Unfortunately, ``Nightmares & Dreamscapes" does not quite distinguish itself, despite its admirable ambitions. Two episodes will air each week, starting tonight at 9. As you'd expect with work that sprang from the mind of King, the hourlong pieces also don't shy away from humor and self-reference. Called ``Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King," the four-week series promises eight psychologically resonant tales cloaked in horror metaphors, with a few O. TNT is the latest TV outlet to attempt a contemporary horror anthology that aims for something more than boo-in-the-night frights. We all need a ``Zone" of our own, a timely and artful expression of our collective fears. And every generation certainly deserves its very own hair products, even when they're named ``Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific." I wish post-Boomers could lay similar claim to a creepy anthology series like ``The Twilight Zone," the 1959-64 classic that still stands as intelligently disturbing TV. We all know every generation has a right to its own rock ' n' roll.
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