At the time I only ended up buying White Pony and the Primus album that was even worse than their usual. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that critical reappraisal of nu metal has largely converged on Deftones in general and White Pony specifically

There was definitely some program on MTV2 that I distinctly remember letting Kid Rock draw an explicit line between himself and Bob Seeger / the Allman Brother’s and all that. It was at the end of the program and they all but said he was a torch bearer, the future of music. 

Great now you’ve given me flashbacks to that album. And to Primus in general. I’m gonna be sick

There was a p good retrospective on a sort of old school AVC / poptimist podcast called Celebration Rock (ugh) that made a pretty good case for Korn as a sort of avant garde band. Even though they were claiming all sorts of ludicrous influences (like jazz) by the time they were soundtracking flop FPS games, by their…

A good episode mainly because it’s all put on the best actor in the cast. Could have done without the “you can’t stop me because I am you” bit, though. R me of Rutger Hauer’s “YOU are the real vampire” clunker in the Rob Lowe Salem’s Lot.

The seamless transition between scrolling articles strikes again, wrong post. 

The live cut of “The Sound” off of Swans Are Dead was the pinnacle of post-metal, whatever that was, even if the studio version dropped in ‘06. The big crescendo is played so loud and so hard you can hear a speaker blow out in the recording itself. 

The Wicker Man and Kill List come to mind if cults count.

The Kid from the prison or the kid he brings up from Boston? Come to think of it, Henry Deaver being his own father would single-handedly redeem this show.

FWIW, it sounds like they’re doing what Stranger Things was planned to do before it became a massive hit and make Castle Rock an anthology show. If this season falls flat they start from scratch next year. 

Anyway, speculation corner - the Kid’s the one who’s bleeding, because the gunshot that drew Pangborn to the Deaver house in 1991 was Ruth drawing on the Kid in the present. We’ve got time travel now so why not.

It’s painful to watch this show so soon after having watched The Terror and more recently, Outcast season 2. Both those shows managed horror and suspense expertly by having stakes clearly defined threats that were deepened through their run. Outcast also happened to be about small town sins and the disintegration of…

I’m not sure (this show loves its vagary) but the Kid seems to have his ambient bad shit influence which causes directionless general mayhem, and a greater malign power through touch. Warden Lacy might have kept the Kid’s greater power in check but keeping him physically isolated.

I was going to say something about how Luke Treadaway really has the “spiritually diseased characters” market cornered, what with Mr. Mercedes and Penny Dreadful and Fortitude, etc. but I remembered him as *Harry* Treadaway, and that’s when I found out that the one guy in my memory was actually a set of identical twins

So did Pastor Deaver fall and die and then Henry disappeared for 11 days? Or Henry disappeared and the Pastor died some time between the disappearance and reappearance?

The novels were / are written by Brian Evenson, a well-regarded writer of short horror fiction, under a pen name. When it comes to post-King horror I think he’s to Kelly Link what Dean Koontz was to King himself, but he has his partisans. Never read any of his Halo books, though. 

Hi guys I was told this was the thread for people concerned about ethics in TV journalism??

Anyway I appreciated the jolt, and Castle Rock’s a little better about Serialized Streaming Problems than some other shows, but four hours is a lot of wind up time for getting the Kid out of jail. The 2 1/2 hour delay before Henry and the Kid actually meet is, frankly, inexcusable. It’s pretty to look at but come on.

It’s not completely unforeseeable. It was only after he dropped a dime on the kid’s behalf that Dennis seemed to realize how awful his life at Shawshank was, how much he wanted out of it, and how bad things would be in any event (he’s out of a job in a dead county, or stuck in a soul-sucking position).

Dennis was doomed the moment he touched Nick / the kid.