The Mist (2017)

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Season 1
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 25 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 25
  3. Negative: 5 out of 25
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Critic Reviews

  1. The Lincoln Journal Star
    Reviewed by: Jeff Korbelik
    Jun 19, 2017
    58
    This one’s OK, but not great. Transitions in the narrative are a bit clunky and the acting is on B level. Still, it offers some summertime horror thrills.
  2. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
    Jun 15, 2017
    58
    The pilot episode doesn’t inspire hopes that Torpe can handle a nuanced mix of horror and metaphorical context, but that’s okay--sometimes summer calls only for a simple order of mildly entertaining gore.
  3. Los Angeles Daily News
    Reviewed by: Rob Lowman
    Jun 22, 2017
    50
    So far, The Mist hasn’t given viewers much to care about. It’s all pretty standard plot thickeners. On the other hand, it’s not badly done--atmospheric, so to speak, if unseen horrors are your thing.
  5. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Neil Genzlinger
    Jun 21, 2017
    50
    If you’ve made a television horror series, you probably don’t want to see it described in a review as comfort food. Yet that’s how the first episode of The Mist registers.
  6. Boston Herald
    Reviewed by: Mark A. Perigard
    Jun 20, 2017
    50
    Like King’s last TV series, “Under the Dome,” The Mist would seem to have a short shelf life. One hour with these people and you’ll be rooting for the critters.
  7. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Jeff Jensen
    Jun 19, 2017
    50
    A fine cast, but the generic characters and shock-lite scares don't impress. [23 Jun 2017, p.59]
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  8. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: David Wiegand
    Jun 19, 2017
    50
    The show still feels dated. ... The gore is effective without ever hitting the level of a feature-film bloodbath. But what will determine whether The Mist is the summer hit it aspires to be isn’t the gore: It’s the effectiveness of the psychological terror. It is moderately successful in the first episode, at least.
  9. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Daniel Fienberg
    Jun 21, 2017
    40
    Bernstein (Fargo, Better Call Saul) is a good enough director that The Mist pilot gets a couple light scares, but it lacks the brutal simplicity this brand requires. After an hour, they've killed a few people nobody will possibly care about and one animal people probably will care about. But the characters are still scattered through the town and my desire to follow any of them to see how long it takes to bring them together in a contained environment as they ponder the unknowable outside is next to nil.
  10. RogerEbert.com
    Reviewed by: Brian Tallerico
    Jun 21, 2017
    40
    It’s one of those programs that shows way too much and doesn’t allow for tension to build. We see the impact of the mist way too quickly for a show that now has to maintain suspense over the course of a season. And the special effects are too thin to be actually terrifying.
  11. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    Jun 16, 2017
    40
    [The Mist] resurrects many of the small­town tropes that were in “Under the Dome” but with a cast of largely unknowns and B­-movie effects, writing and performances.

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User Score
3.5

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 125 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 125
  2. Mixed: 24 out of 125
  3. Negative: 76 out of 125
  1. Velocisexual
    Jun 23, 2017
    3
    Well, this was disappointing.
    When I first heard about this show being made I had no high expectations, but I was curious and hopeful that it    Well, this was disappointing.
    When I first heard about this show being made I had no high expectations, but I was curious and hopeful that it might at least give us some exciting horror elements.
    For those who have not heard of The Mist before. The show is based on the 2007 movie of the same name, which was in turn based on a very popular short story by Stephen King. In the story a small town gets overrun by a mysterious mist that has all kinds of alien monsters in it. A group of characters end up in a store and try to survive both the monsters outside and the "monsters" within.
    So now we have Spike TV trying their hand at an adaption of this story.

    Let's start with the positives, the cast and their acting is solid for the most part, in particular the 3 members of the central family did at least manage to get me invested a little bit in the show. Also some of the visual effects and the cinematography are decent and that's about it really.

