10 Horror TV Shows That Wasted Incredible Premises
6. The Mist
The Mist's premise - that of a dystopian world shrouded in the titular, unexplained and malevolently paranormal mist - is clearly worthy of further exploration. Stephen King's 1980 novella was wildly successful; so successful in fact, that it spawned a film adaptation and a follow-up TV series.
While 2007's feature-length offering was received positively for the most part by critics, the same cannot be said for the lifeless show that Spike was unfortunate enough to air in 2017. King's core premise is swiftly and soullessly ripped apart by a disastrous combination of shoddy character development, flagging storylines and a complete lack of respect for the original's concept. Despite some strong instances of CGI, The Mist is legitimately hard to watch, a dull, meandering mess that predictably fails to surpass woeful demonstrations of acting and production. This sorry state of affairs was not lost on network executives, who cancelled the dismal outing soon after the debut season aired.
It appears almost inconceivable that a show based on such an enthralling concept could lose its way quite so badly, but do so The Mist does - with surprisingly little difficulty, given the inherent quality of the show's original source material. This melancholic fact is further underlined by the fact that said source material is written by none other than the man universally regarded as the "King of Horror".