{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdont-encourage-us.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fdr-sleep-ENWTNxj6","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Doctor Sleep: How Do You Write A Sequel To Incompatible Versions of The Shining?","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/ed574ad1-a2e9-4817-b068-309fba6885cb/c2e7f563-aa0a-4d54-85b7-b8ec2aed90d0/art6.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"Doctor Sleep has an impossible job: be a sequel to Stanley Kubrick's The Shining and Stephen King's novel simultaneously — two versions that disagree on whether the hotel survives, whether Dick Halloran lives, and how much the Shining itself matters. The film solves this by giving Dan his father's novel ending — self-sacrifice by destroying the hotel — which honors King while working within Kubrick's continuity. With guest Doug Tidwell, we trace the mythology across all three versions (including the forgotten 1997 ABC miniseries where Rebecca De Mornay outacts everyone), work through whether steam, shine, and soul are the same thing, and land on why the True Knot is starving: modern life has dulled humanity's collective spirit, and pain purifies steam because it's the exact opposite of numbing yourself with a phone. Plus: \"the hotel shines too\" — a line from the miniseries that's absent from Kubrick's film but explains everything about Doctor Sleep."}