Castle Rock | |
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Based on | Castle Rock by |
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Theme music composer | Thomas Newman |
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Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 10 (list of episodes) |
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Running time | 43–59 minutes |
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Original network | Hulu |
Original release | July 25, 2018 – present |
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No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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1 | 'Severance' | Michael Uppendahl | Sam Shaw & Dustin Thomason | July 25, 2018 | |
In 1991 Castle Rock, Maine, Sheriff Alan Pangborn finds missing child Henry Deaver standing on the town's frozen lake. Twenty-seven years later, on his last day as warden of Shawshank State Penitentiary, Dale Lacy commits suicide. His successor, Theresa Porter, plans to reopen a long-abandoned cell block so that she can maintain the growing inmate population. While counting the beds, guard Dennis Zalewski comes across a mysterious, unaccounted-for inmate locked in an underground cage. The Kid, upon being released, whispers Henry's full name. Porter refuses to involve Henry, who is now a death-row lawyer, but Zalewski anonymously calls him. After returning to Castle Rock and reconnecting with Pangborn and his dementia-suffering mother Ruth, Henry attempts to learn more about The Kid only for Porter to stonewall him. Zalewski, meanwhile, discovers that The Kid has escaped and slaughtered several other guards. In a flashback, it is revealed that Henry's father went missing around the same time he did and was found dead. In a second flashback, Lacy tells The Kid to ask for Henry when the time comes. | |||||
2 | 'Habeas Corpus' | Michael Uppendahl | Sam Shaw & Dustin Thomason | July 25, 2018 | |
Henry tries to learn more about the events at Shawshank from Lacy's widow only to be kicked out when she accuses him of killing his father. Zalewski discovers that the mass slaughter was all in his head and confronts The Kid. Pangborn meets with Porter, telling her he found a letter written by Lacy. In the letter, he states his belief that the Devil had taken on the form of a boy and that he locked him away because God told him to. Porter immediately places The Kid in a new cell only for his cellmate to die of cancer. | |||||
3 | 'Local Color' | Dan Attias | Gina Welch | July 25, 2018 | |
In a flashback, young Molly sneaks into the Deaver house. Henry is still missing and his father is on life support. Molly pulls Matthew Deaver's ventilator and watches him die. Henry goes to see Adult Molly, asking her to help him put his mother's house on the market. but she declines. In a flashback, Molly tells Henry she knows what he does in his room, she can hear what he's thinking and feeling. Zalewski meets with Henry, who asks him to befriend The Kid. Molly has a flashback to the night Henry disappeared and sees Henry in the woods with his father, who asks, 'Do you hear it?' before Henry runs away. Molly's dealer is out so she goes to a house looking for 'Derek,' with she is negotiating a price when the cops show up. Henry bails her out. She tells him that being around him throws her off balance. When he finds out about her meeting for a TV show, he rushes her to the taping. She struggles to get through the interview, and suddenly announces live about The Kid being kept in the prison without cause. Henry is called to Shawshank and Porter acknowledges The Kid, offering Henry a settlement deal. Henry speaks with the Kid, who asks Henry, 'Do you hear it now?” Molly returns home to a ransacked house and sees a man with a gauze-covered head, resembling Pastor Deaver. | |||||
4 | 'The Box' | Michael Uppendahl | Scott Brown | August 1, 2018 | |
Henry experiences flashbacks from when he went missing and goes to the home of a suspect in his case. He finds the suspect who gives him the police file associated with his disappearance. Meanwhile, Henry's father's casket arrives at the church. Henry decides to take the prison's offer for the Kid, claiming he wants to go back to his family. Zalewski has an encounter with the Kid. When Henry tells him that he will take the settlement, Zalewski takes a gun and shoots many officers inside the prison before being gunned down himself, in front of Henry. | |||||
5 | 'Harvest' | Andrew Bernstein | Lila Byock | August 8, 2018 | |
Henry's father's casket arrives at the church before it's moved to the new plot, and the Father tells Henry that something odd is happening; the casket is dripping what is supposed to be Henry's father's cooked body (because the casket serves as an oven for the body in rare cases), but this shouldn't be happening because his father died a long time ago. Wildfires are raging near Castle Rock. Shawshank releases the Kid and Henry sets him up in the room above Molly's office. The Kid wanders into a family’s dinner/birthday celebration and seemingly causes a violent end. Jackie finds the Kid and hangs out with him. Alan is honored at a bridge-naming ceremony, during which Ruth is spooked by a dog and jumps off the bridge and into the water. Alan and Henry speak with her at the hospital. Alan discovers the Kid in the forest. Alan states that the Kid hasn’t aged a day since 1991 and the Kid offers to help Ruth. | |||||
6 | 'Filter' | Kevin Hooks | Vinnie Wilhelm & Marc Bernardin | August 15, 2018 | |
The episode opens with the second funeral and burial of Matthew Deaver, Henry's adoptive father. Henry begins to hear a ringing in his ear which he also experienced as a child. The Kid tells Alan to find Warden Lacy's old car in order to save Ruth's memory. Henry brings the Kid to Juniper Hills Psychiatric Hospital. Henry's son Wendell comes to visit. Ruth describes to Wendell how she uses chess pieces to help her memory. Henry goes to Molly to discuss the flashbacks he has of his father bringing him into the woods and Molly admits to murdering his father. Henry goes into the same woods that his father brought him into as a child. He discovers two campers, Odin, a deaf man, and Willie, his interpreter. Odin claims that the ringing Henry hears is a schisma, which Henry's father believed was the Voice of God. He tricks Henry into an anechoic chamber in their camper where he begins to hallucinate his father. The Kid has escaped Juniper Hills by setting a fire and Alan finds him on the front porch of the Deaver home with a bloody hand. Alan rushes into the house to try and find Ruth. | |||||
