Can Jane Levy’s Jackie Torrance get her own season? Pretty please?
As of today, the season one finale of “Castle Rock” is up for streaming on Hulu, and this particular article will *not* contain spoilers. We’ll be talking about the finale at length tomorrow, but first up we wanted to share some insights into Season 2 and the series’ future, plucked from a new chat creators Sam Shaw and Dustin Thomason had with EW this week.
For starters, subsequent seasons of “Castle Rock” (a second has already been ordered by Hulu) will tell brand new stories, set in Castle Rock but (mostly) standalone in nature.
“Part of the fun of season 2 and beyond will be seeing what some of the questions [will be],” Shaw told the site. “The penultimate episode of this season points to the idea that there are other worlds than these, and in this final tag there’s this sense that there are worlds of Stephen King’s that this show may explore eventually that are more far-flung than the state of Maine.”
He continued, “Part of what we always set out to do from the beginning is tell a new story each season, to see things we haven’t seen before from the point of view of characters we haven’t met before in any season. That said, I think there’s something really terrific with the way Steve handles his anthology and his universe — you see Father Callahan in Salem’s Lot and then you bump up against him again in a huge way in The Dark Tower. The pleasure of finding your way back to stories or characters you’ve seen before in unexpected ways is a huge, exciting advantage of this series. I think it’s something that we can do, and allow it to be an anthology but still embrace stories and characters that we love.”
Cryptically, Shaw adds, “It just may not happen in the way that one might expect.”
Be sure to catch the season finale of “Castle Rock,” now available on Hulu.