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“They never believe me”

Still shattered from his ghastly encounter with the crawling figure in the bootleggers’…

“Whose hand was I holding?”

“I’m gonna fix her”

It looks like we’ll be treated to chapters focusing on the Crain children individually, weaving…

Whatever walked there walked alone

“How much doubt are you folks comfortable with?” 

The biggest revelation of “Henry Deaver,” the penultimate episode of Castle Rock’s uneven first season, isn’t the…

There was always a danger, lurking since the premiere, that Castle Rock would get bogged down in recreating an…

“The Queen” is the most affecting, effective episode of Castle Rock’s first season so far, and a potent antidote to…

“What’s with all the missing pieces? Grandma?”

“It was that damned dog,” Ruth Deaver laments to her son in the aftermath of her leap from the bridge—from the Pangbo…

“There’s a lot of history in this town, and not all of it good,” Molly Strand straight-talks her out-of-town buyers…

“Has it begun?”

“Remember the dog? The strangler? Sure you do.” Early in Castle Rock’s second episode, Dale Lacy’s voice-over sets…

Castle Rock opens in flashback, showing Alan Pangborn (the quietly capable, deceptively adept sheriff of Stephen…

“Nobody leaves until we celebrate this place!”

One day is almost never enough time to resolve a longstanding problem. But sometimes, a sitcom half-hour—or that…

Real friends will help you bury the body

“Ruth’s gonna do what Ruth’s gonna do.”

Last week, I described Cece and Schmidt’s daughter as more of an adorable…

“You get one story. Take it away, Nick.”

There’s a lot going on under the surface in “Tuesday Meeting.” Last week, New…

“Don’t make it about the mustache!”

As New Girl hurtled toward the end of its sixth-season—and, at the time, the…