Hello everyone, 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 the chronological order of publication,

and this week I am reviewing episode 8 of Hulu's Castle Rock.

So guys, before I get into my thoughts, I'm going to read from decider.com, Zach Dion's recap so that we have a basis

upon which I can build my analysis. So from Zach Dion, who writes,

The Genius Execution of the Queen forced us to leave Henry hanging in the filter, being blasted with schisma or into the schism.

Something.

Despite Odin branches pontificating, we still don't know.

And as with many things, we aren't finding out tonight.

In Castle Rock, episode 8, past perfect, we aren't even reuniting with our guy until we take in a ten-min

vignette about a man's descent into madness. In many ways, a miniaturized version of the shining.

Lost-style boom, a thrumming bell, and a jarring swipe of the camera, whoosh us to the face

of an about to snap professor named Gordon. He's barely familiar.

Half of the couple Molly briefly tried selling a house, and it's discomforting having no clue why

we're here. The show keeps injecting meaning anywhere it can, though, and the smug guy in the hot seat

contends repression is a cruel Darwinian tool. The human mind is expressingly designed to forget

much of its past suffering. The Shining's very first sentence fits another cold open on an

interview with a violent academic. Jack Torrance thought, a ficious little prick. The

dufus is the only, is only in the room so the prof can assault him for sleeping with his

wife. Gordon said wifey by Gordon and said wifey by Lorden by Warden Lacey's house to turn to

...