WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.480 --> 00:00:06.879 Dark Destinations may be end Times Night's Preacher. 2 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:09.919 Why would a few more casually struggle. 3 00:00:09.519 --> 00:00:13.000 Me because of their blood? Will join yours a radio 4 00:00:13.119 --> 00:00:14.320 drama anthology. 5 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:17.839 You are wrong how you figure Every mark on Mongo 6 00:00:17.960 --> 00:00:18.600 is hunting. 7 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:21.199 You down, not you, your partner, he said, I didn't 8 00:00:21.239 --> 00:00:21.879 have a ray gun. 9 00:00:22.120 --> 00:00:27.039 Full cast performances set in the haunted corners of the globe. 10 00:00:27.399 --> 00:00:29.480 Darkness is coming for you. 11 00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:31.960 That's the fear that taunts me. 12 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:41.439 Dark Destinations by fatherm Alone at Weirdingwaymedia dot. 13 00:00:41.119 --> 00:02:47.439 Com weird We. 14 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:50.680 Welcome back to Midnight Viewing, the horror anthology podcast, where 15 00:01:50.719 --> 00:01:53.040 this season we're taking a look at George A. Romero's 16 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:56.359 nineteen eighties series Tales from the Dark Side, Sharing the 17 00:01:56.400 --> 00:01:59.959 Midnight view with me are the culture Cast Chris Statue. 18 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:02.239 Prefer to go by Pete, Have you Seen My Dragon? 19 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:05.400 And joining us al as always is the projection boost 20 00:02:05.439 --> 00:02:09.560 Mike White. We're taking a look at two episodes from 21 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:12.439 season two. They are A New Lease on Life and 22 00:02:12.599 --> 00:02:16.479 Printer's Devil. A New Lease on Life season two, episode fifteen. 23 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:19.800 It originally aired on January the twenty sixth, nineteen eighty five. 24 00:02:20.159 --> 00:02:24.800 Written by Harvey Jacobs and Michael McDowell, Harvey Jacobs See Again. 25 00:02:25.080 --> 00:02:27.960 This one is based on a story by Adam K. Jenkins. 26 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:30.800 This one is directed by John Steer Sick and stars 27 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:34.919 Mary Windsor, Robert Morothman, Ben Frank and Robert Sutton. This 28 00:02:35.039 --> 00:02:37.159 is a story about a man who has a new 29 00:02:37.240 --> 00:02:39.639 lise on live as he moves into an apartment building 30 00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:42.879 that is that's alive. What did you think about this one, Chris. 31 00:02:42.759 --> 00:02:44.560 I didn't think the building was going to be a 32 00:02:44.680 --> 00:02:48.400 drect but it is. Boy, what a weird conceit for 33 00:02:48.479 --> 00:02:49.759 an episode of this show. 34 00:02:49.919 --> 00:02:50.520 Huh. 35 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:54.120 It's pretty obvious pretty early on what's going on, like, 36 00:02:54.159 --> 00:02:56.080 don't touch the walls, and then the one guy goes 37 00:02:56.120 --> 00:02:58.159 the radiation, gets into the walls and doesn't get out. 38 00:02:58.199 --> 00:03:00.840 It's like, look are you talking? And so epitstill kind 39 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:03.280 of plays its hand a little too early. I like 40 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:06.199 the idea. I actually think it's pretty interesting. Think you 41 00:03:06.199 --> 00:03:09.400 could actually take this idea and expound upon it, even 42 00:03:09.439 --> 00:03:11.960 make something more of it, because here it feels I 43 00:03:11.960 --> 00:03:13.960 don't know. Look, it's a twenty three minute episode of 44 00:03:14.120 --> 00:03:16.240 Tales with the dark Side, so they're making the most 45 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:19.039 of what they have. I will say the Michael McDowell 46 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:21.080 of it all feels like why the guy's getting fed 47 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:23.400 into the monster at the end of the episode. I 48 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:25.800 don't think Harvey Jacobs went that far, given what we've 49 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:29.199 seen of his work it previously. I think it was 50 00:03:29.319 --> 00:03:31.280 a lot more fun than it had any right to be. 51 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:35.280 And twenty three minutes went by pretty fast. And maybe 52 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:37.439 