Oh I just watched the stinger at the end. So much for that hope
Oh I just watched the stinger at the end. So much for that hope
Also that dead-of-winter forest fire… it sure did pay off
I have to disagree with the ending as “inevitable”. It’s a striking image, and it echoes the beginning of the show, but it’s not inevitable. For it to be inevitable you would have to look at black Henry’s story and say “I understand how he got here, and knowing him the way we do, I can’t see him doing differently.”
Are you referring to Counterpart?
The Terror getting completely shut out was the most ridiculous thing tbqh
Am I crazy or does Punisher’s payback involve seducing one of the villain’s bros?
Am I crazy or does Punisher’s payback involve seducing one of the villain’s bros?
I think there’s enough to suggest that Ruth is actually planehopping
Yet one more similarity between Castle Rock and the greatest game of all time, Bioshock Infinite
Also the family that the Kid drove batty had an infant / a kid.
I like all of it, I just wish Castle Rock was tight enough to earn that kind of close reading. At this point you can’t assume any omission is deliberate, because the show’s kind of sloppy.
Early on there, Creepypasta really did fill a niche and served as a kind of urban legend repository for... I don’t know, a digital urban space?? I mean it wasn’t precisely folklore in the same way, but a lot of it functioned as such.
I’ll ring the “watch The Terror” bell til the day I die
The prison industrial complex, naturally
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’m so sick of the Kid. We’ve 2 hours left in this 10 hour series and he’s still a complete cipher and still speaking in portents, and the gender-flipped J Horror spooky kid vibe wore off around episode 3. The question of whether or not he’s actually evil is also dramatically inert, because he’s not a character, so…
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
This is basically just like how the first time I was ever aware of 21pilots it was in a news item about how they’d already sold a billion records and were selling out stadiums. I’ve never read a single culture blog post about Yellowstone. It was just out there.
Hell the bar was set so low by Durst and company that they were probably all “behold, a genius” when KR even knew who Bob Seeger was.
It’s already been skipped over in favor of Kill Rock Stars indie rock revivalism (Iceage, Julien Baker etc) and pop punk