This wasn't too bad.

Not too bad ... yeah, that describes my reaction. I'm repeating things I've said elsewhere, but my main two disappointments with it were the casting and the direction. The casting wasn't out-and-out awful, just that most of the main actors seemed not quite right for the parts they were playing. And I've never been a fan of Mick Garris's work, suffice it to say.

If they do a remake (I've heard nothing about if one is planned), I'd like to see a better exploration of the Harold Lauder character. His troubled childhood and bitter disappointments go a long way toward explaining and perhaps even mitigating some of his nastiness, but a viewer of the 1994 miniseries who had never read the book would have no way of knowing that; the Harold Lauder presented there was just a pure, simple asshole.

I liked it quite a bit.

It was horrendous. Beyond cheesy. One of the absolute worst miniseries I have seen to this day and the worst Stephen King adaptation since ''Desperation''.