 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome to Castle Talk with my co-host, Shell. We are talking about the first episode of Castle Rock that is now airing on Hulu as of today, July 25th. We're talking about episode one, Severance. So right off the bat, Shell is not a Stephen King reader. I think you read what, Cell? Yeah. Yeah. She's read Cell. So that's pretty much her exhaustive knowledge of Stephen King. That's it. I've seen the movies, though, and you know, the Navy TV stuff, but you know, that's... Christine's one of her favorite movies, though. Yeah. Yeah. It's much different than the book, though. Silver Bullet. Silver Bullet. That's another one. That's actually Cycle of the Werewolf. Is the name of that one? Oh yeah. That was the one that was on my mom's shelf for like years. Yeah. It's back here in, right there, Cycle of the Werewolf. We'll get to that in the Thursday theory stuff. But today, like I said, we're talking about episode one, Severance of Castle Rock on Hulu. I'm going to let you say what you thought not being a King fan, if it worked out for her, that kind of thing, what she thought, and then I will give my stuff. I was confused. Like, okay. So home dude disappeared when he was a kid. Oh, spoilers, by the way. Yeah, spoilers. Yeah. And then he comes back. Wait. Henry Dever. What? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Henry Dever. But, and then he gets adopted by a white family, and who the heck is calling? What I want to know is what happened to his mother, because they said his dad got his back broke and then died of exposure or something. He didn't last for like three days. Yeah. So what happened to mom? Yeah, what happened to mom? Yeah, what happened to mom? His biological mom, because you know, home dude, you know, Hulu and I meet. So what? And his parents look like me. Yeah, it's cool. I love that. But there's some questions like, okay, so what else happened in his past? And how does all that lead to him having the job that he does now? Why does he have this job? I think that somewhere in there, there's a connection that's important. And why is he in Texas now instead of Maine? Yeah, why is he in Maine? Like, was the whole purpose of him becoming a lawyer so he could move away from Maine? I wonder, I mean, because it can't be cool growing up being the kid that disappeared and your dad died, and they said that you did it. So I would imagine not wanting to stay there, but why all the way in Texas? This is true. Well, I mean, warmer climate. One of the coolest parts for me so far is we lived up in Brewer, Maine for two years. And we know Bangor. And that was fun. It was fun seeing that. We watched, yeah, we watched, when we watched the show, it was like, we know where that is. We know where that is. We've been there. I'm actually surprised they didn't go to West Broadway and film something with King's House. They might still, who knows. But my thing, it was a blast that way. It was also fun because Shawshank, you got Sissy Spasic, his mom, Sissy Spasic played Carrie. You had Bill Skarsgard as the strange dude that appeared, well, not appeared, that was in the cage, how long has he been in the cage? Yeah. What's the deal there? And I have some theories on who he is. As far as the lore, Stephen King lore is concerned. And what's up with him just popping in and popping out of places? The end of that episode. Oh, I'm not in the frame. Wait, what? The end of that episode, man, he's going through there, reminded me of Linoge in Storm of the Century. But we also got, like I said, Bill Skarsgard, he was Pennywise in the new It reboot. Yeah, that was fun. I'm pretty sure Warden Lacy, the guy that played him, I can't remember his name, my apologies. I'm pretty sure he's been in Stephen King adaptations also, so I don't know. Some of the things that I caught, the name Pruitt, the name Chambers, and I also think that Lacy's first name, I don't know if they actually said it in the show, but they were scraping it off and I saw an EN at the end that they hadn't scraped off yet when they're scraping his name off the door. I'm thinking his name is Ogden Lacy, and I seem to remember something in a Stephen King book about an Ogden Lacy. Now, is that the actual Warden from Shawshank Redemption? Rita, how are you within the shot? I don't remember. It might be, so if you know how we do this, leave all the comments down there. Oh, Alan Pangborn was a huge, that was just cool. Oh, yeah, he's on the name tag, right? Seeing, as soon as I saw Pangborn, I freaked out. I was like, Alan, yes. We haven't heard from Alan since Needful Things, so it was nice seeing him, but Chambers is another name that pops up throughout the entirety of the Kingverse. I mean, it's in Cujo, Jake Chambers from the Dark Tower, so there's a lot of Chambers, but when they mentioned Chambers, they mentioned Chambers in Texas. I think it's the woman's name, almost for a second, I thought it was Dolores Claiborne. I thought it was Dolores sitting there that he was defending. I had no, I was hoping, but they hadn't said it was in Texas yet, so. Right. And Dolores happens in Castle Rock, and Storm of the Century happens on Little Tau Island, and Castle Reach, or the story, the Reach, the Reach is what separates Little Tau Island and Castle Rock, and there's even a story called the Reach where the old woman goes walking across there, and there's only so many months out of the year to walk from Castle Rock to Little Tau Island, which is where Storm of the Century was set. But there was so, there was so much, and I'm sure when I go back and watch it again, I'm going to catch more, at least I hope, because this one was kind of light on the, there was a lot of names dropped. I have some theories. I'm not going to give my theory for who Bill Skarsgard is yet. I'm going to wait and watch at least another episode. There's two more episodes right now, and then it's every Wednesday after that. So we will watch, I think the next one's Habeas Corpus, and I can't remember what the third one's called, but we'll watch, tomorrow you guys are getting a video on that episode, and then Friday you guys will be getting, there's double uploads tomorrow and the next day, because I'm going to be uploading Thursday Theorist, and then after that we'll be doing Castle Talk, which is the name of the show, and then on Friday we'll be doing the third episode, and then every single Wednesday from here on out until the show ends, we'll be doing Castle Talk. Is there anything else you want to add? No, I don't think so, I think we got it all. Did you enjoy the show, other than being confused? Early, I mean, yeah, but I have questions, and I hope that all this name dropping, and all these characters that they have thrown at us in just the first episode, I hope we get to know all of them. I hope this isn't one of those names where we're introduced to this person, and this person, and this person, and this person's mama, and then we don't actually have, like, three people. Yeah, I'm hoping this episode with all these names and all these nods isn't just fan service. Yeah, I hope that's come back around. Everything, everything comes back. I will say, Home Dude went out, I've never seen a death, like the one, the warden for this episode, Home Dude wanted to make sure he was dead. He tore his own head off with a noose in a car, and then, how did, also, how'd they find him? How'd they find him so quickly? That wouldn't have happened. Did he leave a note or something? I mean, the only person who witnessed it was the damn dog, unless the dog... Poor wolf. Poor wolf. My daughter said, oh, please don't let the dog watch this. He did. And I was like, what about the guy about to kill himself? Anyhow. I've known him, but he's a dog. Yes. So, that's our views. Please leave your own views and your own opinions down there. If you didn't like it, if you liked it, we'd love to hear from you down there in the comments below. But until next time, I have been E, you have been U. This has been Castle Talk With... Shell. We'll see you guys later. Bye-bye.