How the Ending of 'The Institute' Season One Differs from Stephen King's Novel

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Ahead of this week’s season finale of The Institute , MGM+ went ahead and renewed the series for a second season. Which is odd only in that the show has hewed pretty closely to the novel ( minus one big difference ), and Stephen King never wrote a sequel. Going off-book is one thing. Inventing one is another.

Still, the end of King’s novel leaves at least a crack in the door for more story, which MGM is clearly planning to exploit.

In the book, Luke and a few of the kids manage to break out and make it all the way to DuPray, South Carolina, where Tim is pulling night shifts as a “knocker” (not close by in Maine, like in the show). As in the series, a housekeeper nam

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