Always left unsatisfied....*POS SIBLE SPOILERS*.....


I don't know why, but after watching each episode I'm always left unsatisfied. Well, that's not strictly true: I do know why, and it's mainly because often the endings either don't make sense or simply too abrupt or both. This was the case with Umney's Last Case, Road Virus Heads North and The End of the Whole Mess.

It's very annoying, because I find that there is often some great build up, I'm wanting to know whats going to happen next and everything, and then it just ends, with no sense of resolution. This was the case in Umney's last Case (no pun intended), where it just ends, just as it was getting going. In Road Virus to Nowhere, it was great, very tense etc, but we get no explanation why the guy killed himself or why he was going on a rampage or ANYTHING that might help explain it. In The End of the Whole Mess, again it just kind of ended and I was left thinking, 'well most of that was great, but ultimately, what was the point?'

It's a shame because I think the episodes have a great amount of potential - great actors, really interesting stories, but the ends just don't deliver and leaves me feeling unsatisfied and wanting more. I haven't read much Stephen King, but I'm hoping the stories aren't like this :S

I must say I prefer Masters Of Horror, but I guess they are trying to do different things. MOH is all in the name, trying to be a horror, whereas NMAD is going for a more supernatural thing (jokey is the wrong word, but the feeling that the title music evokes, whereas MOH does have a true Horror style of music as its theme).

Does anyone else agree with me about the endings? Perhaps some people could shed more light on what is happening in the stories?

Thanks!

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I'm left disappointed by yet another Stephen King adaptation. Some great stories done on the cheap with poor acting and inexplicable changes. If anything I'd say the real problem with this series was the hour long running time for each of the stories. Most (all?) of the original stories don't even take that long to read... The result was all the stories having unnecessary extra elements added and periods where the story was just... drifting. Battleground for example could have been a great half hour (or less) - the action in the book plays out in no more than about 30 minutes.

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