*Spoilers Ahead* Not entirely true to the original Stephen King 1980 book plot or the 2007 film, the new 2017 tv show The Mist offers a new take on the story, with new storylines and sub plots, while keeping some of the original elements of the previous versions of the story. The Common Premise The story is set in a small American town, Bridgeville, Maine (originally Bridgton, Maine), which is suddenly covered in a strange mist. If you've read a few Stephen King stories, nothing good ever happens in Maine! In the book and film versions, the mist appears after a strange thunderstorm, during which the power is lost, so most residents go to pick up supplies from town in the morning. In the tv show, we see the mist approaching the town slowly over a period of a day or so, during which everyone in town goes about their lives as usual and the electricity is actually only lost a couple of days after the mist arrives. In all cases, the residents of the town find themselves in various loc...
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