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Ho Ho. So, how y'all was doing. I hope you're doing good.
I really do. Today we're going to be discussing see episode four of
season six titled Mazy Day. Oh yeah, I'll tell you what. I'm
not gonna lie. This episode. It surprised me a little bit, it
really did. It definitely surprised me a little bit. You see, I
thought this was going to be, you know, a precautionary tale about being
an actor and constantly being in the in the spotlight and having people following you
around like paparazzis, and you know, just how you've got to protect yourself
in a matter of speaking, you know, you know, mentally and whatnot.
I also thought this was going to be a precautionary tale about paparazzis,
you know, and the toll that it takes on them doing some of the
things that they do in order to get that perfect shot. But that's not
exactly what we got with this episode. I mean, granted all those things
were true, you know, because the episode Oh oh yeah. By the
way, before I go any further, spoiler alert, we are going to
be talking about the episode. So if you have not seen episode four of
season six Mazy Day, definitely head on over and check that out and then
come on back and listen to this episode. But let's assume that you have
already. So the episode begins with a gal by the name of Bo and
she is a paparazzi and she's sitting outside of a of a hotel and she
starts taking pictures of the the male couple that comes out, and one of
the uh, you know, one of the people, one of the guys
comes over to her and you know, knocks on the window and is trying
to get you know, she he he offers to buy the pictures from her,
you know, that's what that's what he offers to do, and you
know, and and she's like, oh crap, you know, you know,
because he he approaches the vehicle wiles she plugs it in, plugs the
memory card into her computer and is checking out the photographs int of which case
it's like, dude, no, that's that's not how you're going to do
this. You know, it's kind of like Kenny Rogers, you know,
with the gambler, know whing to hold and knowing the fold and know whing
to walk away, know when to run. You never count your money when
you're sitting on the table. And that's what she did. You know,
she was sitting there at the place where she was taking the pictures, checking
out the pictures, making sure that she got the shot that she wanted,
instead of you know, watching, paying attention to what was going on.
So anyway, he was able to approach her knocks on the window, offers
to buy the photographs for five hundred dollars, and you know, she takes
her keys out of her purse because they're not in the ignition. Another point
of why would you take your keys out if obviously you may need to take
you know, make a fast getaway or whatever. That seems kind of stupid
to me, But anyway, that's what she did. She you know,
she gets out of there and then she is selling the pictures to somebody and
you find out a little later that the guy whom she took the pictures of
the celebrity that she took the pictures of committed suicide, and so now she's
in crisis mode. You know, she didn't feel real good about that.
You know, it was definitely weighing heavy on her, and at that point,
it would be pretty easy to say that she was questioning her her career
choice. You know. Now, this is somebody whom we kind of find
out through the story, through the episode that she's been doing that for a
while. She has a lot of contacts. You know, this isn't the
it couldn't be her first time of having something happen like this, but at
any rate, she's she's having an existential crisis and she's in a situation where
she is, you know, the typical paparazzi scene. You know, a
celebrity gets out of a vehicle going up to wherever it is that they're going,
and they are surrounded by paparazzi and they're taking the pictures, they're taking
the shots. You got flashes going off everywhere. I mean, this,
holy crap. And you have one of the paparazzi that is, you know,
just taunting and just really being a jerk to this gal, to the
celebrity, whoever she is, and bo is watching this unfold you know,
and she doesn't like what she sees. She turns around, she walks away,
and she's done. She's she's out of the business. You know,
she's not doing it anymore. And then the scene goes to a celebrity in
a in the Czech Republic. We find out that she is an actress.
But she's in her hotel room and she she takes a little recreational fungus.
