Reviews - Castle Rock

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…

“How much doubt are you folks comfortable with?” 

The biggest revelation of “Henry Deaver,” the penultimate episode of Castle Rock’s uneven first season, isn’t the…

There was always a danger, lurking since the premiere, that Castle Rock would get bogged down in recreating an…

“The Queen” is the most affecting, effective episode of Castle Rock’s first season so far, and a potent antidote to…

“What’s with all the missing pieces? Grandma?”

“It was that damned dog,” Ruth Deaver laments to her son in the aftermath of her leap from the bridge—from the Pangbo…

“There’s a lot of history in this town, and not all of it good,” Molly Strand straight-talks her out-of-town buyers…

“Has it begun?”

“Remember the dog? The strangler? Sure you do.” Early in Castle Rock’s second episode, Dale Lacy’s voice-over sets…

Castle Rock opens in flashback, showing Alan Pangborn (the quietly capable, deceptively adept sheriff of Stephen…