This article contains spoilers for The Institute Season 1.From The Stand to Castle Rock to IT: Welcome to Derry, Stephen King adaptations are never in short supply. One of the most underrated is The Institute, an MGM+ series based on King’s 2019 novel of the same name. The Institute stars Joe Freeman as Luke Ellis, a young intellectual prodigy who wakes up one day to find himself in a mysterious, impregnable testing facility. He and other children with psychic gifts have been gathered here by some shadowy organization that wants to study their powers. The director of the Institute, Julia Sigsby (Mary-Louise Parker), is convinced that these experiments are for the greater good, but Luke and the other kids want out.

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