The Tommyknockers: A Look Back At King’s Most Polarizing Miniseries

The Tommyknockers is not the worst adaptation I’ve ever seen– at least not yet. Let’s be honest here for a second, it is well-known that this book was written when King was still in the throws of stardust. I mean, he says himself that there’s a really good book underneath all the sort of spurious energy that cocaine provides and it should have been about 350 pages, not 700. Watching the miniseries, you can see in a variety of ways where allegories of usage are beaming through, but that’s not uncharacteristic for King.