It’s all over the place, there some good moments but a lot of just confusing ones. Kind of a train wreck really but you also can’t quite look away. Alexander Skarsgard isn’t as good as I’d hoped as Randall Flagg (although that just might be this episode. Frannie’s a non-entity (although there wasn’t that much there in the 94 adaptation either) and it takes a couple of episodes for Stu to really shine. Harold, Nick, and Tom Cullen all seem to have been given more thought. 

The first four episodes are also mostly flashbacks of the main characters with boulder framing story so it really doesn’t have any momentum until last week. Despite the flashbacks its also a lot less travelogue-y than the 94 one.

If there’s nothing else on right now I’d say go ahead a binge it just for the sheer lunacy of trying to push a deadly flu pandemic story during covid. There’ll be things to like for sure. This show’s also halfway thru so you could wait another month and binge it then.