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The Stephen King-based Castle Rock has got a quick pick up from Hulu for a second season.

However there’s no guarantee that any of the actors or characters from the first year will be back. “Each season is going to be its own self-contained story: beginning, middle and end,” showrunner Dustin Thomason told The Hollywood Reporter. “But I think that just as [Stephen King’s] books do, we want to surprise viewers with the ways in which the stories intersect. Just as the places the characters pop up in very unexpected ways throughout the books, that’s the kind of anthology that we would like to tell.

“One of the things about the King universe or multiverse is that some very strange things can happen when it comes to the ways that the stories unfold, and hopefully there’ll be surprises along the way in terms of how the anthology works in that way. It’s pretty delicious that Kathy Bates played both Dolores Claiborne and Annie Wilkes when you really think about that question in the movie adaptations. But I think that there’s something for us about being faithful to the way that Steve does it in the books, that almost feels like the anthology format has already been laid out for us.”