this is comparative to the last two things we watched, 53 00:03:37.479 --> 00:03:41.120 which were really not great, so this is this is 54 00:03:41.240 --> 00:03:42.919 a little bit better than either of those. But I 55 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:46.120 enjoyed it well enough. I mean, it's it just telegraphs 56 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:48.639 where it's going way too ever, But you, Mike. 57 00:03:48.639 --> 00:03:51.639 I that whole telegraph too early. I think if we 58 00:03:51.759 --> 00:03:54.599 got a little bit more of his struggle and the 59 00:03:54.639 --> 00:03:57.800 whole idea of just how awful it it is to 60 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:01.319 and that probably would have required at the one montage 61 00:04:01.479 --> 00:04:05.639 one knocking on doors, looking around at apartments, seeing the 62 00:04:05.759 --> 00:04:09.400 price tag, circling ads in the paper type of thing, 63 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:11.639 going out and doing them and really making it so 64 00:04:11.719 --> 00:04:13.680 that he's desperate to find it, and he finds this 65 00:04:13.800 --> 00:04:17.199 amazing place, super low money in a month, he would 66 00:04:17.240 --> 00:04:20.720 be entirely grateful, and maybe he should be more grateful 67 00:04:20.879 --> 00:04:24.160 and then certain weird stuff that having the two guys 68 00:04:24.199 --> 00:04:26.360 at the drag in their back or the maintenance they are, 69 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:30.000 that's interesting. They're like a little comedy. Seeing Marie Windsor, 70 00:04:30.319 --> 00:04:33.199 I so she probably one of my favitals. She just 71 00:04:33.279 --> 00:04:36.319 had that crazy catwoman type of look. And I don't 72 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:39.399 mean like Tamala Harris catwoman, just the eyes and everything 73 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:41.680 always had that of exotic or and I just would 74 00:04:41.720 --> 00:04:44.800 pick up and chew on little Mike Elijah Cook Junior 75 00:04:44.839 --> 00:04:46.439 and just spin him out again. I thought she was 76 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:48.959 great at that. She doesn't really get a whole lot 77 00:04:49.160 --> 00:04:51.920 of chance that kind of thing in here, but she 78 00:04:52.040 --> 00:04:55.040 does really get to shine and I heard that. So yeah, 79 00:04:55.040 --> 00:04:57.480 I thought it was pretty close to being a good episode, 80 00:04:57.680 --> 00:05:01.000 just it could have gone a little bit farther too. Point. Yeah, 81 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:02.920 there's twenty three minutes, but I think they could have 82 00:05:03.399 --> 00:05:06.279 spaced it out a little bit differently, plotted this for 83 00:05:06.399 --> 00:05:07.040 a little bit more. 84 00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:09.279 Mike, are you telling me you didn't understand why they 85 00:05:09.319 --> 00:05:11.839 just set it in the hotel and the room from 86 00:05:11.839 --> 00:05:14.560 that smoke detector episode so they could reuse the set 87 00:05:14.839 --> 00:05:16.680 and just put a little panel on the wall. It's 88 00:05:16.759 --> 00:05:19.319 cheaper that it's like, the cheapest episode of the show 89 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:20.720 is what it feels like. I feel like we've been 90 00:05:20.759 --> 00:05:22.759 on this set before multiples. 91 00:05:22.839 --> 00:05:25.319 Yeah, and we can't even make any marks on the world. 92 00:05:25.879 --> 00:05:27.360 They need it again by the end of the week. 93 00:05:27.519 --> 00:05:28.839 How about you, fatherlive, At. 94 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:31.360 What point do you just sign that things are just 95 00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:32.439 more than weird? 96 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:34.639 When the nails pushing itself out of the wall? Was 97 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:37.439 that not moment enough for you? I would have left 98 00:05:37.519 --> 00:05:40.000 right then and there. I'm like, I'm out of here before. 99 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:43.279 You allow yourself to be roped into two year leaves. 