She she she uh, she pops the mushroom into her mouth, and she's
beginning to to trip, you know, she she's beginning to go down the
rabbit hole and she's going to find out you know, where you know,
the uh Matt hatter is and whatnot. But she's in her hotel room and
she's like, oh, I'm out of cigarettes. I'm not in a very
good headspace right now. And this this is after she you know, breaks
the glass and cuts her finger. But you know that's that's neither here nor
there. It doesn't really matter. But you know, she she's on her
way to go get cigarettes because she thinks the dry is a good idea when
you're taking some shrooms and you haven't come down off the high yet. And
so she's driving down the road. She goes into a tunnel. Next thing,
you know, bam, she she hits something. She hits something because
well she focuses on her finger and she's not focusing on driving. Precautionary tale,
could be anyway. She is distraught about this. You know, she
does not take this very well. She finds out that you will. She
goes back to her to her apartment or a hotel room wherever it is that
she's at. I think it's a hotel room. I'm assuming because she is
an actress in another country filming a movie. And you know, well it
cuts back to another point in the show. You got both and he she
gets contacted by another paparazzi and it's like, hey, you know this celebrity
maze day. She started acting very erratic on set. She was very moody.
She was having mood swings and she ended up getting kicked off the set
because of something I don't remember what. At this point, at any rate,
she's been mia for quite some time. Nobody knows where she is.
She's not at home, she's not at her any usual places that she would
be. Nobody has any idea where they're at. People are offering like thirty
thousand dollars for a picture of her more if she's messed up on drugs and
whatnot, makes her look even worse. She's like, I'm out of the
game, you know that, I'm not not doing that anymore. You know.
She still has her contacts, but she's not she's not a paparazzi anymore.
Well, she ends up doing a little bit of research into it,
and she's like, wow, she's like legit, like she fell off the
face of the earth. And she's intrigued, and so she calls up some
people, you know, gets in contact with her contacts. She's like,
what, you know, what's going on? What's all this about? She
she ends up tracking her down, you know, because she had read something
about her how she likes this particular type of food or you know these particular
Yeah, this particular food from a particular restaurant, and she ends up going
there to track her down, and then come to find out, she figures
out where she's staying, and you have her you know, Mazy Day now
is in you know, the the and we come to find out that it's
the home of a producer whatever doesn't matter, you know, and it's like
she's really having a rough time. I mean she's just emotionally just just done,
you know. I mean she is really really doing she's she's not doing
too good. I mean, let's just put it that way. She's just
being simple. She ain't doing too good, you know, and it's it's
understandable as to why. You know, she was in the Czech Republic.
She was on the job and she made a mistake and it costs somebody their
life because somebody died. We come to find out, you know, we
find that out during the episode. Somebody dies. She's not feeling you know,
she's feeling responsible, she's feeling guilty. She's not doing too good.
But as bo is sitting outside this producer's house trying to you know, get
the photo, trying to make sure that Mazie Day is there, you know,
the next morning after she gets there, that night, the uh oh,
the maid shows up to clean the apartment or the house, I guess,
and just the it's a wreck, you know, I mean it's a
wreck. She went on a rampage. It looks like, you know,
breaking all kinds of things, and it just it was bad. Somebody shows
up, Hey, I'm going to take care of you. We'll be all
right. I'm going to admit you into a rehabilitation center. And that's where
they end up taking her to a rehabilitation center. Bo follows her. They
get to a diner pretty close to where the rehabilitation center is, and you
know they she was following way too close. You know that she is just
not used to following people, because well, needless to say, she got
spotted, which I thought was kind of ridiculous, because you know, they
give you the sense like this is, you know, some they're traveling some
distance to get to where it is that they're going, and they almost make
it to their destination before you know the I guess it was the driver comes
out, walks over to Bow's vehicles and puts a screwdriver through all four of
retires like you're not following us any further. But it's like, dude,
I mean, come on, man, I mean, it's not like you
didn't know she was behind you. I mean she only had like, you
know, two or three cars following distance on a highway back road curvy thing.
It's like that you knew she was there. Why the heck didn't you
do this a long freaking time ago, you know, just just that's just
how I think whenever I'm watching stuff like this. I mean, I'm looking
at like that makes no sense, that's not what would actually end up happening.
