Castle Rock (2018)

Watchseries; Overall, it was a disappointment. I felt like it was advertised to be a piece that was going to connect a lot of the Castle Rock stories, and even the title sequence references that idea. But this is a stand alone story, that mentions places and familiar names in Castle Rock, but doesn't connect anything. Sure, there is good ol' Shawshank and the Mellow Tiger, and you have Jackie Torrance and Sheriff Pangborn and several references to Cujo, but that's all they are - references. As a long time Stephen King fan, I was looking for so much more.

In addition, this story isn't very good, and is very slow. The bright spots are Sissy Spacek's amazing acting (especially in the episode "The Queen"), and a nice, grumpy turn by Scott Glenn. But that's where it stops. The rest of the cast is just so-so. It's like a sports team: the money was spent on two awesome players, and the rest of the roster is just okay. Those two are nice to have, but the team isn't going to succeed. That's how I feel about this series. Not a success.

Overall, it was a disappointment. I felt like it was advertised to be a piece that was going to connect a lot of the Castle Rock stories, and even the title sequence references that idea. But this is a stand alone story, that mentions places and familiar names in Castle Rock, but doesn't connect anything. Sure, there is good ol' Shawshank and the Mellow Tiger, and you have Jackie Torrance and Sheriff Pangborn and several references to Cujo, but that's all they are - references. As a long time Stephen King fan, I was looking for so much more.

In addition, this story isn't very good, and is very slow. The bright spots are Sissy Spacek's amazing acting (especially in the episode "The Queen"), and a nice, grumpy turn by Scott Glenn. But that's where it stops. The rest of the cast is just so-so. It's like a sports team: the money was spent on two awesome players, and the rest of the roster is just okay. Those two are nice to have, but the team isn't going to succeed. That's how I feel about this series. Not a success.

Castle Rock watchseries. My life must really be boring for me to keep watching this show. After 8 weeks I'm not sure what is going on. There is nothing really interesting happening. You think something is about to happen based on the loud obnoxious music, then more of the same, nothing. I gave it 2 stars because at times i was interested and kept watching. Now I wish I could get that time back. Slow, boring, and confusing. Horrible show!!

It's a shame these writers are the ones getting to tell stories from a Stephen King Universe. Seemed like all the little interesting pieces were going somewhere just to have it all turn in to a handful of nothing in the last episode. Such a shame.

Loved this. Perfect amount of dark and mystery! I always struggle to stick to most shows. But this! We were gripped from episode one and watched the whole season in one weekend. Brilliant acting, love the style of it too - feels like I'm back in the 90s. Love this new tv Stephen King universe and can't wait for s2.

First of all, I do not get the impression the two creators of the show ever read a Stephen King book other than the synopsis on the back of some of his books. There is little elements of Stephen King in here or his books, other than keeping the names of certain buildings, and off-handedly mentioning things, here and there. I feel like the creators sold the idea on the interesting concept explored in the first episodes...but had no idea where it was going beyond that. It shows. You're intrigued at first and follow along despite the show being slow, because Bill Skarsgard is just so creepy, weird, and intriguing, and Sissy Spacek is great, and you feel like it's going somewhere...but then you realize, maybe it's not...and then eventually you don't care where it's going because it just seems like a ship adrift that doesn't know where it's going either.

Also, the main character, Henry is seriously out classed by his fellow actors which as the show goes along stands out more and more. You begin to wonder how the heck this guy was hired to lead a cast of Sissy Spacek, Melanie Lynsky and other big name TV actors, and the excellent performance of new star Bill Skarsgard. I also was finding it hard to believe that every women he encounters seems to be throwing herself at him or flirting with him. He looks like he had a chest hair graft put on his face as a beard and it's very distracting. It eventually became all I could focus on when I saw him because his acting was so one-note. His character is also such a jerk, always angry, it is hard to believe why anyone would like him, including the audience. It's like the actor is stuck on one emotion the whole time which makes it really hard to follow him through most of the show.

I really got the impression the creators are big David Lynch fans and not Stephen King fans. But even David Lynch could follow a steady, engaging plot the majority of the time and was great at creating mood. The mood in this show is also one-note. There's simply no depth. No evolvement. The people think it's a crap town from the beginning of the show and it only gets worse. Why? The town looks cute. It's Maine. Maine is beautiful. It just didn't make much sense and didn't seem to be going anywhere worth going.

Started off well,i was totally excited for the show just to witness the brilliance of stephen king. It was hard at first to catch up with the story and predict the upcoming events, i was impressed by the fact that they managed to keep the plot so obscured till the 5th episode,then came the 6th episode and i was still patient, waiting for them disclose at least something that would encourage us to continue with show.Now after the 8th episode i am absolutely certain that this series is a fiasco, scattered sequences rendered into 10 episodes which lead to multiple plot-holes. Some cringy scenes which i ignored at first are also coming to my attention right now.