## HBO's 10-Part Stephen King Masterpiece Deserves Kudos For Avoiding A Common Adaptation Mistake Not only is one of HBO’s best Stephen King adaptations a classic psychological thriller, but the 2020 series deserves credit for avoiding a major mistake made by many earlier small-screen takes on the writer’s work. If Mike Flanagan’s Netflix horror shows proved anything, it is that a great adaptation does not always necessarily need to be a faithful one. In 2018, Flanagan turned Shirley Jackson’s intimate character study The Haunting of Hill House into a sprawling, generations-spanning epic…