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Stephen Kingcast

Episode 239-The Ending of Revival

Stephen Kingcast

Constant Reader

Tv & Film, Arts, Arts:books, Books

4.7680 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

It's alive! It's alive! This podcast is alive, and it's here to talk about the ending to one of King's latest, the 2014 release of Revival.  As always, write in at stephenkingcast@yahoo.com Follow me on Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Bluesky. Stay organized and up to date with all things Stephen King at stephenkingcast.com Check out bonus material, early episodes and reviews of all things pop culture over at patreon.com/stephenkingcast

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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.

0:06.0

Once I reviewed each of his works in the chronological order of publication, but Ka is a wheel, it all goes around again,

0:12.0

and here I am once more on a new phase of the journey, one to examine each of the endings of the works of Stephen King,

0:18.0

to determine whether or not King deserves the reputation that he has for having

0:21.7

an inability to successfully land his endings. The focus of the podcast will be to examine the

0:26.8

climax, the following action, and the resolution of the endings to each of his novels and break

0:31.0

it down by character themes, conflict, and plot. To determine whether or not it meets the criteria

0:35.8

of being an objectively good ending, will also weigh in on whether or not it happened the criteria of being an objectively good ending.

0:37.7

I'll also weigh in on whether or not it happened to personally, subjectively like the ending,

0:42.0

and today I'm here to discuss the ending of revival.

0:45.0

Now before I get to the ending of revival, I want to head back in time a little bit and talk about

0:49.1

last week's episode in which I discussed the ending of Mr. Mercedes.

0:57.7

So I still need your help, guys.

1:03.1

Please write into Stephen Kingcast at Yahoo.com to share any thoughts that you have.

1:06.8

If I am way off the mark, please tell me.

1:08.2

I need some feedback here.

1:12.9

I don't know if I have as good a grasp on Mr. Mercedes as I should,

1:18.6

or maybe I do, I don't know. And it's exactly what I see is what I get. But I do want your feedback and your thoughts on Mr. Mercedes. So please write into Stephen Kingcast at yahoo.com.

1:24.4

And speaking of which, I have some listener emails here who have done just that, who have written into Stephen Kingcast at yahoo.com. And speaking of which, I have some listener emails here,

1:32.4

who have done just that, who have written into Stephen Kingcast at Yahoo.com. And up first,

1:37.1

we have Chris, who writes, Constant Reader. I'm glad to hear a new episode this morning on one of my favorites, 1122.63. I realize it's become more difficult to regularly produce

1:42.6

episodes on Stephen King, as you've exhausted many angles to his work.

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