CASTLE ROCK Boss on Annie’s ‘Demons,’ Ties to Season 1, and What Might Come Next

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CASTLE ROCK Boss on Crafting ‘The Laughing Place’—and Its Twists

[Warning: This post contains spoilers for CASTLE ROCK’s “The Laughing Place.”]

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CASTLE ROCK: Paul Sparks on the Very Memorable Season Premiere Scene

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CASTLE ROCK Post-Mortem: Dustin Thomason on That Supernatural Twist

[Warning: This post contains spoilers for the first three episodes of CASTLE ROCK season 2.]

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CASTLE ROCK Team Teases Bringing (New) MISERY Into Season 2

CASTLE ROCK returns for its second installment on Wednesday, October 23 (with the first three episodes dropping at once on Hulu), and the series feels very, very different.

While season 1 relied on the location and a few key characters from the Castle Rock history, the primary story was a mystery told through original characters. In season 2, the series is centered on an iconic Stephen King character: Annie Wilkes (played here by Lizzy Caplan), in her pre-MISERY days.

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CASTLE ROCK Season 2: Hulu Sets October Premiere Date

CASTLE ROCK will return with its second installment on Wednesday, October 23.

Hulu announced the news via a cheeky Instagram teaser, which noted “Misery arrives October 23.” (The second season follows a pre-MISERY Annie Wilkes, played by MASTERS OF SEX’s Lizzy Caplan.)

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CASTLE ROCK Season 1 Finale: Dustin Thomason on That Mysterious Smile, Timelines, and Season 2

[This post contains spoilers for the first season of CASTLE ROCK.]

CASTLE ROCK’s first season ended with a number of questions…and a whole lot of possibilities for where the series could go next.

Details of the already-ordered second season are being kept under lock and key, but a potential tease was dropped in a mid-credits sequence: Jackie Torrance (Jane Levy), niece of “The Shining’s” driven-mad Jack, mentioned she was westward bound to the Overlook Hotel, the location of  the 1977 novel.

But certainly if the writers don’t go down that road, there were enough lingering threads they could return to in the next installment of the anthology series. The penultimate episode of the season opened up the possibility of multiple universes (and timelines)…and the final shot of The Kid (Bill Skarsgård) smirking was just vague enough to go practically anywhere.

So how did the pieces of the puzzle fall into place? And what comes next? CASTLE ROCK co-showrunner Dustin Thomason shared a few teases about what went down and what’s to come…

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Did CASTLE ROCK’s Finale Tease the Season 2 Theme?

[Warning: This post contains spoilers for the CASTLE ROCK finale and a well-known Stephen King book. The title of the King book itself is a spoiler, but is named in the post with an additional warning before the plot information starts. It may also contain spoilers for CASTLE ROCK season 2, but it’s speculation at this point.] Read more