The Intriguing Chills of <i>The Mist</i>
Spike’s new series, adapted from a Stephen King novella, is an absorbing supernatural thriller.
Early in Stephen King’s 1980 novella, , a character in the small town of Bridgton, Maine, details a local legend called the Black Spring, where winter lingers so long that the ice on a frozen lake becomes as dark “as a rotten tooth.” It’s a neat metaphor for much of King’s work, wherein unnatural conditions expose hidden decay. But in the new Spike adaptation of , created by Christian Torpe and airing Thursday, the ugly side of Bridgton (renamed Bridgeville) is on full display long before the
