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In the end, Castle Rock unlocks its potential and throws away the key
“How much doubt are you folks comfortable with?”
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With the end in sight, Castle Rock finally lets the cat out of the bag
The biggest revelation of “Henry Deaver,” the penultimate episode of Castle Rock’s uneven first season, isn’t the…
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An action-packed Castle Rock feels a little disjointed
There was always a danger, lurking since the premiere, that Castle Rock would get bogged down in recreating an auteur’s…
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Quiet and richly creepy, “The Queen” is Castle Rock at its best
“The Queen” is the most affecting, effective episode of Castle Rock’s first season so far, and a potent antidote to the…
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Castle Rock tries to sidestep some missing pieces
“What’s with all the missing pieces? Grandma?”
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In Castle Rock, the past won't stay buried
“It was that damned dog,” Ruth Deaver laments to her son in the aftermath of her leap from the bridge—from the Pangborn…
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Castle Rock throws a flash-bang grenade into its eerie quiet
“There’s a lot of history in this town, and not all of it good,” Molly Strand straight-talks her out-of-town buyers…
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Castle Rock is too busy remembering other stories to tell its own
“Remember the dog? The strangler? Sure you do.” Early in Castle Rock’s second episode, Dale Lacy’s voice-over sets the…
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Castle Rock's premiere digs into Stephen King's mythology, but shallowly
Castle Rock opens in flashback, showing Alan Pangborn (the quietly capable, deceptively adept sheriff of Stephen King’s …
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Castle Rock’s got plenty of Stephen King references, little of his storytelling chops
It’s bizarre but totally appropriate in our postmodern, reference-happy age to see a phenomenon like Stranger Things ech…