‘Castle Rock’: Here’s What That Ultra-Creepy Ending Means

Last moments of Season 1 are open to interpretation, but they also recontextualize everything we’ve learned through the last 10 episodes

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(Note: This post contains spoilers for the finale episode of “Castle Rock.”)

The final moments of the first season of “Castle Rock” wrapped up most of the plotlines of the show, but it also ended with a whole lot of ambiguity.

In last week’s episode, the Kid (Bill Skarsgard) explained his own identity and where he came from to Molly (Melanie Lynskey). The Kid claimed he was the child of Ruth (Sissy Spacek) and Matthew Deaver (Adam Rothenberg) from another, parallel reality — and that he’d been trapped in this world by Shawshank State Penitentiary Warden Lacy (Terry O’Quinn) for more than 15 years.

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