![]() ![]() The family implodes just as a thick fog begins to roll into town. Without getting into too many spoilers, let’s just say their daughter, Alex (Gus Birney), goes to a high school party, and things go badly. But those two ideas shouldn’t be mutually exclusive, and through the first hour, they are. It’s an easy jump to see how one would take a complicated tale of human morality - “‘Lord of the Flies’ with cool monsters,” as film director Frank Darabont once described it - and turn it into a sci-fi conspiracy story. ![]() ![]() In short, it’s less dynamic and more predictable. The show is very much concerned with what’s in the mist, and its pilot operates mainly to make you wonder what other gross stuff will come out of it. In the new Spike original series inspired by Stephen King’s novella, the mist is about bugs. The point is how the mist makes the characters react how fear of the unknown can drive instinctual reactions, and how those reactions reveal their true selves. Among spiritual and existential themes, the mist is about fear, and how we deal with fear. “ The Mist” employs a classic head-fake horror structure: Despite its characters constantly screaming, “What’s in the mist?” it really doesn’t matter what’s actually within the mysterious fog that takes over a small, Maine town. ![]()
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