Emily L. Stephens's posts

For the record, Die Hard is definitely a Christmas movie

In which Castle Rock asks quibbling viewers, “Aw, Christmas, what’s your plan, then?”

In which Castle Rock finally gets to the fireworks factory, sort of

“We figure if we can fix this, we can fix anything. Anyone.”

“Let me tell you a story about starting over”

“The Mother” is an improvement on Castle Rock’s recent slump. Even its previously on, recapping the events of “The…

In “The Laughing Place,” Castle Rock’s fifth episode of the second season, a long flashback shows us Annie Wilkes’…

Whenever Castle Rock takes its focus off Annie and Joy, tension slackens, mostly because this season’s other…

“You wanna go look at a dead guy?” It’s poetic justice that Ace Merrill, the villain who terrorized the children…

At the end of the season premiere, Annie Wilkes had fallen into the sinkhole under Abdi’s construction site, the…

The first minutes of Castle Rock’s second season swayed me off-balance. I expect the season built around Misery’s Ann…

It’s spring in New Jersey, and the students of Bridgeton Middle School are contending with the fallout from their St.…

I admire how seamlessly and thoroughly the set design and background decor of Stranger Things 3 integrates the grid…

“Who here wants to see some fireworks?”

“Those morons!” “Those total morons!”

“Chapter Five: The Flayed” opens with a thrill ride, there’s no denying it. As Starcourt’s “secret room” plunges (as…

This is a code red!

“You can stop this,” Tom (Michael Park), editor of The Hawkins Post, pleads with his daughter as…

“It’s probably for his muscles or something,” Max tells El as the two stand over a now-melted ice bath in the…

“What’s your emergency?”

In the first few minutes of Stranger Things’ third season, not much seems to have changed. In a familiar-looking…