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Yeah. There are many articles that I could put on Medium if I didn't give a fuck. This is one of them.
I bought Castle Rock season 1. I think I even liked it. I liked it enough to watch it a second time. I'm watching it the second time. And oh do I wish that the memba berries on South Park still had cultural significance but fucking Trump made everything about him so all Trump adjacent items like the Memba berries (memba Star Wars? That was great) are practically erased.
But this definitely explains why Disney gave Abrams Star Wars but also why they should have NEVER let him direct anything after the first Nostalgia driven movie. Abrams banks so heavily on nostalgia that there's really nothing left for him.
And Castle Rock is nothing but "hey remember this Stephen King story?" They reference the shit out of Stephen King stories. The weird guy is in Shawshank Prison. There was once a dog attack. So what's happening now? A lot of shit about a lawyer being blamed for his father dying but his mother is Sissy Spacek (CARRIE!!!! Isn't that so fucking amazing) and she's dating the Sheriff from Needful Things - the book where Castle Rock is utterly destroyed by the devil shop owner (if only Rick Sanchez had been in town).
But ignore the Stephen King references - at least the ones that have nothing to do with the actual story - and it's a fucking JJ Abrams alternate universe plot. I remember kind of liking these fucking things when he was making Fringe, but even then the alternate universe was actually fleshed out.
In this one the lawyer and the weird guy (Skarsgaard) are both Henry Deaver but from alternate universes. And for the last episode we get the twist that Skarsgaard was imprisoned for decades in Shawshank but lawyer as a child was imprisoned in the house in an alternate universe - the same one that Skaarsgard came from. So they were both prisoners in the alternate universes and the whole show crawls up its own ass.
Also there's a scene where a woman says that there was a serial killer (Dead Zone) and a killer dog (Cujo) back in the day, but that happened before she was born. NOw the town is boring. For just a second I thought that the show reached self-awareness and admitted to the fact that it is boring as shit and running on references to much better stories. Then she mentions the uncle that tried to kill his family and she took his name to annoy her parents. So she's JACKIE TORRENCE!!!! Get it. Isn't that awesome!!!
You know if you watch Rise of the Skywalker in a big ass movie theater with big ass speakers you don't necessarily think about how fucking stupid the plot is. You think of an alternate movie where Finn is the lead and Rose is actually doing things. You can also laugh about the Palpatine Sex Dungeon. Seriously that's a Palpatine Sex Dungeon at the end.
Sadly, there's not even a sex dungeon in Castle Rock.
I bought Castle Rock season 1. I think I even liked it. I liked it enough to watch it a second time. I'm watching it the second time. And oh do I wish that the memba berries on South Park still had cultural significance but fucking Trump made everything about him so all Trump adjacent items like the Memba berries (memba Star Wars? That was great) are practically erased.
But this definitely explains why Disney gave Abrams Star Wars but also why they should have NEVER let him direct anything after the first Nostalgia driven movie. Abrams banks so heavily on nostalgia that there's really nothing left for him.
And Castle Rock is nothing but "hey remember this Stephen King story?" They reference the shit out of Stephen King stories. The weird guy is in Shawshank Prison. There was once a dog attack. So what's happening now? A lot of shit about a lawyer being blamed for his father dying but his mother is Sissy Spacek (CARRIE!!!! Isn't that so fucking amazing) and she's dating the Sheriff from Needful Things - the book where Castle Rock is utterly destroyed by the devil shop owner (if only Rick Sanchez had been in town).
But ignore the Stephen King references - at least the ones that have nothing to do with the actual story - and it's a fucking JJ Abrams alternate universe plot. I remember kind of liking these fucking things when he was making Fringe, but even then the alternate universe was actually fleshed out.
In this one the lawyer and the weird guy (Skarsgaard) are both Henry Deaver but from alternate universes. And for the last episode we get the twist that Skarsgaard was imprisoned for decades in Shawshank but lawyer as a child was imprisoned in the house in an alternate universe - the same one that Skaarsgard came from. So they were both prisoners in the alternate universes and the whole show crawls up its own ass.
Also there's a scene where a woman says that there was a serial killer (Dead Zone) and a killer dog (Cujo) back in the day, but that happened before she was born. NOw the town is boring. For just a second I thought that the show reached self-awareness and admitted to the fact that it is boring as shit and running on references to much better stories. Then she mentions the uncle that tried to kill his family and she took his name to annoy her parents. So she's JACKIE TORRENCE!!!! Get it. Isn't that awesome!!!
You know if you watch Rise of the Skywalker in a big ass movie theater with big ass speakers you don't necessarily think about how fucking stupid the plot is. You think of an alternate movie where Finn is the lead and Rose is actually doing things. You can also laugh about the Palpatine Sex Dungeon. Seriously that's a Palpatine Sex Dungeon at the end.
Sadly, there's not even a sex dungeon in Castle Rock.