Whatever. So anyway, she makes a phone call after she gets all
of her all of her wheels flattened, she calls up a friend. He
shows up. They take off to the rehabilitation center because they find out whenever
they were at well, she finds out whenever she was at the diner that
some celebrity bought the whole just rented the whole entire place for the weekend,
send all the staff home, everything else. So it's it's it's just this
celebrity. Don't know who it is, but obviously it's a celebrity with some
money because this is kind of a ritzy place that celebrities go to to,
you know, to clean up, to get off the drugs, to you
know, get get right. So they get to this rehabilitation center, some
other paparazzi show up because they put a tracking device on you know, the
h bo's friend that she calls to, you know, help her out.
And these guys are the quite essential paparazzi, you know, the ones that
will do anything, say anything. The the ones that just don't seem human,
you know, the ones that are just I'm not going to say monsters,
but I mean it's just they're not human, you know. And so
they break into the place. You know, they get they get over the
wall, they get into the interior, they you know, go to a
somebody's dog is barking, but they are, you know, they get into
the place, they you know, they get their marriage and they reach it
up through a fan, you know, an exhaust fan or whatever. You
know, I'm not even sure what the heck you'd call it. You know,
it's an exhaust fan, and you know, they see that, oh
well, this might be her. I mean, this is where she's at,
obviously because she's the only one here. But holy crap, there's chains
around her neck. She's chained down. She's a captive and bo you know,
who's going through this existential crisis, whom whom is really rethinking her choices
and everything else, And she's I need the savor. So she breaks into
the room to go in there and get her. And the whole entire time,
you have, you know, the two people that ended up showing up
the two paparazzis that put the tracking device on you know Bo's friend. Well,
they're just taking pictures the entire time she's breaking into the room. Whenever
they go in, the whole entire time, it's just flash after flash after
flash, Like, holy crap, people, you know, somebody's in needs
help. Bo was not allowing this to happen. And she's trying to free
Macy day. She's trying to free or trying to set her free, trying
to you know, help the situation, and you know, get her out
of there, get her out of harm's way. Well that's when the episode
takes a turn. And holy cow, because Macy's like, you guys need
to go. You guys need to need to get out of here. They
told me that I need to do this by myself alone, you know,
nobody else around me. And you know, in this excitement, I guess
you can say you see a goat pin and I'm like, what, why
is there a goat pen in her room with her chained up? That makes
absolutely no sense whatsoever. Why is there a goat pin in there with a
couple of goats? This is making this is crazy? Are you kidding me?
Holy cow? A goat pin. I'm like, what else are you
gonna throw in this room? Right? You know? I mean, what
kind of episode is this? I'm so confused. Something happens, macy Day
is in pain. Oh this is not what I thought it was. Come
to find out, Macy Day is a werewolf and she starts to turn because
it's a full moon. Oh crap. Bo And the person that she had
called is like, uh, we got to get out of here. We
gotta go now. Well, the other two, the the the paparazzi that
are that are taking pictures the entire time. They they apparently had a false
sense of security because well, macy Day still has the chain and the uh
you know, she she still chained up, she still bound. They apparently
had a false sense of security. It was definitely a false sense of security
because you know, the werewolf was apparently she was hungry and apparently she figured
that paparazzi were food. Boe and her friend. Well, the two paparazzis
ended up, you know, dying very grisomely. And you know, they
never stopped taking the pictures to getting the shot, you know, they they
never stopped, you know, they you know, right, right, up
until it was like, oh, holy crap, we gotta go. And
then one guy was pulling on the other guys like we got to get out
of here now, you know. But by then, you know, hey,
it was too late because the were wolf got him. Bo and her
friend are able to escape to the diner. The were wolf shows up,
killing everybody, and it ends where she ends up getting the gun of the
police officer because well, you know, he was already attacked. The friend
that had showed up had already been attacked, and then the werewolf does a
jumping leap toward Bo. Bo gets a lucky shot off and shoots the werewolf.