7 | 'The Queen' | Greg Yaitanes | Sam Shaw | August 22, 2018 | |
The timeline shifts between the past and present, at once recounting Ruth's life with Henry as a boy, scenes from previous episodes now through Ruth's point of view, and the Kid's mysterious intrusion into Ruth's house in the present. Ruth recalls Matthew Deaver's first time hearing 'the voice of God' and her relationship with Alan Pangborn. Expanding upon a scene from a previous episode, Wendell interprets Ruth's dementia with a VR game, calling Ruth a 'timewalker,' who must defeat her nemesis, Matthew Deaver in the form of the Kid. Back in the present, Ruth sends Wendell away to protect him. The Kid makes dinner for Ruth, and tells her to eat a sedative. In response, Ruth distracts the Kid by asking him to draw her a bath, does not take the pill, and runs upstairs to find a revolver. While at first she does not remember where the bullets are, her memories lead her to unpack the bullets in her suitcase. Returning to the events at the beginning of the episode, Ruth hides in the shed with the loaded revolver, ready to shoot the Kid when he walks through. Instead, she shoots and kills Alan Pangborn by accident as he walks through. | |||||
8 | 'Past Perfect' | Ana Lily Amirpour | Mark Lafferty | August 29, 2018 | |
Gordon and Lilith, who bought Lacy's house, turn it into a murder-story bed and breakfast. Gordon, who has trouble forgiving Lilith over her affair, murders their first booking – who are cheating on their spouses. That same night, Molly’s “connection” to Henry draws her to the woods, where she frees him from the locked chamber in Odin’s camper, though neither of them see Odin’s murdered corpse nearby. While The Kid tells Henry about Ruth killing Alan, and that he has waited for Henry for 27 years, Henry's son Wendell calls in the state police. The Kid runs off and is suspected in Alan's murder. Henry breaks into Lacy's (now Gordon’s) house and finds Lacy’s 27-years of drawings of an unchanging The Kid. Gordon and Lilith find him and try to kill him, fearful he’ll reveal the murder of their lodgers. In the melee, Lilith accidentally stabs herself in the jugular, while Jackie Torrance arrives and saves Henry by burying an axe in Gordon’s skull. The Kid visits Molly and finally starts talking, beginning with how he has seen her die in the woods. | |||||
9 | 'Henry Deaver' | Julie Anne Robinson | Vinnie Wilhelm & Scott Brown | September 5, 2018 | |
The Kid reveals to Molly that he is Henry Deaver, the biological son of Ruth and Pastor Matthew from an alternate reality. In a flashback in the Kid's universe, Ruth followed through on leaving her troubled husband in 1991, taking her child and fleeing to Boston. After they left, the Pastor was not murdered by 12-year-old Molly, but did find 12-year-old black Henry who went missing in 1991 in his reality. In 2018, this Pastor Deaver commits suicide, and grown white Henry finds the adopted Henry in a cage in the basement. White adult Henry and his Molly talk to adopted Henry, who insists the voices are calling him to the woods. When Molly touches his hand, she sees the first 12 years of the Molly and Henry of his reality. Molly and white Henry take adopted Henry to the woods near Castle Lake, where they see people from centuries of multiple realities. Molly is accidentally killed, adopted Henry returns to his reality, and white Henry follows him, becoming the Kid. | |||||
10 | 'Romans' | Nicole Kassell | Dustin Thomason & Mark Lafferty | September 12, 2018 | |
Molly explains to Henry what she has learned from The Kid regarding their intersecting lives and realities. Henry and The Kid are arrested as suspects in the flurry of deaths. In jail, The Kid tells Henry that bad follows him because he is an anomaly to this reality, and that they must go together to Castle Lake before the sounds, signifying the realities are touching, disappear. More strange deaths occur, leading to some Shawshank inmates slaughtering civilians and officers at the Castle Rock jail. Henry and The Kid escape in the confusion, with The Kid forcing Henry, at gunpoint, to Castle Lake. Henry starts to remember his experience with his father in 1991, including the fact that he pushed Preacher Deaver off a cliff for planning to kill his mother, Ruth. Henry overpowers The Kid. One year later, Henry is living in Castle Rock as a property lawyer, Molly is a successful real estate agent in the Florida Keys and The Kid is imprisoned in the now-abandoned Shawshank. In a mid-credits scene, Jackie talks to Dean Merrill about the book she is writing and her plans to travel west to research her family history. |
Year | Award | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
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2018 | People's Choice Awards | The Drama Show of 2018 | Castle Rock | Shortlisted | [58][59] |
2019 | Art Directors Guild Awards | Excellence in Production Design for a One Hour Single-Camera Series | Steve Arnold (for 'The Box') | Nominated | [60] |
Golden Reel Awards | Sound Editing - Episodic Long Form – Effects / Foley | Tim Kimmel, Bradley Katona, Jeffrey Wilhoit, Dylan Wilhoit, Brett Voss (for 'Severance') | Nominated | [61] | |
Writers Guild of America Awards | Television: Long Form – Original | Marc Bernardin, Scott Brown, Lila Byock, Mark Lafferty, Sam Shaw, Dustin Thomason, Gina Welch, & Vinnie Wilhelm | Won | [62] | |
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards | Best Series | Castle Rock | Nominated | [63][64] | |
Satellite Awards | Best Television Series – Genre | Castle Rock | Nominated | [65][66] | |
Saturn Awards | Best Streaming Horror & Thriller Series | Castle Rock | Nominated | [67] | |
Best Supporting Actress in Streaming Presentation | Sissy Spacek | Nominated |