Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen King cast, one man's musings on the works of Stephen King.

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

of publication.

And this week what I am doing, I am turning my attention back to Hulu's Castle Rock,

which is not necessarily an adaptation of any of King's works, but an original creation

inspired by the works of Stephen King, drawing upon the past of Stephen King

and building off the history of the many decades of all the time and all the years that Stephen

King has put into his most famous small town, which is Castle Rock.

So if you're tuning in for the first time, welcome, guys, welcome to the Stephen King cast.

You can check out all of my thoughts on the first episode of Castle Rock in the previous episode.

And I'm just going to get right to it.

I'm going to forego any listener emails or iTunes reviews, although if you do have any thoughts on Castle Rock, any theories, your own analyses, what you have liked

or disliked so far, what you want to see from future seasons of Castle Rock, feel free to write

into Stephen Kingcast at Yahoo.com. You know, any fan casting because one of the joys of Castle Rock has been seeing Sissy Spacic

in this knowing that she was the OG Stephen King character with when she played

Carrie White and most recently we have Bill Scarsgard playing the kid.

As of right now, an unnamed character known as the kid who, you know, launched himself

into the stratosphere last summer with his portrayal of Pennywise, the dancing clown.

And many people had wondered if he was going to be able to fill the clown shoes that had been previously

worn by Tim Curry. And it's one of those things, much like the way Heath Ledger was able to

put his own stamp on the Joker when the Joker had, for decades, belonged to Jack Nicholson.

And he had done that, and so had Bill Scarsguard, and here we are.

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