Episode 217-Peter Askin's A Good Marriage (2014)
Stephen Kingcast
Constant Reader
4.7 • 680 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen King cast, One Man's Musings on the Works of Stephen King. |
| 0:05.3 | Each week I will review a different entry in the bibliography of Stephen King and the chronological order of publication. |
| 0:11.1 | And this week I will be reviewing a bad adaptation of a good marriage. |
| 0:16.7 | I'm just going to cut to the chase. It's not good. This is not a good movie. |
| 0:21.0 | And the movie that we're talking about is a good marriage, |
| 0:24.7 | which is an adaptation of... |
| 0:27.6 | I guess the crown jewel of the... |
| 0:31.6 | In the collection, Full Dark No Stars, |
| 0:34.2 | which I reviewed last episode. |
| 0:35.6 | And I know that there was a movie out there for |
| 0:38.3 | a good marriage which i remember when the uh the first poster came out for the good marriage |
| 0:47.0 | i just started the stephen king cast and it's like it was a great picture and i got excited for it |
| 0:52.7 | and it's the his and hers towels in the bathroom and |
| 0:55.5 | one of them has the you know the bloody handprint on and I was like I said oh my god that's great |
| 1:00.4 | that's a great visual to really represent what this story is of the everyday and the mundane of |
| 1:06.5 | just Stephen King examining marriage and the bloody handprint just says it all. |
| 1:13.1 | And, you know, I look forward to it. Then I didn't hear anything about it other than it came out. |
| 1:19.4 | And then I knew that that was not a good sign. And I held off on watching it until very, very recently. |
| 1:26.9 | And here we are. |
| 1:28.0 | I'll get into my review in a little bit, |
| 1:30.7 | but I think that in last week's review of Full Dark No Stars, |
| 1:35.4 | I hope that I made it clear that I think that a good marriage is an incredible novella. |
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