Not everyone is okay with the town, haha. He does look pretty crazy at first, but the town is really fucked up and that gets explained much sooner in the books than it does in the series but I'm gathering the show follows the same timeline as the books, it's just adapted for TV. It doesn't feel cliche from what I've seen/read. The acting is good! Matt Dillon plays the main character and he's lovely. Juliette Lewis is in it, and so are Terrance Howard and Melissa Leo. I genuinely like everyone else except the son. Oh, haha. I guess I could see that. I was like, why horses? But southern, so yeah. That guy I'm talking to recommended Mucinex? He's got bad allergies, but so does my mom and she just pops an Allegra every day. Haha, I'm sure they are. The Capitol is so rude, tbh.