I have to admit, sheepishly, that I liked this series. I am NOT a fan of the author and his work, but this one worked for me. Martha, who hates sci fi, actually watched this with me. Now that is just about the same as the Rapture happening last week! She actually LIKED it. The Randall Flagg character was done rather well. If you read the author, you run across Randall more than once.

Mediocre at best. A lot of people I know regard it as King's best work, but I always saw it as, in part, a bit of a ripoff of LOTR. The acting in this series wasn't that great, and I found it to be tedious overall.