Annie Wilkes, the crazed nurse/superfan from Stephen Kings Misery, brings a fresh kind of terror to a sleepy Maine town in the new teaser trailer for Season Two of Castle Rock, which premieres October 23rd on Hulu.
Like the first season of the anthology series, Season Two incorporates elements and characters from various King books, but the new trailer primarily focuses on Wilkes, played by Lizzy Caplan. The clip opens with Wilkes and her daughter (Elsie Fisher) getting waylaid in Castle Rock, Maine after a car accident, but as Wilkes tries to recover, her sanity starts to deteriorate and her daughter begins to suspect her mothers not who she seems to be.
Wilkes arrival in Castle Rock also adds fuel to a tension threatening to engulf the town and neighboring communities. Season Twos other main narrative thread will center around Reginald Pop Merrill (Tim Robbins, returning to the King universe for the first time since 1994s The Shawshank Redemption), the crime family patriarch from The Sun Dog, whos dying of cancer and preparing to hand off the family business to his nephew, John Ace Merrill (Paul Sparks). Ace, however, is keen to disrupt a long-standing peace with neighboring Jerusalems lot, where Dr. Nadia Omar (Yusra Warsama) faces a supernatural test at her rural hospital as her brother, Abdi (Barkhad Abdi) takes charge of opening a Somali community center.