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Let's go visit Shawshank at [Castle Rock]
SniperGuy
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Castle Rock is a new show on Hulu
Hulu describes it as:
The first three episodes are available now and they're dropping one more episode a week after this. New episodes on Wednesdays.
Castle Rock features actors like:
Terry O'Quinn
Bill Skarsgard
Sissy Spacek
Andre Holland
Melanie Lynskey
Scott Glenn
and more!
So far I have only watched the first episode but it seemed to just ooze Stephen King, so I'm a fan already. Let's discuss and speculate on the terrible things happening in this town!
Hulu describes it as:
A psychological-horror series set in the Stephen King multiverse, Castle Rock combines the mythological scale and intimate character storytelling of King’s best-loved works, weaving an epic saga of darkness and light, played out on a few square miles of Maine woodland. The fictional Maine town of Castle Rock has figured prominently in King’s literary career: Cujo, The Dark Half, IT and Needful Things, as well as novella The Body and numerous short stories such as Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption are either set there or contain references to Castle Rock. Castle Rock is an original suspense/thriller — a first-of-its-kind reimagining that explores the themes and worlds uniting the entire King canon, while brushing up against some of his most iconic and beloved stories.
The first three episodes are available now and they're dropping one more episode a week after this. New episodes on Wednesdays.
Castle Rock features actors like:
Terry O'Quinn
Bill Skarsgard
Sissy Spacek
Andre Holland
Melanie Lynskey
Scott Glenn
and more!
So far I have only watched the first episode but it seemed to just ooze Stephen King, so I'm a fan already. Let's discuss and speculate on the terrible things happening in this town!
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Watching episode 3 now and really enjoying it. Tons of little King references and the story pretty tantalizing.
Also really good performances from all the leads.
On ep 3 right now.
Having just watched through The Leftovers I was delighted when an unkempt Scott Glenn strolled into view in an ugly shirt.
I guess I am watching this now
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Melanie Lynskey is great, but so far every actor has kind of carried weight. Skarsgard is suitable fucking creepy as hell while also carrying an air of childish innocence, which is a difficult rope to balance.
The evolution of Henry's dad that we're seeing, and the justifications for Molly pulling out the breathing tube (jesus christ that was hard to watch)
All the callbacks being used are great for those who know, and for those who don't they still are sufficiently explanatory.
Pangborn!
Allowing stories to breathe. That was always one of the things King books did that either the shows didn't do right or the movies didn't do at all. The dialogue is compact and effective and conveys a sense of history when two characters interact without exposition dumps.
The characters so far are really well-rounded and well-written.
God damn I hope this doesn't pull a JJ and have all intrigue and setup with zero payoff.
She's an actress I always thought was underrated. I've seen her in a quite a few things and she's always knocking it out of the park.
Fixed. I've loved her since Heavenly Creatures and always thought it was a crime that only Kate Winslet became a big star afterward.
If this is a glimpse into her acting ability then consider me a fan. She's great and sells Molly as a fully fleshed out person.
You've probably seen her in a bunch of stuff, but she disappears into her roles so much that you don't always take notice. Check out her IMDb.
Anyone know when new episodes are aired?
New episodes of Castle Rock should be going up on Hulu on Wednesday, so we should get ep 4 tomorrow.
I gotta find that somewhere and see it again now.
Anyway she’s very good.
Yeah, its actually pretty irritating that Hulu is following the TV model with regards to their originally produced content. The wife and I generally watch TV in spurts and it sucks running through half a show and then trying to come back to it 2 months later to finish it out. A lot of time it just doesn't happen and makes me feel like its less value. We've watched half of the second season of the Handmaid's Tale for example and I just don't see jumping back into it.
I think
The fistbump may have done it, especially since they focused a lot on the hand afterwards.
One thought that did keep popping into my head though was that maybe he's the kid from Storm of the Century. No birthmark on his nose, though.
Anyway, I'd guess he's not really any previously establish King character.
It gets how Stephen King works and why people like him better than the vast majority of the adaptations. Very few King films or TV shows put in the time to build up the characters and get to know them and how they live in the setting before amping up the horror, which is the key ingredient to why King works on the page.
One of my favorite things about King's stories is that they're good (at least in theory) on their own and when you're familiar with his meta-fiction those stories get a new dimension that you didn't need but add more life.
He tells Pangborn he's not the Devil because that's the Crimson King
like, the town slid into economic despair and drug/alcohol abuse anyway
shawshank is corrupt and awful even with him put away
when he 'made people go crazy' they almost certainly had that stuff bubbling away below the surface anyway
I would be pleasantly surprised if the fist bump and birthday party were red herrings