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Critic Reviews
RogerEbert.comJul 24, 2018
Season 1 Review:
When Castle Rock is focused on being a damn fine story--a smart one, a playful one--it can be good, even great. When it tries to be a wonderland for King fans, it races past the line of referential, rounds through fan service, and steps into cliché, sometimes even inching toward self-parody. Your response to that particular tendency may range from puzzlement, particularly if you’re not much of a King fan, to downright irritating.
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TV Guide MagazineJul 19, 2018
Season 1 Review:
It's unclear from the first chapters where Castle Rock will rank in the King canon, but judging from the horrific visions generated by the prison's mystery man, we're in for a frightfully fun ride. [23 Jul - 5 Aug 2018, p.10]
Jul 24, 2018
Jul 12, 2018
Season 1 Review:
The show excels at bookending its episodes with big set pieces and stylish suspense sequences. It lets the slack out in between, when all those stories have to jockey for position with the mythology and characters, who are still only partially formed nearly halfway through the season. Castle Rock has to have a lot of personality, because a lot of the people living there don’t.
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TV Guide MagazineNov 6, 2019
Season 2 Review:
The clash between grounded psychological horror and bump-in-the-night monster mania delivers fewer shivers than shrugs of confusion. [28 Oct - 10 Nov 2019, p.9]
Jul 25, 2018
Season 1 Review:
A bit of a mixed bag. As the series unfolds, there are King-like touches aplenty, including spectacular acts of violence, unnerving monologues by folksy keepers of Castle Rock lore, and flashbacks that give you just enough information to chill the blood but not enough to resolve ongoing mysteries.
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Jul 24, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Four episodes in, the plenitude of incident creates an effect more like dilution than density, and it’s hard to see the trees for the forest of allusion. Castle Rock sometimes feels like a grab bag of rehashed tropes. It is freshest when its paranormality flickers with metaphors for a real world haunted by prison systems and spotted with dying small towns and plagued by sensations of outsiderness.
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Jul 11, 2018
Season 1 Review:
The failure to get hooked in the story was becoming particularly frustrating by the fourth episode, which at least pushes the series forward by the end. Generally, the show isn't at all scary, nor is it all that suspenseful, and I can't quite put my finger even on the exact genre it's working in.
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Jul 24, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Almost halfway into a 10-episode season, Castle Rock hasn’t made the case that you should care, beyond a generic sense of spooky mystery--or, maybe, a pre-existing attachment to the Stephen King Extended Universe. .... Castle Rock--certainly well-acted and produced, with some striking set pieces--may work well for completists. But it isn’t so successful as TV.
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