The one hundred and ninety-seventh TV show: #283 Salem's Lot
One of the wonderful things about Twin Peaks was the way it combined quite standard soap opera tropes and storylines with th eweirdness that occurs throughout the story, exploring how they intersect with a Lynchian bend (as well as the contributions of others). In Salem's Lot, it feels like Stephen King tries to hit similar beats about two decades earlier, but it doesn't succeed quite as well. While the mysterious house in a insular village is a well known trope that does work, the set up it does in its first half drags a fair bit, with the mystery not becoming tantalizing enough. There are some vampire appearances, but it doesn't have anything actually compelling about it for a long time. It's not until the final hour or so that it feels liek we start to see more, but where the series seems to start with a mystery to solve, it feels like it turns into scary scenes later without as much of a mystery in it. It becomes too close to the Dracula store, but with the added elements detracting, rather than adding to the whole.