the majority of stephen king short story be little gem and with original idea that do not take a long time to develop while basically lean and mean he set them up quickly in a scarce number of page and you read em and and youre finish before you know you have begin . theyre like the equivalent of a carton of mcdonald fry they taste really good and you know there not much nutritional value in them ( re represent from a literary standpoint and they do not say much about the universal human condition ) and but youre still gon na scarf em down and just do not be a pig and go for the extra super size portion and fill up on too much grease ( too much grease be a metaphor for the prose in king novel when find yourself read one of them and say come on enough with the pop cultural observation or clever yankee aside get on with the story already . ) he have compile four book of short story collection . i have read them all from nightshift to the late and everything eventual and and they all display an efficiency of get to the point which be sometimes sorely lack in his tome size novel . but his short story never overstay their welcome . which bring u to the tv adaptation of nightmare and dreamscapes . how in the hell do they ( the series producer ) get a green light to turn story that usually average 15 page into 50 minute episode . i will tell you how two word stephen king . story with his name on them probably do not come cheap and and one hour show enable more advertising than half hour one and so . what should have be an anthology of mostly 23 or 24 minute episode be turn into double that length and and double the commercial time . ka ching . i be not go to waste time synopsizing the plot of these story this review suppose you have already read the story and or or see the show while what follow be merely my gut reaction to what tnt present . of the four installment so far and here my ten cent assessment ( from first to worst ) represent battleground not a classic by any mean and but hey and how could anyone argue with keep william hurt from open his trap by film this episode without a single line of dialog . and the tongue in cheek reference and destruction of the killer zuni doll from trilogy of terror prove to me the producer ( and the writer of the teleplay and who be richard matheson son the writer of tot ) know their mission with this one be to make the action deadly and yet at the same time and fun . it take longer to get to hurt apartment than it should have and but i think it fulfil it objective . positive umney last case like this one primarily because of william h. macy performance . i think the writer or umney should have appear in the story sooner into the private eye or umney beginning because he be the actual reality of the story and and anyone familiar with the king short story ( probably half and if not more of the audience ) know the chandleresque set up be due to get interrupt by the writer reality and so let get on with it already and and cut out the cute and clever hard boil repartee private dick banter already . once the writer or umney family tragedy begin to reveal though and i think the show develop an emotional connection that make the viewer ( me and at least ) and feel sympathy for the real life macy attempt to escape his sorrow by usurp his fictional creation excite life . 6/10 the end of the whole mess uh and this title be how i felt about this episode when it be over . after twenty minute and i be ready to scream at the tv ok and we get it already and the young brother be a mega mensa genius prodigy extraordinaire . we know from ron livingston talk to the camera ( time be run out for me not fast enough and i thought ) that the young whiz kid be go to discover something really bad for humanity we know this because he already build an airplane but almost die because he couldn not steer it out of the path of a tree while and and he blow up his chemistry lab while teach himself chemistry ( to think the end of the world could have be prevent if only this kid have some more parental supervision ) . so much time be waste on establish the uber genius of henry thomas and when we finally get to the resolution of his discovery the end of the world through unintended idiocy how much do we get to see of the world end . a cheap video shot of a reporter start to forget what she report on and and brief radio broadcast announce the day of judgement be at hand . oh and and the brother parent drool and sing old song . my point be and if your story be really about the end of the whole mess ( world ) and i wan na see the mess a it go up in flame and crash and burn . talk about end with a whimper and indeed . negative crouch end this episode just tick me off totally . i could have live with the take forever exposition of the happy couple arrive at their hotel and play slap and tickle and have lunch and and get a taxi ( that be half the episode right there ) and if once they finally cross over into crouch end the episode deliver the chill and but it fail miserabley . not only wasn not it scary and it be practically laughable . ooh and look a kitty . wait and it turn . oh my god . look at it scary eye . uh huh . they could have go a long way towards film the crouch end sequence at night instead of in daylight and too . thing you might unintentionally find funny can become scary when you see them in the night shadow . but i guess the budget wasn not high enough to shoot at night on the fake london set they slap together for this one . on the page and this be a very scary story about tourist wander into place they shouldn not and the terrible thing that might lurk just around a corner there . the only terror in this adaptation be the directing and act those be truly horrify . negative overall series average ( so far ) represent 4/10 .