Dick Hallorann

And Eugene is like a proud father.

He's like, "Just when you needed it, you got your Ahab." So Leslie then explains who this guy is, and it turns out his name is Doc Halloran, which is named after The Shining, uh, Doc, which they call Danny, and after Dick Halloran, so they combine both the names.

And Doc is supposed to be doctor, so he's Dr. Halloran.

So Leslie explains that he's a psychiatrist, again, very much like Dr. Loomis, who visited him when he was little, and he always predicted that he would come back.

We cut to them alone, and they go into the diner where Kelly works.

And Taylor is like, "I just need to know." So they sit down at a table, and Kelly is their waitress, and she comes up to them, and then she goes away.

And behind her, they see that Doc Halloran is in the diner as well, and he sees them, and eventually he comes over and asks, "Why are you following this girl?" So of course, they deny that, and he says, "You know where he is." And they play dumb 'cause obviously he's talking about Leslie.

And Halloran is like, "He's not who you think he is.

They move when you aren't looking, like weeping angels or something.

They actively attack Jack, they physically wound Danny, and later they line up like a defensive perimeter to brutalize Dick Hallorann

And then when we move inside to the human ghosts, the divergence just continues

Oh, the ghosts

He dies of exposure, his face frozen in this grotesque, empty stare.

He becomes a permanent fixture of the hotel's icy exterior.

And also Dick Hallorann, the telepathic cook who travels thousands of miles through a blizzard to save them.

Oh, poor Hallorann.

[laughs]

Like, one of my favorite parts in this is, uh, the chef, Dick Hallorann, that character.

Rea- I just, I always get pumped up when he's coming back, and it's just such a fucking crazy scene-

[laughs]

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the, the It Welcome to Derry.

So apparently everyone is just saying that this guy is Dick Hallorann-

Do- don-

Hard pass.

Now on the tour they meet Chef Dick Hallorann and-

Yay

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In this, like, bit of exposition, Dick keeps s- circling back to Danny and keeps calling him Doc.

And Wendy kind of clocks that he's calling him that.

And as he keeps rattling on about food, that audio drifts away and we start seeing that Danny is just hearing Hallorann's voice in his head.

This is our first kind of inkling that's like, ah, so it's not just Danny- ... who has whatever these abilities might be.

Here's what I came up with.

You know that giant picture of a naked woman that's hanging over the bed in Dick Hallorann's room in The Shining?

[laughs]

That one might be more creepy than the blueprints-

'Cause it's both a naked woman that isn't your partner that's, you're bringing over.

Yeah.

And also, if they know cinematic history, they're like, "Why do you got Dick Hallorann's picture from The Shining?" Um, so that one might be worse.

I guess, maybe, I don't know if you got, like, a print of, of one of the pieces of art from-

like a definite reference to Cujo but then like The Shining I think is supposed to be part of this as well because the daughter is having these visions in her dreams like very clear visions like mom's gonna die I'm worried about daddy And I think if maybe her character or that point of view was stronger, we'd get a little more of that perspective but I also think that's just a Stephen King thing like he likes to have a bit of a ghost and then something else kind of supporting it almost or like hinting at it from a different perspective so we get this whole spooky you know fog of stuff

I think the book gets more into it too like having some more overt references to the shining I mean One thing I didn't even realize, but he's, you know, when, what is it, Pascal calls him Louis Dock, sort of like the way Dick Halloran calls Danny Torrance Dock.

Mm-hmm.

Yep.

Like, they are really working hard to set up a second season.

Uh, I also like the show that, uh, th- the show hints at Carrie being a part of the larger Stephen King universe, and it made me feel sad that all these shows are on different streaming services, because what I wouldn't give for a Carrie White and Dick Hallorann team-up.

I was like, "I needs to have it.

Find a way." But with these additional elements, does Carrie still even feel like Carrie? We've got X-Men, we've got Stephen King in here.