I gotta say, this series totally rocked. I remember the watching it the first time they showed it over here about eight years ago, and it was the one program that absolutely everyone in school could agree on liking.It was way above the usual standard for a King adaptation (the Langoliers anyone? it had it's moments, but not many....) I think largely due to King writing the script himself. I think he did anyway. Although, I bought it a few weeks ago, and it did raise a big question;
SPOILER

Namely, what was the point of sending Stu, Larry, Glenn and Ralph to Vegas? Stu didn't make it that far, and Glenn was shot in jail, so it was only Larry and Ralph who were strung up on the centre of town. But it was Trashcan Man who brought the A-bomb which destroyed Vegas and, possibly but not definetely, Flagg himself.So what was the purpose of sending the four of them? Was it just to make sure that Flagg would be there when the bomb went off?
And it had been years since I saw this, during which I'd read the Dark Tower series, so it was cool to see that even in the tv series, King ties all his stuff together.What am I talking about?
Four words: "Stand and be true."

It wasn’t made clear in the film, cableface, but the main reason for sending the men to Vegas was to make sure that both Flagg and all of his followers were present when the A-bomb went off. If I remember correctly – and it’s been a few years since I last read the book – a call went out for everyone to gather to watch the execution.

Nits:
Hap’s fuel pumps were fixed amazingly quickly – Campion’s car smashed them all to the ground when he crashed, yet the following day they were back up again.

Stu’s house had a sign over the door saying “The Redmans”, yet when the military arrived, nobody asked him if anybody else lived there.

For a deaf man, Nick looked away a lot from people who were talking to him.

As Stu and the others left for the walk to Vegas, they passed a tractor with a dead man on it. The flu didn’t kill people within minutes of them succumbing, so why would someone who was feeling very sick go out on a tractor? The same could be said for several other corpses we see during the programme – they seem to have been in the middle of everyday tasks when they just keeled over and died.

Harold was already in mid-air before his bike crashed into the railing!

Before shooting himself, Harold wrote one line on his notepad, but when he stuck the note in his shirt, there were four lines of writing.

These nits notwithstanding, it was a great film and very true to the book. The few changes didn’t spoil my enjoyment, though I did wonder why they chose not to cast a fat actor to play Harold.

How exactly did Stu break his leg falling into that chasm? The fall didn't look like it could've been more than about 20 feet and he rolled down over sand the whole way. Did have osteoperosis or something?

Saw the 1994 mini-series and thought it was pretty good.

Haven't seen the Netflix one yet.