stephen king version of the danish miniseries the kingdom and about a hospital fill with oddball and ghost and manages to render what have be a funny and thoughtful and and eerie story into a boring piece of dog poop . skip it and make the effort to find the original by lars von trier and you will be glad you do . in his other work and king be good at occasionally create scary moment and some even fill with prolonged dread while yet what make his novel readable and other television project such a rise red watchable when wad through the banal character and plot point and scene and be here lack and which be strange . it may be explain by his inability to create the subtle form of eeriness on display in his source material and which use quiet and stillness and not a the preface to a suddenly scream and but a soft murmur . king doesn not have the patience and and instead fill up the spooky quiet with incessant yammering . go as well be the often comic and or or obsessive and yet believably human character which be the backbone of the original series by lars von trier . king instead treat u to bore clichés reminiscent of one dimensional character from his other work . the charmingly arrogant and scheming and bluster doctor stig helmer and one of the original series many treasure and be rob of his intelligence and turn into dr. stegman and a craven moron whose own arrogance and bluster and scheming way would have seem too broad on m. a. s. h. king can not stand to create mere a hole and they must be inhumanly evil and stupid . yosemite sam be more nuanced and receive less cloyingly saccharine comeuppance from his adversary and although yosemite comeuppance be distinguish by be funny represent no such luck with stegman and and the kingdom hospital be plague by king inability to write intentionally funny line . ( unfortunately the hilariously awful simile which turn up in his prose work have not appear to have make it into his script and but there be laugh to be find here in the dialogue . ) we be also treat to element familiar to reader of king represent tedious interior monologue while annoy sing by various character while inhuman and snarl bad guy while a wise cracking and delightlessly sassy god character ( here and a giant anteater ) while and write which leave nothing to be spell out by the audience . this last quality be perhaps the most annoying of king a writer and his inability to allow for ambiguity and to let something remain less than obvious .