If you’re looking for shows to binge, Castle Rock should be at the top of your list. From the creative mind of Stephen King and produced by J. J. Abrams is a show that combines characters from King’s books into one story.
The first season introduces us to new people but a setting that seems all too familiar. There are many mentions of Shawshank prison, a place that is well known in both the book and movie The Shawshank Redemption. Strange events have always plagued this town. Disappearances, mysterious deaths, and the arrivals of new people.
We follow the story of Henry Deaver, a man adopted by a family that were not able to have children. You’d think he would have had a charmed childhood because of being adopted by a barren family, but you’d be mistaken. His father is somewhat of a zealot searching out a voice that no one but him hears.
Henry meets a young man who has been trapped in a cage for many years in a abandoned part of the Shawshank prison. Little is known about him but the warden that held him in the cage believed him to be something evil.
I won’t give too much away as more of the story evolves in season 2.
Some writers (like myself) have had nightmares about someone like Annie Wilkes coming to hobble us in our beds. We get to meet a young Annie and the story of how she became the way she was.
Her story is more tragic than anything. She suffers from mental illness and is on the run from someone or something with her daughter Joy. We find out more about their uneasy relationship and the reason why the run from town to town.
They get into a car accident near Castle Rock and are stranded. Annie has no choice but to take a nursing job in town until they are able to move on. Annie doesn’t let anyone stand in her way but there is someone who is making it hard for her to leave.
My Review
I enjoyed the show. I have watched and read many of Stephen King’s books, and having a show where all of the characters of his books somehow appear in some shape or form was very exciting. It was world’s colliding.
8/10
Castle Rock is on Hulu now!