The Latecomers

The plague is over and the survivors are on the move. We watched Part 2 of The Stand – The Dreams. We fall in love with Nick and Tom and hope a safe falls on Julie. Ruby Dee shines and Larry drops some dead weight. Kojak is a good good boy and Harold continues to be a problematic creep. What’s next? Why, it’s a betrayal…

Recommendations: Dr. Sleep

Next up: The Stand (1994) Part 3

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This week we dive into part one of the 1994 ABC miniseries of The Stand. We lament Frannie, lust after Nick, commend Stu, but not his feet, question Larry, curtsey and bow to Mother Abagail, look for our fat representation in Harold (and miss it) and we ask you – Baby, can you dig your man? No? Us either.

Now give us more cowbell- because we’ve got a fever and there’s only one cure.

Recommendations: Zombieland Double Tap; Holiday in the Wild

Next up: The Stand (1994) Part 2

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This week we do a Recast-o-polooza retrospective on the first five seasons of the show.

Season One: Twin Peaks – we manage 2 maybe 3 characters.

We hope you like listening to this episode as much as we enjoyed putting it together for you.

Next up: The Stand (1994) Part 1

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Rewatching the TNT modern classic, Lemuel and Amity watched The Shawshank Redemption in a new and novel way – with forethought from beginning to end. Sometimes Stephen King writes a damn fine drama and this is one of those times. Also helpful, nary a woman to be seen, so nary a female character to mess up. We discuss the pitfalls of marketing and what makes a cult classic.

If you haven’t watched this in a while – or if you haven’t seen the entire thing from the beginning, do yourself a favor, turn on TNT, it’s probably on sometime in the next 48 hours – watch it all the way through and then listen in.

Recommendations: Schitt’$ Creek available on Netflix.

Next up: Our 100th Episode Special!

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Leaving Castle Rock for the neighboring town of Haven, this week Lemuel and Amity had Tommyknockers knocking at the door. We discuss the origins of the story – both folklorically and plageristically. We tut tut the small choices of these small town people and we ask the important question: Huh?

Recommendations: Quatermass and the Pit (that’s Five Million Years to Earth in the US) and Mindhunter Season 2 available on Netflix.

Next up: The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Rentable on all your streaming rentable places

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Back in Castle Rock with Alan Pangborn, we delve into a far too short film with far too much crammed into it. I once believed there was no such thing as too much cheese, and then I ate a quesadilla that proved me wrong. This is that quesadilla and plot is the cheese – it’s too much! But everyone is doing some spectacular acting and, once you get past Stephen King’s apparent hatred of dogs, we get a fun romp?

Next up: The Tommyknockers (1993) Find it on Youtube!

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This week we look deep into Timothy Hutton’s blue, blue eyes and ask, what do the sparrows mean, though? The confusion runs deep as we watched the Dark Half and many questions are asked while none are really answered. Who is this doppelgänger – George Stark? Alexis Machine? Actual Twin? Are sparrows on earth as the devil’s eyeballs? Is it possible for makeup to get better as it gets worse? When did college classes become a cliché?

We also briefly touch on two movies we opted out of and the reasons why – Sleepwalkers and The Lawnmower Man.

Recommendations: Cinemability and the Casefile Podcast

Next up: Needful Things (1993) available on Starz – the short version

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We called an audible and watched the entire Golden Years series for this episode. A miniseries of awesome characters doing… well… not much. And time travel with about four minutes of thought put into it. We put much more thought into our time travel discussion, along with discussion of appropriate sleeping attire, surname etymology, old age makeup, the dangers of shower sex and so much more.

Recommendations: Undone on Amazon Prime and It Chapter 2.

Next up: The Dark Half (1993) available on Hulu

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This week we tackle Sometimes They Come Back, a CBS television movie starring Time Mathieson and not Margot Kidder. We have you standard King street toughs with a standard King twist. The plot may be formulaic, but at least that kid is clearly making terrible choices! We try to discern time, location, and what is real. Do we have any luck? Listen to find out.

Next up: The Golden Years (1991) Check your local library!

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We take on the backend of the original It miniseries from 1990. Amity gets more Jonathan Brandis and everyone is treated to John Ritter yelling the best ridiculousness. We shame jewelry and outerwear choices and morn the fallen.

Next up: Sometimes They Come Back (1990) You can watch it on Youtube in HD – or rent it like we did on Amazon or VUDU.

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