    There is so much wrong with this show. The writing is terrible, there are many cringeworthy lines of dialogue in just the pilot episode alone. Characters also rarely react appropriately to the situations unfolding before them. The characters in general are flatter than a Dutch pancake, walking stereotypes of Smalltown USA. I know some people have made the comparison to Under The Dome because that's also based on a Stephen King property, but it is in my opinion way worse than that show.
    The pacing and editing are consistently off, scenes end before you feel they should end. There are weird timeskips on multiple occassions in very awkward attempts to create some mystery. And while some of the visual effects were fine, there's not that many of 'm to start with.

    Which brings me to my biggest gripe with this show: Watching the pilot, it feels like they bought the rights to The Mist to use it as a framework or selling point to actually tell a completely different story about racism/sexism/homophobia/etc in the USA. Which is in itself not necessarily a bad story to tell, but when you try to sell this show as a horror show based on a story by Stephen King it's just false advertising and this show deserves to get roasted for it.

    To summarize, The Mist is NOT a show about a mist, or about the monsters in the mist, it's not a horror show, or an action show. It's a social drama that pretends to be about all the aforementioned things to get people to watch it. And it's not even a good social drama at that, I'd suggest Netflix if that's what you're looking for.    … Full Review »
  2. FadeBlack
    Aug 16, 2017
    1
    Just seen the first episode of The Mist, and it is more than enough to conclude this is nothing but dreadful, dreadful garbage. A SJW fart inJust seen the first episode of The Mist, and it is more than enough to conclude this is nothing but dreadful, dreadful garbage. A SJW fart in a bag that has nothing whatsoever to do with Stephen King's work. Stay far, far away from this crap.… Full Review »
  3. saber_rider
    Jun 24, 2017
    3
    This tv show is absolute tone-death.Non of the scenes has the proper build up or care put into it, it would need in order to make a lastingThis tv show is absolute tone-death.Non of the scenes has the proper build up or care put into it, it would need in order to make a lasting impression on the viewer.Its as if the producer has said to himself:"This script is **** but we have to film it anyways,so lets get over with it.The faster we are done with shooting this, the faster we all can go home again!"Its really like they where not even trying to make any of the scenes interesting or memorable for the viewer.Almost as if they tried on purpose to shoot every scene in the least interesting way possible with the most boring and forced dialog thinkable,like in some elaborated trolling scheme.

    Everything in this TV show feels forced,out of place(in a bad way!),stiff,awkward and unintentionally cringeworty.From the clichéic and stereotype dialogs coming out of the mostly unlikable , uninteresting and unimaginary characters over really bad special effects to the lack of any real monsters in the mist.In the movie we get a diverse cast of exotic alien creatures in all shapes,forms and sizes,like giant tentacle monsters with claws and sharp teeth or acid-web spraying spiders!In this tv show we get an army of cockroaches and moth attacking people and reindeer's crashing into driving cars...what a downgrade!

    I have watched the first 3 episodes so far.The first is by far the worst the other 2 are a bit better but not by much.Overall those first 3 episodes are laughably bad,concentrating only on the depressing and annoying melodrama between the characters instead of any cool monster action at all.This tv show is not really about the mist or monsters coming out of the mist.For this danish producer the mist is only a tool for creating his shockingly bad melodramatic teenager soap opera about a emo gay teen wearing black eyeliner probably raping(we don't know yet but the show hints at least in this direction) his best friend while she is drunk and then blaming it on the famous footballplayer she is in love with!Why do gay guys in those kind of shows always get potrait as borderline and overly girlish? Beside of that the only thing which attacks anyone in this tv show,beside of the producer attacking the taste of the viewers, are people attacking other people in very bad choreographed fight scenes and animals attacking people,as i said before no real monsters in this mess of a show.And it has definitely nothing to do with the movie or stephen kings novel in the slightest.

    Its like police officers say to people on a crime scene:"There is nothing to see here people, just move on!" Except with the difference that in this case its actually true.    … Full Review »
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