Netflix Review: 1922 Is a Steinbeckian Tell-Tale Heart for Stephen King Fans

1922 is the story of what evil men might do when pressured by both family and larger economic forces to change.

Thomas Janes plays Wilfred James, a Nebraska farmer who oddly talks more like he's never ventured north of the Mason-Dixon line and dresses as if the local co-op had a clearance sale on denim overalls. The land he tills actually belongs to his wife, Arlette (Molly Parker), who inherited it from family and is desperate to sell it to a sharecropper. She wants to use the money from a sell-off to move to Omaha and open up a dress ...