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“#Great Atmosphere, Lackluster Story \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\"Chapelwaite<\/a><\/p>\n

While the films from the\u00a0Stephen King<\/strong> adaptation renaissance we\u2019re currently in have been (mostly) good, the same can\u2019t be said for the TV shows.\u00a0Castle Rock<\/em>, inspired by King\u2019s work in general<\/a>, turned out to be a disapp<\/a>ointment. The recent streaming takes on\u00a0The Stand<\/em> and\u00a0Lisey\u2019s Story<\/em> were both miscalculations. Can\u00a0Chapelwaite<\/em><\/strong>, the latest show that gets to bill itself as being based on something King wrote, succeed where its recent predecessors have failed? Not quite, but that doesn\u2019t mean you shouldn\u2019t pay\u00a0Chapelwaite<\/em> a visit.<\/p>\n

While\u00a0The Stand<\/em> and\u00a0Lisey\u2019s Story<\/em> were more direct adaptations of King\u2019s work (King himself even wrote the scripts for\u00a0Lisey\u2019s Story<\/em>),\u00a0Chapelwaite<\/em> is more of an \u201cinspired by\u201d situation. The 10-episode series<\/a>, which premieres\u00a0on Epix August 22, 2021<\/strong>, counts King\u2019s short story\u00a0\u201cJerusalem\u2019s Lot\u201d as its source material, but anyone who has actually read the story \u2013 like me! \u2013 can tell you this is a\u00a0very<\/em> loose take on that tale. But that\u2019s not a decision worth penalizing\u00a0Chapelwaite<\/em> for \u2013 we can only accept what we\u2019ve been given, and what we\u2019ve been given is a story that\u2019s been needlessly stretched out. King\u2019s story, a Lovecraft by way of Poe pastiche presented as a series of letters, was a secluded affair. It was set primarily in a big spooky house and primarily focused on two characters.
\nChapelwaite<\/em> has expanded things considerably, and not exactly for the better. One gets the sense that creators and writers\u00a0Jason Filardi<\/strong> and Peter Filardi<\/strong> wanted to turn this into something of an ensemble piece, delving into new supporting characters. But these characters are never very interesting, or well-drawn. They feel like contrivances rather than regular human beings, and whenever the story cuts away to them,\u00a0Chapelwaite<\/em> sags.<\/p>\n

At the center of it all is\u00a0Charles Boone (Adrien Brody)<\/strong> a moody sea captain who has spent the last few years living on his ship with his wife and his children (Jennifer Ens,<\/strong> Sirena Gulamgaus<\/strong>, and Ian Ho<\/strong>), all of whom have spent their entire lives so far at sea. When his wife dies, Boone and his family descend into melancholy, and there\u2019s a great moment early on where the Boone children sob uncontrollably as their mother\u2019s body is buried at sea \u2013 it\u2019s brutal, emotional stuff, and it suggests a much better show.<\/p>\n

The Boones soon have a change of scenery: they move from the ship to the small village of\u00a0Preacher\u2019s Corners, Maine, where resides\u00a0Chapelwaite, the Boone family\u2019s ancestral home. It was once the residence of Charles\u2019 now-dead cousin Stephen, and while Charles wasn\u2019t overly familiar with the man, he quickly learns that the folks in Preacher\u2019s Corners are\u00a0not<\/em> fans \u2013 of Charles or the Boones in general. As far as Charles\u2019 new neighbors are concerned, the Boones are all evil and\/or crazy. It doesn\u2019t help that Charles\u2019 kids are of mixed race (their mother was Polynesian, from the Marquesas Islands of the South Pacific), something that cranks up the xenophobia and racism in town.<\/p>\n

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All the dirty looks and antagonism from the villagers are bad enough, but to make matters worse, the Boone family\u2019s new house is a rather spooky place. Charles insists he hears rats scratching away inside the walls, even though an exterminator swears up and down that there are no rats. A dark incident from Charles\u2019 childhood plagues him, and he lives in fear of going mad \u2013 a fear that\u2019s been exacerbated by the move. Soon, Charles is having weird visions of worms. Lots and lots of worms. Seriously, folks \u2013 get ready to see\u00a0lots<\/em> of shots of worms. Brody even rips a comically long worm out of his nose at one point. Honestly, they could\u2019ve gotten away with calling this\u00a0Stephen King\u2019s Wormtown<\/em>.
\nWhile seemingly every single person in Preacher\u2019s Corners immedia<\/a>tely hates the Boones, they do find acceptance in\u00a0Rebecca Morgan (Emily Hampshire<\/strong>), who takes a job as the family\u2019s governess. But Rebecca has ulterior motives \u2013 she\u2019s a writer and plans to write something about Chapelwaite for the\u00a0Atlantic<\/em>. But the more time she spends with the family, the more she grows to like them and reconsider her mercenary approach.<\/p>\n

Brody is fine as the morose lead, but Hampshire \u2013 who was so wonderful on\u00a0Schitt\u2019s Creek<\/em> \u2013 is miscast here. Her Rebecca feels far too modern, and nearly everything she does, and every line she delivers, always feels like it\u2019s from the mind of a modern-day screenwriter, not an actual person living in the world of the show.<\/p>\n

There are good ideas buried in all of this, and the show has a gorgeous, gothic vibe that will appeal to fans of the genre. While often considerably underlit (even for a show set in a dark house in the 1800s), the haunted, haunting atmosphere is the real star of the show. Real dread starts to set in \u2013 at least at first. But\u00a0Chapelwaite<\/em> is a deliberately paced show, which is a nice way of saying it\u2019s slow as molasses. There\u2019s nothing wrong with slow-paced narratives, but\u00a0Chapelwaite<\/em> truly begins to drag after its first few episodes, and it\u2019s clear that had the show cut down its episode numbers to something shorter (let\u2019s say six instead of ten), things would turn out for the better.<\/p>\n

Folks familiar with King\u2019s work will no doubt realize that the source material\u2019s title \u2013 \u201cJerusalem\u2019s Lot\u201d \u2013 is connected to King\u2019s vampire novel\u00a0Salem\u2019s Lot<\/em>. Sure enough, the story was a prequel to the novel, which means\u00a0Chapelwaite<\/em> is a\u00a0Salem\u2019s Lot<\/em> prequel, too. With that in mind, you know it\u2019s only a matter of time before the series busts out the bloodsuckers. But gosh, does it have to take so damn long to get there?<\/p>\n

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