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Stephen Kingcast

Episode 169-Mike Flanagan's Gerald's Game (2017)

Stephen Kingcast

Constant Reader

Tv & Film, Arts, Arts:books, Books

4.7680 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2017

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back, everyone! This weekend, I settled in to Netflix and Chill with Mike Flanagan's dream project, the adaptation of Gerald's Game! How does he do with the challenging material?  Does he do it justice? Does he improve upon it?  Find out this week in the Stephen Kingcast!

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0:00.0

If you ever change your mind

0:03.0

Change your mind

0:20.0

Go about leaving, leaving behind.

0:25.6

Hey, yeah, bring it to me, bring your sweet loving, bring it all comes to me.

0:35.6

Hello everyone, welcome to the Stephen King cast,

0:37.6

one man's musings, on the works of Stephen King.

0:39.5

Each week I will review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King

0:42.4

in the chronological order of publication.

0:44.1

And this week I get to review the latest adaptation in Stephen King's works,

0:51.7

which is Mike Flanagan's Gerald's game, which dropped, um,

0:56.2

Friday morning at midnight on Netflix. And it's been the, the talk of the town, so to speak.

1:01.8

It is a, a worthy entry in the, what people are calling the king asants. I don't know if that's

1:08.3

the appropriate term to be using. Again, that goes back to the McConaanissance from a couple of years back when Matthew McConaughey blew up.

1:14.9

Again, I would actually, if we were going to term this anything, I probably would call it something like the reign of the king.

1:22.8

It's more appropriate for Stephen King's last name.

1:25.0

Anyway, guys, I will definitely get to Gerald's game in a little bit, but first I just want

1:29.4

to welcome everyone.

1:30.5

That might be tuning in for the first time.

1:33.1

I know that there's been an uptick in Stephen King interest with the release of It back

1:39.0

earlier this month.

1:41.2

I've definitely seen an increase in traffic on the site. So that's great, guys.

1:45.1

Thank you so much. Thank you for the support. New listeners, long-time listeners. Thank you.

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