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Stephen Kingcast

Episode 76-The Ending of It

Stephen Kingcast

Constant Reader

Tv & Film, Arts, Arts:books, Books

4.7680 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Let's talk about the ending of It. How does it hold up? 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, welcome to the Stephen King cast one man's musings on the works of Stephen King.

0:04.1

Once I reviewed each of his works and the chronological order of publication, but Ka is a wheel,

0:08.4

it all goes round again, and here I am, once more, back at the beginning on a new phase of the journey,

0:13.6

to examine each of the endings of the works of Stephen King,

0:16.3

to determine whether or not King deserves his reputation for having an ability,

0:19.6

an inability to successfully

0:21.5

land his endings. The focus of the podcast is going to be to examine the climax following action

0:28.6

and resolution of the endings to each of his novels and break it down by character themes,

0:32.4

conflict, and plot to determine whether or not it meets the criteria of being an objectively

0:36.2

good ending. I'm also going to weigh on on whether or not I happen the criteria of being an objectively good ending.

0:40.4

I'm also going to weigh on on whether or not I happen to like the ending.

0:42.5

So up first I'm going to read some... Oh, so first of all, I want to say that I apologize.

0:44.8

I'm a little behind on this particular episode.

0:47.6

It's one of the reasons why I re-released my reviews of It for the first time around.

0:55.4

This episode, I'm reviewing and analyzing the conclusion to It, so leading up to that,

1:00.3

I thought that I would get all of my thoughts on it in my three-part review of the book,

1:06.3

which was definitely for me one of the many goals that I had for myself on the first set,

1:13.7

I'm on the first round of this podcast.

1:17.9

And I really enjoyed the month that I spent in Derry working on that particular episode

1:24.0

and whenever I can revisit it, it always brings me back to the early days of the Stephen

1:29.4

Kingcast. Now here I am again. Once more talking about it, this time I'm going to be focusing on

1:34.3

the conclusion to it. The much discussed, much criticized, and I'm one of the critics of,

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