Stephen King hails new Juno Temple sequence: ‘Never seen anything quite like it’

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Stephen King has effusively praised the fifth season of anthology crime sequence Fargo, with the legendary horror author saying he’s “never seen anything quite like it”.

The present, which aired its first season in 2014, was created by screenwriter Noah Hawley based mostly on the Coen Brothers’ 1996 movie of the identical identify.

The fifth season, which stars Juno Temple, Jon Hamm and Jennifer Jason Leigh, premiered on 21 November 2023 and concluded earlier this month.

Writing on X/Twitter, King wrote: “Who says peak TV is dead? This is amazing, offbeat, and riveting.

“Juno Temple and Jennifer Jason Leigh shine. Never seen anything quite like it.”

The season follows Temple’s character Dorothy “Dot” Lyon, a seemingly bizarre housewife from Scandia, Minnesota, whose previous comes again to hang-out her after she unintentionally involves the eye of the authorities when a center faculty board assembly goes horribly fallacious.

Leigh performs Lorraine Lyon, Dot’s rich and highly effective mother-in-law, whereas Hamm seems as Sheriff Roy Tillman, a corrupt sheriff from North Dakota. The solid additionally contains Stranger Things’ Joe Keery and New Girl’s Lamorne Morris.

King, often known as the King of Horror for work together with The Shining, It and Misery, has usually been outspoken about his popular culture opinions.

Last November, the 76-year-old creator stepped in to defend The Marvels from “very unpleasant” “fanboy hate”.

After the movie suffered the worst opening weekend in Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) historical past, that sad milestone was celebrated by web trolls.

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Addressing the critics on X/Twitter, King wrote: “I don’t go to MCU movies, don’t care for them, but I find this barely masked gloating over the low box office for The Marvels very unpleasant.

“Why gloat over failure?” he requested, suggesting that “some of the rejection of The Marvels may be adolescent fanboy hate”.

King additionally recommended sci-fi horror movie No One Will Save You as excellent Halloween viewing.

“Brilliant, daring, involving scary,” wrote King of the movie. “You have to go back over 60 years, to a Twilight Zone episode called ‘The Invaders’ to find anything remotely like it.”

The horror professional went on to name the film “truly unique”.

Released on Hulu final yr, No One Will Save You stars Kaitlyn Dever as Brynn, a younger recluse who finds solace inside the partitions of her childhood residence till one evening she is woke up by unusual noises from unearthly intruders.