One thing that had already stroke me last week is that, essentially, nothing especially strange happened in Castle Rock so far. Now we have multiple murders happening all around Henry, but before that, there was:

Re: whether the show works better in a binge setting, a friend wanted to catch up so we watched the first 6 episodes in about a day, and I wouldn’t say it’s any different from watching week to week.

I repeat here something that I wrote (a bit too late) in last week’s episode’s comment section.

The plotting in streaming series is a continual source of mystery to me. What writer thought it was a good idea to trip off on this disposable side-plot when the show hasn’t explained how *any* of the...what, four at minimum?...looming mysteries relate to one another in the least. Every angle of the story feels like a…

I consider it a sort of homage to King, how the man himself never knew what to do with modern tech in his stories, and this show features people who think it’s a great idea to get into the B&B business when Airbnb has disrupted it so thoroughly

Something about The Kid’s insistence on how he saved Henry brought me to a new theory: His kidnapping as a child coincided with some planet alignment or what have you that created a physical manifestation of his basest desires, Forbidden Planet style. It rescued him and wreaked vengeance for him, but then was still…

I thought that was the goatee.

Are you legitimately confused about this or is this just an oblique way of saying you don’t like King’s works?

Was liking things ironically ever really a thing or just a self defense mechanism to deflect criticism? I’ve read almost all of his works and in general I like most of them. I’m sort of stuck on Mr. Mercedes because it’s a crime novel which isn’t really my bag.

I don’t know how the second season will fare without the first season’s secret weapon: director David Fincher.

I find it enjoyable and captivating enough to a degree that I accepted that nothing may be resolved since that seemed quite possible. I wish not Emma Stone had a better role since I really liked Suburgatory, but besides that I think everyone is well cast. It’s the New Englandly horror version of Twin Peaks (ish) or it…

I’m hoping this means the whole thing we’re watching now will be completely resolved and we won’t have any cliffhangers.
A Stephen King Universe version of Fargo would be a more interesting idea to me.

‘We think the best version of Castle Rock would involve more Dark Tower references’

Glad to hear it. It hasn’t been world shatteringly great, but it’s been pretty good and entertaining, along with some very good performances. This just invests me more into this season.

It’s very slow, but it’s beginning to pay off majorly. The bottle/dream episode was just spectacular and possibly one of the best episodes of anything this year.

A tremendous character drama that delivers on the superheroics when required. Olivia Holt and Aubrey Joseph are tremendous separately, and have terrific chemistry when together. I love that this first season is about developing their friendship, not shoving them into a romantic relationship.

Whereas even the adults on…

Great, this show is not perfect but I would rather have more of this than the crappy job they did adapting ‘Runaways’.

And Misty was mentioned on Cloak and Dagger

Did anyone else notice that Brigid O’Reilly was mention on Luke Cage?

I’m now comfortable saying that this would be the second best season of Marvel on Netflix if it was there, after DD S1. They have thoroughly impressed me. I still love Jessica Jones more despite its flaws because Ritter is amazing, but Cloak and Dagger has done some great work.