Podcasts by The Dark Multiverse of Stephen King
Deep dives into the books, movies, TV adaptations of ALL those damn Stephen King books.
Further podcasts by Brad Munson & Cat Bently-Scheick
Podcast on the topic TV und Film
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Episode 40 - Thanksgiving 2019 from 2019-11-27T05:37
Happy Thanksgiving! It's a small celebration of Food and Stephen King, in his stories -- from It to Thinner, from The Briar Rose Cafe in Cutter's Mill to Mi...
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Episode 38 - Doctor Sleep from 2019-11-13T06:13
Cat and Brad saw Mike Flanagan's amazing interpretation of the sequel to The Shining, and BOY do they have some things to say. It's a spoilerific exploration of another amazin...
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Episode 37 - Castle Rock, Season 2 from 2019-10-30T15:38
It's finallyl here! A brand new season of Castle Rock on Hulu, and Cat and Brad take to her bed and watch the first two episodes! It's all about a young Annie Wilkes (still crazy before all thes...
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Episode 36 - Graveyard Shift from 2019-10-22T04:55
One of King's early short stories from almost fifty years ago became a really pretty lousy movie about thirty years ... and here we are talking about Graveyard Shift, as well ...
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Episode 35 - In the Tall Grass from 2019-10-08T01:59
The Stephen King/Joe Hill novella was just released as a Netflix feature ... and in this ep, we stagger into the original story, then watch the new movie and go deep into the green with that wei...
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Mini-Episode 34.5: If It Bleeds, The Institute, Castle Rock Ruins Tour & More! from 2019-10-05T06:06
Up-to-date rumors and pointless innuendo about If It Bleeds, King's next book, and The Institute, King's last book, and a w...
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Episode 34 - Creepshow TV! from 2019-10-01T05:16:30
The newly revived Creepshow series has finally premiered on Shudder ... and first up is an adaptation of Stephen King's "Gray Matter," where bad beer FINALLY takes over the world. That, pl...
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Episode 33 - Night Shift from 2019-09-24T21:36
It's kind of amazing: this 40-year-old collection of short stories has generated literally dozens of movies, and in this special "storytelling episode," we talk a bit about all those that have a...
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Mini-Episode 32.5: Creepshow's a'comin', A Familiar Name for Randall Flagg, In The Tall Grass & Castle Rock Have New Trailers ... and IT 3?? from 2019-09-21T04:09
A little bit about a whole lot of things in this short, solo Mini-Episode. Creepshow is abut to premiere on Netflix ... there's a very recognizable name who's been chosen to p...
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Episode 32 - IT: The Novel from 2019-09-16T22:25
All the multiversal tie-ins, all the untold stories, all the drama and terror that didn't makeit into either adaptation of IT ... right here! We tell the stories still hiding in the original nov...
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Mini-Episode 31.5: Castle Rock Season 2, Joe Hill, Stephen Colbert, Patton Oswalt from 2019-09-14T04:44
We talk a lot about Joe Hill and all the books, TV shows, movies, and comic books -- yes, comic books! -- he has in the works, not to mention a new trailer for Castle Rock, Season 2, more on The...
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Chapter 31 - It: Chapter Two from 2019-09-10T14:29:24
We saw it last Wednesday, we saw it on Friday, and now we've got plenty to say. Is it a faithful adaptation? More important is it a good movie? How does it stack up to Chapter 1 and to the...
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Episode 30 - IT: Chapter One from 2019-09-07T16:30
Late but worth the wait: our exploration (and we admit it: celebration) of IT: Chapter One, as the first part of our three-episode ITstravaganza. Amazing acting from a perfect...
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Mini-Episode 30.5 - More ITStravaganza, King in Rolling Stone, and a weird and wonderful choice to play Holly Gibney in THE OUTSIDER from 2019-09-07T01:22
The dates, times, and secret passwords (no really) for our ongoing ITstravaganza, some great quotes from a new interview with King in Rolling Stone (his first!), and some weir...
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Mini-Episode 29.5 - ITstravaganza, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, and Flying Pennywises from 2019-08-31T05:35
Cat is trapped (temporarily, we hope) in the Derry Museum of Arts and Crafts (and you get to hear the ad we produce for them a while back), and we have news about yet ANOTHER new movie based on ...
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Episode 29 - 1408 from 2019-08-27T00:13
It started as an incomplete sample in King's nonfiction book On Writing, then "seduced" him into completing it, turning it into a complex and harrowing short story in
Mini-Episode 28.5` from 2019-08-24T04:07
Returning graphic novels from the maters, hidden King mini-series you have to go searching for, yet ANOTHER King novel being made into a TV series and more. It's the newest Mini-Episode with all...
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Episode 28 - The Stand, Part 2 (The TV Mini-Series) from 2019-08-19T21:40
The Stand was published forty years ago, in 1978. It took fifteen years, 'til 1993, to see a filmed version of king post-apocalyptic battle between Good and Evil, Tech and Magic, R...
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Episode 27.5 - Lisey's Story, IT, and the mysterious Fig Bandit revealed! from 2019-08-16T20:54
Did YOU know that Apple has commissioned a mini-series based on Lisey's Story and starring a major-league actress? We didn't ... until now. Or that Stephen King himself has wr...
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Episode 27 - The Stand, Part 1 (Mostly the Book) from 2019-08-12T19:36
Way back in 1978 -- yeah, more than 40 years ago, Stephen King published his post-apocalyptic horror epic The Stand, still probably one of his best-loved and best-remembered books. So h...
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Mini-Episode 26.5 - Creepshow, Corrckshuns, Carrier, Tigers and more! from 2019-08-09T19:23
We got into depth about the upcoming Creepshow series on Shudder, including cast, writers, and directors. (Looks very cool!), and confess to our many (most recent) errors all ...
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Episode 26 - The Dark Half from 2019-08-05T16:04
Secret Window, Secret Garden was King's psychological thriller about The Author as Other -- how the "writer" guy is an evil second personality. The Dark Half is ...
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Mini-Episode 25.5 - Castle Rock Season 2, The Long Walk, and ... an ad? from 2019-08-02T15:01
First in a (hopefully) endless series of Friday Mini-Episodes, all about King and King-related news. This time around: updates on the casting and plot for Castle Rock Season 2...
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Episode 25 - Secret Garden, Secret Window from 2019-07-29T17:35
One of King's many, MANY stories about writers and how crazy they really are first appeared as a novella in Four Past Midnight, and a few years later as a movie written by Dav...
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Mini-Episode 1 from 2019-07-22T17:01
We're back, and more beautiful than ever! Our first full episode will magicalliy appear on Monday, July 29 ... but until then, here's a quick mini-episode with some Stephen King news and some se...
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