We are living in the golden era of Stephen King adaptations. Not every new movie and TV show based on his books has succeeded , but I promise you things have never been better. I know because I grew up during the nadir of King adaptations, the ’90s. My childhood was full of cheesy and/or awful King-inspired series and films. But, with all apologies to The Tommyknockers , one from that time stands out above the rest as being the absolute worst . It turned a great, suspenseful, horrifying, creative novella into a joke by delivering the worst creatures from another dimension ever put to screen. That miniseries is The Langoliers .
As the headline of this post hopefully makes clear, I am only here to bury the “time-keepers of eternity” that appeared on ABC’s two-part 1995 miniseries,