Romans
- Episode aired Sep 12, 2018
- TV-MA
- 51m
IMDb RATING
7.0/10
2.2K
YOUR RATING
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaHenry Deaver (André Holland) mentions Wilma Jerzyck when explaining that his client (Ron) dug his septic tank on her property. Jerzyck is a character in another Stephen King novel Needful Things which is also set in Castle Rock.
- GoofsWhen setting up a chessboard the light colored squares are always in the lower right hand corner.
- Quotes
Henry Deaver: [Some folks get away, spend the rest of their lives trying to forget this place. Maybe they do forget, for a while. Some never leave, no matter how hard they try. Most of us are trapped here for a reason. Everyone in this town has some sin or regret, some cage of his own making. And a story, a sad one, about how we got this way. "It wasn't me, it was this place." That's what we say. But that's a story, too. It doesn't change a thing. Maybe something turned you into a monster. Or maybe you were one all along. Doesn't matter. You're here now. This is who you are. This is where you live. This is where you're from]
- Crazy creditsThe episode has mid-credits scene.
- ConnectionsReferences National Treasure (2004)
Featured review
Season One
The first season of Castle Rock features 10 episodes. The first two are excellent and the last two are excellent. Everything in the middle? Confusingly plotted (at best) or outright boring (at worst).
Without getting into any major spoilers, the show begins when lawyer Henry Deaver (Andre Holland) is called back to his old home town of Castle Rock when a young man, dubbed The Kid (Bill Skarsgard), is found trapped in a sub-basement of Shawshank Prison. Now back in town, Henry meets with people he hasn't seen in quite tom time, including mother Ruth (Sissy Spacek)--now "shacked up" with former sheriff Alan Pangborn (Scott Glenn)--, childhood friend Molly (Melanie Lynskey), and Jackie Torrance (Jane Levy), whose last name Stephen King fans will well recognize. Henry has a vague memory of something momentous that happened in his childhood, and through the course of the series he slowly puts all the pieces together.
Here's the crux of how much you will likely enjoy Castle Rock: how negatively will you react when the show abruptly departs from the scenario set up in episodes one and two? Because in eps 3-8, it is almost a completely different show. Instead of the mystery of the town and Henry's "Kid", it seems to bounce around to a number of topics only loosely connected to each other. By about the 3/4 mark, I was honestly starting to tire of the show altogether.
Fortunately, episode nine hits and changes the game entirely (if albeit a bit too late to save this overall season). THAT was the type of episode (as well as the finale) that I wanted this show to be all along, filled with mystery, suspense, and hinting at the paranormal (much like the King books themselves).
So, with the ending of this first season, I am in a bit of a weird place with Castle Rock. Though I can't give this effort any more than three stars (4/10 isn't a great successful episode ratio), I am tremendously excited for the path it seems to have set itself upon. This whole scenario has very much a "Fringe"-esque vibe to me (another Bad Robot production) in that it struggles to find its storytelling footing and then absolutely takes off when it does.
The series has already been renewed for a second go-round on Hulu (and ends here accordingly, with many loose ends), and I will anxiously await to see if the strong finish to S1 rolls over into further episodes.
Without getting into any major spoilers, the show begins when lawyer Henry Deaver (Andre Holland) is called back to his old home town of Castle Rock when a young man, dubbed The Kid (Bill Skarsgard), is found trapped in a sub-basement of Shawshank Prison. Now back in town, Henry meets with people he hasn't seen in quite tom time, including mother Ruth (Sissy Spacek)--now "shacked up" with former sheriff Alan Pangborn (Scott Glenn)--, childhood friend Molly (Melanie Lynskey), and Jackie Torrance (Jane Levy), whose last name Stephen King fans will well recognize. Henry has a vague memory of something momentous that happened in his childhood, and through the course of the series he slowly puts all the pieces together.
Here's the crux of how much you will likely enjoy Castle Rock: how negatively will you react when the show abruptly departs from the scenario set up in episodes one and two? Because in eps 3-8, it is almost a completely different show. Instead of the mystery of the town and Henry's "Kid", it seems to bounce around to a number of topics only loosely connected to each other. By about the 3/4 mark, I was honestly starting to tire of the show altogether.
Fortunately, episode nine hits and changes the game entirely (if albeit a bit too late to save this overall season). THAT was the type of episode (as well as the finale) that I wanted this show to be all along, filled with mystery, suspense, and hinting at the paranormal (much like the King books themselves).
So, with the ending of this first season, I am in a bit of a weird place with Castle Rock. Though I can't give this effort any more than three stars (4/10 isn't a great successful episode ratio), I am tremendously excited for the path it seems to have set itself upon. This whole scenario has very much a "Fringe"-esque vibe to me (another Bad Robot production) in that it struggles to find its storytelling footing and then absolutely takes off when it does.
The series has already been renewed for a second go-round on Hulu (and ends here accordingly, with many loose ends), and I will anxiously await to see if the strong finish to S1 rolls over into further episodes.
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