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I am liking this show. The book was the only book by Stephen King I have ever read. I am a sucker for time travel stories. They had to add the sidekick guy so that they'd be someone for the protagonist to talk to rather than use an overbearing narrator, As a bonus he can complicate or screw up things from time to time. If they were clever they would have given him the name of Kenneth Porter, the guy who married Marina in 1965. Right now they are making it seem that Oswald was in a conspiracy but I think the book ran that way too. De Mohrenschildt was not there when the famous picture was taken but it was taken only a few days before the attempted Walker assassination happened. DeM only saw Oswald one time after that and that was the first he knew that Oswald had a rifle. He joked with Oswald that he was the assassin. Then he moved to Haiti. We'll have to see how that is portrayed in the movie.

>>>No state lotteries in 1960! :)<<< the first state lottery, the New Hampshire Sweepstakes, didn't start until 1964 and was the only state lottery for a long time. But there was the Irish Sweepstakes which started in 1930 and was a big deal in the USA (although technically illegal). Lucy Ricardo even bet on it. Bilko may have had an episode where they were listening to the radio to get Irish Sweepstakes racing results. The ultimate result was based on a horse race with the horses each representing a randomly selected number on your ticket. I'm not a Stephen King fan. He said this book would hopefully get people to read him who normally would not. I certainly was one of those. Except for Shawsank (which I don't particularly like because of the prison corruption angle and that one of the star convicts was a black guy in a state that had about two black guys in it at the time) and Carrie (which I thought was kind of stupid). I also don't really like Franco since Freaks and Geeks days. I thought this was ok. a lot of shows today have overly complicated extended plots that are hard to follow. There is some of this here but much less than in the book. (Complicated plots are better in books because you read at your own pace and can flip back to previous pages). The flaws in the plot elaborated here by others I think were accounted for as the rules of time travel in the book. They will probably eventually be elaborated on in the mini series. I do think the first episode was long. And it looks like the Kentucky plotline is going to be made bigger than in the book, consuming at least one or more whole episodes at least. And it looks like he gets a sidekick there.