12 Critically Reviled Sci-Fi TV Shows (That Weren't Actually That Bad)

Let’s be realistic—were we ever going to say that a horror thriller-cum-medical procedural originally conceived by Dogme mad artist/ Antichrist director Lars Von Trier and adapted by The Shining scribe/ crown prince of horror fiction Stephen King was anything other than underrated?

With the provocative Eurotrash auteur writing the original series and King on hand to offer creative guidance for the American remake (set in Maine, naturally), this 2004 series set in a hospital plagued by ghosts, psychics, and all manner of supernatural antics should have been a guaranteed hit. Instead, after hiring helmer Craig R. Baxley (who also shot the earlier underrated Stephen King miniseries Rose Red), the show was panned by critics as too slow, tonally haphazard, and disjointed.

One critic even compared its strange sensibility to Twin Peaks, and let us be the first to say that in this instance they were right—but who wouldn’t want to see Lars Von Trier and Stephen King do ER meets Twin Peaks?