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11/22/63 is no longer available on Hulu, even though it was a Hulu original series, and now it is more difficult to watch.
11/22/63 Is One of Stephen King’s Most Underrated TV Shows
11/22/63 is a Stephen King novel that asks one serious question. If a person could go back in time and prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy, would they do it? If they did, what would it change about the future? The time travel here is a little complicated. When a person goes back in time, they arrive at the same spot every time. When they return, no time has passed, but they have aged for as long as they were in the past.
Initially, a diner owner named Al Temleton was trying to go back in time to stop the assassination, but he is now dying. He asks his friend, a schoolteacher named Jake Epping, to take his place and find a way to stop the assassination, hoping to make the present day more inclusive and better than it turned out to be. Of course, when time travel is at play, things are not going to go well.
The Hulu streaming series premiered in 2016, starring Chris Cooper as Al Templeton and James Franco as Jake Epping. The series kept the same basic plot, as Jake goes back in time and tries to find a way to stop Kennedy’s assassination. As with the book, he succeeds, but the results are not what he had hoped. 11/22/63 was a great success for Hulu, running for eight episodes and remaining fairly loyal to the source material. Critics praised the series, and it has an 83% Rotten Tomatoes score, while also winning a Saturn Award for Best Television Presentation.
The story was always excellent, as this is one of Stephen King’s better late-era novels. However, the series received a lot of praise for its production from showrunner Bridget Carpenter and for the acting, with most critics pointing out James Franco’s impressive performance as Jake Epping. Sadly, most people can’t see 11/22/63 anymore.
