Castle Rock’ssecond season , which is buildingan origin level for Stephen King villain Annie Wilkes , took a detour this calendar week to fill in some history on the town ofCastle Rockitself and Jerusalem ’s Lot next door — and to underline one of its most towering motif : The past surely has difficulty staying in the past times , does n’t it ?
With that came a huge reveal , so huge we need to talk about it here .
Pop ( Tim Robbins ) makes a very unpleasant discovery . Photo : Dana Starbard ( Hulu )
Annie Wilkes (Lizzy Caplan) may be in even more trouble than she realizes.Photo: Dana Starbard (Hulu)
We ’re all the means to episode seven , “ The Word , ” and so far Castle Rock has adhere to its guns about being an anthology series , with just the background and a few extend references here and there to prompt us that a lot of fucked - up stuff has find , and is still take place , in this especial corner of Maine .
Mostly , though , it ’s been focused on the quality introduced in season two ’s interconnected storylines . There are the fresh comer Annie and Joy ( Elsie Fisher ) ; Joy just rule out she ’s Annie ’s half - sis , not her girl , so there ’s been quite a lot to unpack there . We ’ve also seen violence erupt between Ace Merrill ( Paul Sparks ) and his espouse pal Abdi ( Barkhad Abdi ) , with Church Father figure Pop Merrill ( Tim Robbins ) , who ’s address with a terminal malignant neoplastic disease diagnosing , and Abdi ’s physician sister Nadia ( Yusra Warsama ) catch in the midsection .
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Pop (Tim Robbins) makes a very unpleasant discovery.Photo: Dana Starbard (Hulu)
Last week , Joy ’s birth female parent , Rita ( Sarah Gadon ) , showed up in Castle Rock and tried to kill Annie — but end up unexpectedly sprout herself after Joy injected her with depressant . In “ The parole , ” Annie ’s heroic to keep Joy out of problem , so she insists on take the fall , making up a storey about Rita being a random intruder who was killed in ego - defense . The fuzz are n’t corrupt it , so Annie and Joy get withdraw in . That ’s pretty much all we see of those two this week .
Instead , Castle Rock throw it back to 1619 . We ’ve long been have intimation that the townsfolk is prepping for a big 400th day of remembrance bash — Annie actually crash into some palm that had fallen into the road in instalment one , which is what get the car stroke that stranded her in town . We also learn Pop describe the town ’s other settlers as Satanists , rather than witches . But this workweek , we got a first - hired hand smell at French - speaking New Jerusalem , where the starving universe suddenly experiences a change in lot when the township leader ’s rebellious girl Amity Lambert ( a magnetized Mathilde Dehaye ) returns from exile , glow with dependable health and exclaiming she ’s met “ an Angel Falls . ” Maybe even a ravening Angel Falls , like the Western novel Annie ’s father expend his life attempt to polish off ?
It ’s for certain not a beneficent angel , because even though Jerusalem ’s Lot prospers , anyone who questions cordiality ’s prophecy ( including her own founder ) gets sunburn alive , tied to an upside - down cross for ripe quantity . By the time the angel declare that everyone in the village must ritualistically die — with the hope of being reborn in 400 years — everyone obey . We ’ve seen their dusty coffin lurking under Abdi ’s construction site , and we know that the Angel Falls ’s following have commence to return . Ace , who ’s possess by the former priest of Jerusalem ’s Lot , has selected Annie to serve as cordiality ’s ( his devotee ’s ) “ vessel”—a situation complicate by the fact that a ) she ’s in jail , and b ) the Master of Education she pops to rest more or less degree will likely interpose with the gooey body - barter turn .
Pop (Tim Robbins) makes a very unpleasant discovery.Photo: Dana Starbard (Hulu)
There ’s also the fact that c ) Annie is knotty as nails and probably wo n’t allow Ace get his hooks in her . ( We ’ve also find out what Joy is adequate to of when Mom ’s back into a corner . ) presumptively , that ’ll be next week ’s big bash , now that “ The Word ” has ripped the lid off a secret that season two of Castle Rock ’s been keeping for seven episodes .
Foreshadowing burst . If the gangly , hooded figure glimpse betimes in the episode — seem to a dire cordiality at the edge of Castle Lake , in a spot establishedin season oneas drudge zero for bad juju — doesn’t count familiar , perhaps Ace ’s visit to a sure empty but still intact sub - basement cadre in Shawshank , later find out by Pop ( in a very coolheaded “ Tim Robbins is back in Shawshank ! ” meta - consequence ) , will give it out . But Castle Rock does n’t make you infer .
After a statue of the angel is unveil at the end of the 400th day of remembrance parade , induce all in attendance ( except Pop , who looks away at the accurate right moment ) to freeze down in hypnotized veneration , we flash back to 1619 and we see the angel ’s face . It ’s the Kid — the malevolent enigma play by Bill Skarsgård in season one .
Abdi (Barkhad Abdi) has also figured out that something rotten’s going on in Castle Rock.Photo: Dana Starbard (Hulu)
Even if you figured he ’d finally turn up this time of year — a solid supposal , though the erstwhile Pennywise ’s participation was manifestly a closely - ward secret — there ’s still no distinguish what ’s amount next for Castle Rock , except that , to cite Pop , it ’s “ something bad . ” Something very bad . The Kid could n’t get last time of year ’s independent type to bend to his will , but clearly he had something much bigger in mind for the hereafter . And we ca n’t hold back to see what it is .
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