survive a difficult situation, The Mist lasted only one season and was largely been memory-holed by the public, including Stephen King fans. But was the series actually so bad?