​'11.22.63 'Recap episode 1: Cleaning out my closet

"You do not belong here."

Jake Epping (James Franco), a small-town teacher from Lisbon, Maine, is involved in the frustrations of the present. has dissolved his marriage, though not quite snappy. He can not help his favorite adult ed students, Harry Dunning, get ahead in life, partly because blunted bureaucracy has faith in Harry that Jake does. Jakes life does not fall apart, but losing battles on the advance of the future, and seems to be kind of lonely, somehow helplessly resigned state. He's the kind of man who does not take a stand, because he does not think he makes a lot of things can do to change.

Enter Al Templeton (Chris Cooper, have every scene he is in), Diner owner and friend Jake. Al appears from his pantry, dying inexplicably from cancer, even though he had only moments earlier in order. He easily Jake in his secret: he got a time tunnel in the back of his kitchen is, and enables him to travel to October 21 back in 1960. As Jake, like all Time skeptics of Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee up to the Marty McFly the future needs, convincing that this is real, Al has carve him letters in a mere sapling in 1960, when he returns to the present, the tree has grown old and gnarled, and his carving is set deep in the bark: the letters JFK.

This first episode of new series Hulu 11.22.63 wastes no time on the point: Al purpose in traveling back in time is the assassination of John F. Kennedy to stop. If JFK is alive, he theorized, his brother Robert are never shot, and Lyndon B. Johnson will never escalate the US intervention in Vietnam. Kennedy's death stop lead to a better life in the here and now, Al. But, dying, he can no longer there. He wants to finally give dominion over Jake to hand, and give him a chance to make a real difference.

All this means passes; "The Rabbit Hole" is immediately engaged, not least because Chris Cooper is electrified in its restrained role. His forthright delivery is hard to argue with, even if it the shaky rules of his journey cabinet Explanation: no matter how long you're gone, return just two minutes after you leave. You always go back to 21 October 1960. And if you go back to the past, delete everything you did on your previous trip. This is rather fun stuff - the rules magic Government always, especially if they do not explore too deeply. But like the novel which is capable of, J. J. Abrams '11 .22.63 is less about quantum mechanics and much more with people.

It is not the only Stephen King peppered in-joke about "The Rabbit Hole": there are at least a car that could be mistaken for Christine, and a moment Epping, he says someone's "number one fan." Is this wink, do not protrude to the Stephen King audience how much viewers remember that Abrams not away than other prestige projects of the King Club shy (as Stand By Me, Dolores Claiborne, and the condemned) tend to do. And he did not really. King's novel prizes won, ranked as one of the New York Times "best books of 2011, and was one of King's most popular novels of the last decade in terms of the King, this book is prestige, so away with a habit of tapping from the 1980s image of the author as a hack quickly.

"The Rabbit Hole" is a great introduction to this world and this story. The attention to detail is top notch (we get a crash course on basic Epping screenprinting T-shirt in 1960 do not fly, the food tastes better, and literally everyone is smoking), and the script is not painting in 1960 as an idyllic Wonderland: it requested from the colored toilets, for example, a wake-up call for anyone who was in a mixed race marriage. One of the interesting things I noticed was that Epping can just stroll in a Senators speech, without going through searches or being through metal detectors; I was not sure whether to be intimidated or scared. Judging by the cliffhanger involved with a mean man with a deadly hammer, it's both. I can not wait.

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