My impression of that was that Harmon was butthurt about Chevy being a dick and retaliated, and then the execs in their infinite wisdom decided that Chase’s star power was more valuable than Harmon’s creative vision. If that’s the case it doesn’t really prove that he was the “bigger asshole.”
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You can argue who comes off worse in the Dan/Chevy feud that got Harmon fired for season 4. They were both assholes. The difference is, Harmon has grown, and Chase hasn’t. I imagine one of the things that pushed Harmon into therapy was that Chevy Chase was basically like his Ghost of Christmas Future. Spirit, is it…
Okay, so c’mon Hulu or Netflix. There is plenty in that book for a solid 4-5 seasons.
The BBC documentary about the rise of ‘Krautrock’ speaks on this. The genre came about as young people watched their parents go from pro-German, pro-Nazi to “we must never speak of this or them” in one political swoop, and they grappled with the trauma of it.
Why has nobody tackled Stones From the River? It “humanizes” Nazis in the “here are the 147 ways normal people became varying degrees of complicit in the Nazi regime” way. It makes you walk with Renate as she raises her son and realizes he is a monster. It makes you walk with George through the childhood traumas…
“90% of our speaking characters are white men... I guess we’d better crank that up to 99% to appease red state America...”
It is absolutely crazy to me that TV (shows, not the news) has now become something that is dictated by politics. The fact that they want to move more into “Red state programming” is fucking terrifying when you start to think about what that means. What defines red states at this point, apart from the anti-women and…
I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised if they start programming exclusively for red state America soon, like Fox News, since it takes only a small slice of the audience to have the no. 1 network these days.
My wife is probably a bigger King fan than I am, so if it wasn’t for her I probably wouldn’t have watched Castle Rock. It was fun coming up with theories as we binged the show the weekend before the finale and having her try to connect the dots based on how things work in other King works.
The finale left both of us...…
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Completely agree. That, and the incredible tension they built up as these complete badass soldiers slowly came to realize what they were up against and practically shat themselves as a result (except for Arnold).
Re: Episode 8 - When Wendell gets off the bus he’s in Jerusalem’s Lot.
My first thought about the smiley faces on the monitors was that Randall Flagg wore one on his jacket. I figured this was a reference to his presence somehow.
Good reviews by horror dilettantes, cheap appeals to 80s nostalgia (in an absurd ouroboros with Stranger Things), and shitty jump-scares crowbarred between “Ooh, spooky clown!” bullshit doesn’t strike me as impressive. And let’s not even bring money into the conversation as money is no metric for excellence. Else…
My guess so far is that Henry was sort of a first try at the whole “imprison the devil” ploy, they just got the wrong kid. And maybe Lacey (or the DeJardine guy, or whoever) was helped out by Henry’s dad, who was in reality not such a good person? I really don’t have anything terribly solid to base this hunch off of,…
I don’t believe this easter egg was mentioned in the article, if it was I’m sure somebody will let me know, in one of the episodes Henry is looking through old newspaper clippings the first one has a picture of train tracks and the headline “anonymous tip leads to body of missing boy” obviously referencing Stand by…
If it hasn’t already been mentioned, add Haven to the extended universe. And possibly The Colorado Kid himself?
Just to add to the gazebo bit, in Silver Bullet, Brady Kincaid’s remains are found lying in a gazebo by none other than Terry O’Quinn as the sheriff (I don’t recall if the body was discovered in the same way in the book Cycle Of the Werewolf), which I guess means you can add him to “Stunt Casting” as well.