{"id":11848,"date":"2018-07-11T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/?p=11848"},"modified":"2018-07-11T07:20:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T11:20:50","slug":"bev-vincent-reviews-castle-rock-hulu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/bev-vincent-reviews-castle-rock-hulu\/","title":{"rendered":"Bev Vincent reviews Castle Rock on Hulu"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Stephen<\/p>\n

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“I fear this place. I fear what’s to come.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In 2018, Castle Rock, the town Stephen King introduced in The Dead Zone<\/em> and returned to numerous times in subsequent works, isn\u2019t on the map any more. A few years ago, the town voted to disincorporate itself. The historic downtown is mostly home to boarded-up businesses. Nan\u2019s Luncheonette burned under mysterious circumstances a while back. The nearest Wal-Mart is some sixty miles distant[1]. The town\u2019s main employer is Shawshank Prison, twenty miles away. A considerable percentage of the people behind bars in that establishment are from Castle Rock.<\/p>\n

This is the setting for Castle Rock<\/em>, the anthology series that launches on Hulu on July 25, 2018, with three of its ten episodes debuting on that day. The term \u201canthology series\u201d was confusing at first. Did it mean that each episode was more-or-less standalone? In other words, were we going to get ten discrete, unrelated stories about Stephen King\u2019s most famous troubled town?<\/p>\n