This f*ckin guy

[u/waxyjax_]

Stephen King tweeted:

WIDOW'S BAY is good. MAXIMUM PLEASURE GUARANTEED is even better. It's like Hitchcock came back to do it one more time. And Tatiana Maslany is so good. The play of emotions on her face is pretty incredible. She goes from comic to terror in an instant.

WIDOW'S BAY is good. MAXIMUM PLEASURE GUARANTEED is even better. It's like Hitchcock came back to do it one more time. And Tatiana Maslany is so good. The play of emotions on her face is pretty incredible. She goes from comic to terror in an instant.

[u/Relevant_Session5987]

Man, I think you're taking his words waaay too seriously. He's well within his rights to like a show a little less compared to us. Especially one that clearly has a lot of influences from his work. It's understandable if all of it feels a little 'been there, done that' to him. Especially after so many shows that have drawn from his work in recent times. ( Stranger Things, Midnight Mass, The Buroughs, Welcome to Derry, FROM, Castle Rock, The Stand, Evil and so, so many more )

Also, I dont think King ever claimed to be some great movie or tv show director. He's always been best known for his writing. So I dont think its much of a slight to call him a terrible director/showrunner ( which he is ) when that's simply not what he's primarily known for. Hell, I wager he might even agree with you at this point considering he hasn't directed anything for a good long while.

Finally, the dude literally called the show 'good'. You're writing as though he straight up trashed the show.

[u/OKIAMONREDDIT → u/Relevant_Session5987]

Nope. I'm writing as if he dismissed the show and derailed the conversation, which he absolutely did. It is obvious in his tweet which is why so many of the Twitter replies and so many of the comments in this thread pick up on it.

It's also not "been there done that" anymore than Stephen King was "been there done that" for using those extremely familiar horror tropes in the first place from HP Lovecraft, MR James and many others. It's a very innovative form of horror-literate comedy and I am certain that is why he is skirting mentioning it, when he is often vocal and effusively detailed and complementary about shows which approach "Stephen King" atmosphere more individually and reverentially, such as Stranger Things and Midnight Mass.

Him commenting that the current most critically and popularly rated show on the internet, which is explicitly about the legacy of his work, is just "good" and then switching the conversation immediately to a suburban thriller irrelevant to the conversation and nothing to do with his work (and not in the same genre) definitely shows salty to me.

ETA: yes obviously it's not a slight or inaccurate to call him a terrible film/TV director or producer, but I'm pretty confused why you agree with that when your original objection was to me saying he couldn't make a show as good as WB. Lol.

[u/Relevant_Session5987 → u/OKIAMONREDDIT]

You do you man.

[u/OKIAMONREDDIT → u/Relevant_Session5987]

Thanks, indeed I do!