Castle Rock canceled by Hulu after two seasons

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

If you were still holding out hope for a third season of Hulu's Stephen King anthology series Castle Rock, then I'm sorry to tell you that Hulu has officially canceled the series. As it's been almost a year since the second season of Castle Rock concluded, this isn't exactly a surprise, and it's said that the choice was made quite some time ago.

Castle Rock combined "the mythological scale and intimate character storytelling of King’s best-loved works, weaving an epic saga of darkness and light, played out on a few square miles of Maine woodland." The first season of the series starred Andre Holland, Bill Skarsgard, Melanie Lynskey, Jane Levy, and Sissy Spacek and told the story of Henry Deaver (Holland), a death row attorney who returns home to Maine for the first time in years when a mysterious inmate (Skarsgard) at the local prison, Shawshank, specifically requests Henry as his lawyer. The second season starred Lizzy Caplan as Annie Wilkes, a budding psychopath who gets involved in a feud between warring clans when she gets waylaid in Castle Rock.

Although Castle Rock may be officially done, we haven't seen the last of Stephen King on the small-screen as J.J. Abrams is developing Overlook for HBO Max, a horror-thriller series which will be inspired by and feature iconic characters from Stephen King's "The Shining" as it "explores the untold, terrifying stories of the most famous haunted hotel in American fiction." There's also a new adaptation of The Stand slated to debut on CBS All Access on December 17, 2020.