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We have seen the face of evil. It belongs to Henry Deaver. Kind of.
stone castleThe finale of the first season – "Novels" – is a story of two Henry. There is "our Henry", interpreted by André Holland: a besieged lawyer haunted by his unexplained disappearance of teenager. And there is "alt-Henry", aka L & # 39; child, Bill Skarsgård's man from a parallel reality sank into the wrong dimension or … well, something old and bad.
In the hour after hour, the show slowly constituted the mysterious threat of the Kid. Then came the big change – last week's alternative reality episode – and suddenly we have a perfectly persuasive, convincing, cross-dimensional story. Admittedly, the question of the veracity of this story has remained debatable. But if all that was going to be a whim, then wow: mission accomplished.
Which brings us to the final. Sometimes, Alt-Henry seems to be a deeply hurt but articulate man, just trying to convince people like our Henry to help him get home. He continues to display an intimate knowledge of what their common life is, that is, that their father had the intention of killing their mother if she did not go to school. was not running away with Alan in alternative reality or he had not pushed him out of this cliff. a. He even knows the chapter and the verse (Romans 6:23, hence the title of the finale) that the mad preacher cited to justify his planned homicide.
On other occasions, however, he meets as something really demonic. He talks Warden PorterDeath – she is overthrown by a bus carrying detainees from her own prison – thrusting her nuts with one of her small soap figurines. He seems to be telepathically directing the brutal jailbreak that allows him and his counterpart to escape the cell where they were both locked up, leading to total slaughter and Dawn of the dead-Departing style of explosions and violence in the vicinity. In the end, alt-Henry fired a gun at our Henry to force him back into the woods, apparently hoping to return to his own timeline. He is just desperate. You would not be
But as the two men parade into the snow, alt-Henry looks a lot like the abusive father of the other, who has followed his son into the woods while promising that he would not hurt him. (That sounds a lot like the lies that old Jack Torrance, mad, spat during his rampage The brilliant, is not it? In the flashbacks, we see young Henry backtracking through his own snowy tracks to throw his father on the track, an even more obvious homage to Kubrick / King's masterpiece.) So, our Henry is remember to push Pops off a cliff Mom, he's fed up with his counterpart. A fight ensues. The tables are turned. The lawyer points the weapon at his former client. Alt-Henry looks up – and he screams like a mummy exhumed from a sarcophagus. This is the biggest jump of the team. Then: Cut to black.
"A year later": Henry went from defending death row inmates to litigation over neighbors' property boundaries. He has a nice relationship with his son Wendell, who comes to visit Christmas. His mother is dead and is buried next to Alan. His old friend and lover Molly lives in the Florida Keys, where she often visits her incredibly scary but seemingly benign grandmother. And Alt-Henry is once again a prisoner in the bowels of Shawshank's abandoned penitentiary. As the episode unfolds at this revelation, a Henry 1.0 voiceover suggests that perhaps the residents of Castle Rock were all monsters, including himself. All the signs of an open end are there.
But the truth is closed as hard as al-Henry's prison cell. That skips? Freeze-frame and you will see your eyes will not play tricks – it's horrible horror, and not, let's say, what it would look like if the twenty-seven years he was in captivity had suddenly caught up with him . He would have had to look more like one hundred and twenty-seven.
Even more convincing – literally, since it's the conclusion of all history – Alt-Henry smiles in the dark after Original Deaver leaves him behind. You do not make Bill "Pennywise" smile Skarsgård unless you want to announce that HEIL is strong enough to wake the dead.
What puzzles us: what exactly was the purpose?
It's not only that you can find alternative reality dramas with more attractive horror hues Lost at Twin peaks at Leftovers. It's not even the end so raw The brilliant (and the non-king country, The babadook) that you feel already seen. That's it stone castle undermined his own great twist – the introduction of the whole concept of the parallel world and the idea that the Kid could be a hero rather than a monster – almost immediately after its introduction.
As a drama, the series featured clever and unobtrusive performances from Holland, Skarsgård, Spacek, Melanie Lynskey, Scott Glenn and more. As Stephen King's riff, he understood and updated his concept of American daily evil better than any adaptation of his work in recent memory. But as a horror story, the series made promises, but it did everything to avoid delivering in the end. A finale that seemed destined for black magic was only a bait and a change. The show has been renewed and a new tale will be told. Let's hope our next visit to this awful Maine town will live up to its potential.
Previously: The child stays in the picture
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