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The Dead Zone/Greg Stillson
| Greg Stillson | |
| The Dead Zone | |
| Actor | Sean Patrick Flanery |
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Basic Information
Character History
Appearing at the tail end of season one, Greg Stillson is one of the few characters carried over from the novel with his original intent and purpose, mainly to be Johnny's main villain.
Meeting Johnny as a young child selling Bibles door-to-door with his father, Greg Stillson's destiny is inexplicably intertwined with our fair psychic. A troubled life growing up with an overly strict and controlling father, Greg was consistently in trouble due to his smooth talking and womanizing ways. His childhood led him towards a life of politics with an emphasis on the darker, dirtier side.
With his election to the House of Representatives for Maine due to the help of the Reverend Gene Purdy's Faith Heritage Alliance, Greg began his path towards bringing about the Apocalypse. His interactions with Johnny are never good for either of them, and Greg and his staff soon realize that Johnny is to be (congenially) avoided at all costs.
Keeping with the show's steady theme of constant character development, Greg has changed over the years like Johnny. season one was one episode, but immediately showed that Greg was no angel. Season two helped us understand that while Greg wasn't evil, he was mean and capable of great feats of evil. Season three concerned Johnny's obsession about Greg, and showed him to be powerless in his drive to power and controlled by others as much as he controlled people. Season four was spent building to something big for Johnny and Greg with the introduction of a shadow group meant to control the world (or maybe bring about the apocalypse?), the key episode was the season finale in which Greg asks for Johnny's help in finding his missing fiancée and we find that Greg doesn't want to be evil or even consider himself to be such, but that he has the capacity to be a caring soul.
