Your number one fan –
“People around here, they forget. They forget the past. It’s written in blood.”
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tells the story of a prisoner’s disappearance, whileCastle Rock ‘s focus is the mysterious appearance of a prisoner nobody knew about.
Season one opened with the suicide of the local prison warden, Dale Lacy (Terry O’Quinn) and the discovery that he secretly kept a mysterious young man — known only as the Kid (Bill Skarsgård) —captive for decades. Not only did the Kid not age, violent outbreaks seemed to follow in his wake. The show remained cagey about who the Kid was, whether he was a monster or a victim, even in the finale, with its distinctively King-like denouement.
The season highlight was the heartbreaking seventh episode, “The Queen,” told entirely from the point of view of Ruth (Sissy Spacek), whose age-related dementia is rapidly worsening and affecting her ability to distinguish between the present and the past. (At several points, she walks out of a conversation in the present and into a different conversation in 2018.) The episode has deep personal resonance for Shaw, whose own mother suffered from dementia and died unexpectedly a few days after he started writing the series. II called it“the most beautifully constructed, superbly acted hour of television of you’re likely to see this year.”
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‘s second season doesn’t have a single standalone episode of quite the same caliber, but it still packs a punch. The source material this time around is King’s award-winning (novel,) Misery, featuring one of his most memorable characters, Annie Wilkes, a psychotic (and murderous) former nurse.In the novel, a middle-aged Annie rescues her favorite novelist, Paul Sheldon, after a car accident in which he breaks both legs. Paul’s last novel killed off the central heroine of his Victorian romance series, Misery Chastain, as he had grown tired of the character and wanted to write crime novels. But his “Number One fan,” as Annie calls herself, refuses to accept Misery’s demise and holds Paul captive, forcing him to resurrect Misery in a new novel — or else. The (film) starred Kathy Bates as Annie, who won an Oscar for her performance, which included an infamous scene in which Annie chops off Paul’s foot with an ax to ensure he can’t escape.
In King’s novel, it’s clear that Annie suffers from schizophrenia and / or bipolar disorder. Paul Sheldon discovers a scrapbook of newspaper clippings hinting that Annie was accused and acquitted of killing infants at a hospital maternity ward in Colorado, and may have murdered as many as 30 people.Castle Rock‘s storyline focuses on a youthful Annie (Lizzy Caplan) on the run from an unspecified past with her teenaged daughter Joy (Elsie Fisher). Annie takes stints as a nurse in various hospitals and stays just long enough to steal the medication she needs to keep her mental illness in check before hitting the road in search of a utopian vision she calls the “laughing place.”
Naturally, the pair end up in Castle Rock, and Annie takes a job with the hospital in nearby Jerusalem’s Lot — the second of King’s trinity of fictional Maine towns, the third being Derry (the setting forIT
Caplan gives a fantastic performance as Annie, capturing the character’s trademark awkward earnestness, lack of direct eye contact, stiff gait, and odd speech patterns and phrasing (“dirty bird,” “cockadoodie,” and the like). It’s a very human (and humane) depiction of someone struggling to control her mental illness. Annie may be a little crazy, particularly when her meds run out, but she’s driven primarily by her love for Joy and proves to be a formidable opponent to anything that would threaten her daughter.
Season two also stars Tim Robbins as a veteran named Reginald “Pop” Merrill. Despite his late-stage cancer, he wields a tight hold on local commerce with the help of his two nephews, Ace (Paul Sparks) and Chris (Matthew Alan). Pop also adopted two Somali refugees as teenagers, now grown: Abdi (Barkhad Abdi), who is building a mall in Jerusalem’s Lot, and his sister, Nadia (Yusra Warsama), the medical director at the hospital where Annie works. The family gets sucked into the supernatural threat facing the town (s), too. Over the course of ten episodes, tensions flare, secrets are revealed, and we learn the true nature of what Annie awakened.
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But gradually the two threads converge as we learn more about the town’s history — including an unexpected twist that provides a link between season two with season one. Here’s hopingCastle Rockgets a third season so we can learn more about this common element loosely tying the anthology’s storylines together.
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