‘Castle Rock’ Season 2 Confirmed By Hulu
Hulu wants to stay in theStephen Kingbusiness, so they’ve given the go-ahead toCastle Rockseason 2. So get ready to spend even more time in King’s famous haunted town. In the past, creatorsDustin ThomasonandSam ShawconfirmedCastle Rockwill be an anthology, with new characters and stories each season. Which means you can expect a whole new world of King-centric horrors to come.
Castle Rockseason 1 is currently engrossing large audiences each week, so much so that Hulu is more than willing to give it a second season. Per Hulu,Castle Rockwas “the most successful first-season original launch” for the streaming service, as well as having “the highest view-through rates” for a Hulu original in its first and second weeks. The show is set within the world of Stephen King. WhileCastle Rockisn’t a straight adaptation of any specific King work, it’s loaded withStephen King easter eggs. It’s also pretty damn engrossing.
At times, the mystery boxing ofCastle Rockcan grow frustrating. But there’s a pretty good chance that most of the unanswered questions will be wrapped up before season 2 – in order to make room for a whole new set of mysteries. When I spoke withCastle Rockcreators Dustin Thomason and Sam Shaw at Comic-Con, they confirmed thatCastle Rockis an anthology show, with each season introducing a new story and new set of characters.
“Our plan was always to tell a series of self contained stories,” Shawsaid. “[And to] approach each season as an unwritten Stephen King novel. [King is like] a genre unto himself…and there are seven or eight well defined sub-genres [as well]. We’ve always loved the stories dealing with crime and punishment, and prisons, and Stephen King sort of grappling with real-world monsters – and what we do with them, and where we put them, how we treat them, and whether that makesusmonsters. So this season is written very much in the shadow of [The Shawshank Redemption] andThe Green Mile, and some of the stories that deal with incarceration.”
While I’ve been enjoyingCastle Rockseason 1, I’m very interested to see what type of King-inspired story the creators will come up with for season 2. There’s a whole world of options to choose from. King is, of course, experiencing a big resurgence at the moment. The author’s work never really went away, but thanks primarily to the box office success of 2017’sIt, more and more producers are jumping on the Stephen King bandwagon and greenlighting adaptations, remakes and more. The pessimist in me realizes that this Stephen King adaptation bubble is going to eventually burst. For now, though, the Stephen King fan in me is happy to ride it out.