100 00:05:43.480 --> 00:05:45.920 I assume he saw the apartment more, but it does 101 00:05:45.959 --> 00:05:48.319 not seem that way because he's coming in for the 102 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:51.240 first time and he's already signed the two year lease, 103 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:53.839 which I understand at two hundred dollars. But did he 104 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:56.519 not read the lease? Okay, let's back up. I just 105 00:05:56.519 --> 00:05:58.959 want to say, because one thousand percent mic, all they 106 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:02.839 needed to do was show disheveled guy viewing a shitty 107 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:05.240 apartment and it's out of his price range. He goes 108 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:07.560 back to his car. It's clear he's been living in 109 00:06:07.600 --> 00:06:10.000 his car and reads in the paper two hundred dollars 110 00:06:10.040 --> 00:06:13.439 a month and off where we go and don't have 111 00:06:13.560 --> 00:06:16.920 the maintenance men be so fucking freaky's up front and 112 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:20.319 have all this weird bullshit like just right in his face. 113 00:06:20.759 --> 00:06:23.319 There might as well be a sign saying don't live here. 114 00:06:23.600 --> 00:06:26.480 From the way everyone is acting. And this guy is no, 115 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:30.600 he's no piece of work either. This is a man 116 00:06:30.759 --> 00:06:33.560 who says the words I had my mother had a 117 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:37.199 special condicil in her will, leaving me that microwave of 118 00:06:37.319 --> 00:06:40.680 and at that point that is like. 119 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:43.800 That's what was it? Like crazy as a soup sandwich. 120 00:06:43.879 --> 00:06:46.600 That's like that type of like I was expecting when 121 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:48.839 he says the coddasle about the micro wor is this 122 00:06:48.920 --> 00:06:50.839 a Harlan Ellison episode? 123 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:54.439 It's something I like his name Archie Fenton. Folks, Again, 124 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:56.920 if it's not giving away that this episode has no 125 00:06:57.000 --> 00:06:58.759 idea in a lot of ways, it has no idea 126 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:01.439 what it's doing with the character. It has a great setup, 127 00:07:01.720 --> 00:07:05.639 but the characters are not well thought out, especially our 128 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:08.360 main character who is an idiot, like he should have 129 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:10.160 just left the moment he put a hole in the 130 00:07:10.199 --> 00:07:13.199 wall and the nail came out, blood started shooting out 131 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:15.480 of the wall. Break your lease and leave. That's what 132 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:18.160 I'd be doing, not being eaten by the building. 133 00:07:18.279 --> 00:07:21.120 Okay, let's say you've put a nail on the wall 134 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:24.639 and it's been ejected and icker has dripped out of it, 135 00:07:24.680 --> 00:07:27.839 and when the maintenance come, they're using hydrogen peroxide to 136 00:07:27.959 --> 00:07:30.600 close the wound that they're calling it, and then the 137 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:33.639 wound disappears, and you're still like, you know what, it's 138 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:36.959 two hundred dollars a month. I'm okay with this amount 139 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:41.439 of weirdness. But when your neighbor is screaming no, as 140 00:07:41.519 --> 00:07:44.160 they're saying you're being evicted, and as you step into 141 00:07:44.160 --> 00:07:46.000 the hall where you can see the impression of someone 142 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:48.480 being dragged away into the darkness, and then one of 143 00:07:48.480 --> 00:07:51.319 the maintenance men gets in your face and says it's 144 00:07:51.399 --> 00:07:54.800 all a dream, and then the building begins to shake. 145 00:07:55.160 --> 00:07:56.560 Then you leave anything. 146 00:07:56.720 --> 00:07:59.480 Five hundred and seventy five dollars, father Malone, that's how 147 00:07:59.560 --> 00:08:01.360 much it is in today's money. That's how much two 148 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:02.360 hundred dollars a month. 149 00:08:02.480 --> 00:08:06.160 Okay, but we're assuming we're in a big city, right, 150 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:10.040 I'm assuming that was New York or LA. But pretty 151 00:08:10.040 --> 00:08:13.639 good digs close to everything for Ritzier area for five 152 00:08:13.639 --> 00:08:17.079 mins that apartment, I don't know. I would walk out 153 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:18.759 as soon as I saw the panel in the wall 154 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:19.360 with the camera. 155 00:08:19.519 --> 00:08:21.839 Yeah, rubbed the rubbed the panel. 