King Me: Castle Rock- 'Habeus Corpus'

Another week and a chance for the Show to pick up the pace.  Will this one improve things?  Let's see...

We begin with some narration from the late-Warden.  It's all about how much the titular City seems to take out of people, highlighting people committing suicide there- including his Brother.

The Cast is expanded as we see the people in the Church once run by our Hero's Dad.

As a bonus, here's some name-dropping...

Glenn's Cop meets up with the new Warden and tells her not to let the mysterious Prisoner free, implying that he is pure evil or something like that.

Speaking of him, his seeming-escape in the last Episode was not exactly what it seemed.  He moves to a new Cell, sharing it with a White Supremacist nicknamed 'Adolf.'

No, stop.  Don't kill him.  I'd totally be upset if you did...

Our Hero needs 'an act of God' to get into the Prison now.  Can he make it happen and meet his mysterious Client?  Is that a good thing?

To find out (some of that), watch the Episode.

A step-up, but not a big one.  The first Episode was all about introducing the Characters and mysteries.  It did a fine job at that- it just took too long.  So much could have been trimmed sped up there.  In this case, it doesn't start out the best in that department, as the opening doesn't move the narrative forward.  It's a bit like the 'Coming to America' Intros to all of the American Gods Episodes.  If we get consistent Themes like that, this kind of thing is fine.  Once we're past that, we get some more interesting stuff, interweaving Characters, situation and even working in some flashbacks.  It's clear why more people have questions about Mr. Deaver, even if he is certain of himself.  We still don't get a lot of answers, but the stuff we get is interesting.  What is the seemingly-dark secret of the Prisoner?  It would be funny if he was Pennywise, but I know that's not true.  I want to like this Show more and I'm certainly going to stick things out, but I just need something.  Luke Cage thinks that you may be taking things too slow.  Even so, they do work in this nice reference to Stand by Me...

Next time, some big things happened.  Will this be the case next time as well?  See you then...