The Mysterious Story of Harlan Williams Many years ago, when I was very young, I made my first attempt to watch The Golden Years. Then I had 40 minutes. Years later, I tried again. Good luck this time. It is difficult to watch the whole series, in parts - reluctance. This time I knew that if I interrupted once, I would not turn it on again.
"Golden Years" is the first series or film for which Stephen King wrote a script without having his own original source. Maybe that's what killed the show. I am sure that if the King had written the novel "Golden Years" with the same plot, it would have turned out very good. And the subsequent film adaptation would have succeeded. And here it looks as if he was thinking: No one will read this script very much anyway. There's no need to pull in. In subsequent similar projects, he corrected: "Lunatics", "The Red Rose Mansion", "The Diary of Helen Rimbauer" and "The Royal Hospital" look very decent. He learned to write scripts quite quickly and well ( "The Storm of the Century" this is vivid proof).
I was saddened by the depressive mood of the series. Very sad and even poor scenery depressing. I have nothing to say about acting. It seems to be playing, but why is unclear. The author himself as a bus driver did not please me much, unlike the rest of his cameos. The plot is extremely slow. Something clear began to happen only an hour and a half after the start. I even got the impression that everything (dialogues, mise-en-scene and even a few plot twists) was invented on the go. While filming. Too many holes and my yawning.
The result is generally disappointing. Watching the series to the end for me, as a big fan of Stephen King, became a kind of painful commitment. Should you force yourself to watch a very sluggish action for 4 hours? You decide. Some people liked it.
4 out of 10