I guess it was a kill shot, I guess, but it didn't
kill her just yet, because the werewolf turned back into Mazie Day and you
can still see the you know, the collar around her neck from where she
was chained up, and and Mazie Day is just like, you know,
kill me, kill me, put me out of my misery, kill me.
Well, Bo does something that I wasn't really shocked to see. You
know, maybe it was poetic, I guess, she can say. But
she hands Mazie the gun and it's like, hey, you know, I
mean, no words come out, but it's a Hey, if you want
to die, you do it your own self. I'm not doing it for
you. I'm not killing you. If you want to die, here's the
gun. You do it. I'm not doing it. So Major grabs the
gun, she points it to her head and is going to pull the trigger.
And this is where bo kind of surprises me because she picks up the
camera that her buddy You'd given her and she puts it up to her eye
to take the picture of the final kill shot. Really, really that that's
what you're going to do. I mean I was like really, I mean,
don't get me wrong. Even with some of the staff woos that.
It's like, dude, no, come on, that's that's just kind of
ridiculous. You know. The episode was a it was a really good episode.
It was very well done. It kept you in the dark about what
was going on until the last minute. I mean, they didn't hint at
anything, you know, they didn't reveal anything to let you know what was
going on. It was a very good episode. I was I liked it.
I really did. I very much like it. So let's get on
with it. Let's go to the questions all right, let's go to the
questions, because I got a few, I mean not many, but you
know I got a few. Do you view this as a precautionary tale about
being a celebrity being constantly you know, have to constantly be on you know
what I mean, you know, never having that break from being in the
spotlight, never being able to be you always having to wear some kind of
a mask and be on your best behavior, so to speak, you know,
in order to appease you know, the paparazzi and you know, the
everybody, the magazines, the the the fluff piece writers and the fans that
follow it all having to appease everybody. I mean, do you view this
as a precautionary tale of being a celebrity? Do you view this as a
precautionary tale of being a paparazzi? And the toll that for a good person
with a conscience that you know, would never want that type of a that
type of a job. I mean, I mean if you had that being
a good, you know person not wanting to be intrusive, you know,
I mean, how would you be able to balance that between you know,
your personal and your professional you know, I mean how how could you even
compartmentalize something like that? I mean, would you be able to do that?
I mean, I don't, I don't. I don't think I could.
I really don't think I could. I don't think i'd be able to
do that. I think it would take a toll on me, and it
would just if I was able to stay in, and I think it would
change me. I don't think I would like the person I would change into,
you know. I mean, I just I m man, I wouldn't
be able to do that. I really just know. No, thank you,
no, thank you? Would you be able to do that? Let
me know, because now I'm kind of curious, you know, And in
that type of sittion situation where Bo has her existential crisis, she finally figures
out what's going on with Mazie Day, would you pick up the camera and
take that that picture? Would you have been able to do that? Because
no way I'd have been able to There's no way I'd have been able to
take that shot. You know, I'd have turned around and walked out of
there, just hands down, not even a question. There is no way
after everything that she had been through, after you know, even after getting
kind of drawn back into it. I mean, how hard did Bo work
to try to save Mazie just to find out that maze is aware Wolf and
holy crap, I gotta run for my life. I mean it's like,
holy cow. You look at what she did and what she just went through,
and and still she reverts back to being a paparazzi. What the heck?
Yeah, I don't know. What do you think? Did you like
the episode? Did? Did you not like the episode? Was a little
far fetched for you? You know, did did you? Did you like
it? I did it a really good job, you know, I liked
I liked the story. I liked the special effects, you know, the
whole thing. I liked that they you know, they did it right.
There was a few things that they definitely got wrong, you know, I
didn't. I didn't like a few aspects of it, but all in all,
it was a really good episode. What'd you think? Let me know
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