156 00:08:23.040 --> 00:08:26.959 The panel. Yes, worse than the maintenance men. Is this 157 00:08:27.079 --> 00:08:29.839 homo erotic? Touched the flesh of the. 158 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:33.759 It's not homo erotic. You're petting an animal. It's fucking weird, 159 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:36.080 is what it is. This whole episode is weird, But 160 00:08:36.120 --> 00:08:38.320 I like the conceit of it. I like the conceit 161 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:41.360 of it because it genuinely this could be like it. 162 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:43.919 I don't know if y'all have seen Monster House kind 163 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:45.960 of like that in a way, but not as good 164 00:08:46.279 --> 00:08:49.480 and not nearly as well thought out or well written 165 00:08:49.759 --> 00:08:51.720 or even it's just the same idea that, like the 166 00:08:51.759 --> 00:08:54.279 house is sentient, into the building is sentient. I think 167 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:56.080 you could really build this out into something a lot 168 00:08:56.120 --> 00:08:58.799 more interesting, kind of an actual idea. 169 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:01.399 Speaking of that, Chris. A year or two after this 170 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:04.879 episode aired, if You Went Too the it floated around 171 00:09:04.919 --> 00:09:07.960 in the magazine, but a Fangoria magazine had a feature 172 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:12.039 called the Terror Teletype, which they would broadcast from the 173 00:09:12.120 --> 00:09:14.919 trades what horror movies were in production, and one that 174 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:18.799 was listed for several years was a film called Apartment 175 00:09:18.919 --> 00:09:23.279 Living to be directed by George Romero about a man 176 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:26.120 who moves into an apartment building that is a lie, 177 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:29.639 which I assumed was inspired this episode, say I, and 178 00:09:29.840 --> 00:09:33.320 for years I dreamed that that movie would be released. 179 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:36.159 That script's probably out there somewhere, even if it was 180 00:09:36.200 --> 00:09:38.879 not inspired by this episode. It is a potent idea, 181 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:41.799 and somebody out there tried it, and why haven't we 182 00:09:41.879 --> 00:09:42.720 gone further with it? 183 00:09:42.840 --> 00:09:44.600 I think you could do it right now in the 184 00:09:44.639 --> 00:09:47.159 current climate of things, and it would be even more 185 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:49.799 of a man Can you imagine given how fucked up 186 00:09:49.840 --> 00:09:52.840 the housing market is right now and how expensive everything 187 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:55.720 is to be, Like just think two hundred dollars a 188 00:09:55.759 --> 00:09:58.600 month right now, two hundred dollars a month to live 189 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:00.679 in a building like that were. Yeah, there's just some 190 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:03.399 weird ass shit going on, But I wager that anybody 191 00:10:03.440 --> 00:10:05.519 listening to this show might be living in digs that 192 00:10:05.559 --> 00:10:07.600 are equally as weird and are paying more than and 193 00:10:07.639 --> 00:10:10.759 their building's not going to eat them. Everywhere anyone lives 194 00:10:10.759 --> 00:10:13.519 has its weird idiosyncrasies. I just don't think that most 195 00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:17.120 places people live spe I'm just not most people's places 196 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:19.679 that they live aren't inside of an animal or inside 197 00:10:19.679 --> 00:10:22.320 of a giant dragon, apparently a literal dragon. 198 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:25.200 I do electricity? How the water works? 199 00:10:25.600 --> 00:10:25.799 Way? 200 00:10:26.120 --> 00:10:29.039 Well, it's it's it's like sake, It's not even water. 201 00:10:29.279 --> 00:10:31.960 Sake comes out of the goddamn spigot. What does that 202 00:10:32.039 --> 00:10:35.200 make sense? Is the dragon magical as well? 203 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:38.039 It would have to be in order to form the 204 00:10:38.120 --> 00:10:40.159 shape of an apartment building? 205 00:10:40.320 --> 00:10:42.200 Yeah, how does that even happen? 206 00:10:42.440 --> 00:10:44.200 I think the effects guy must have had a ball 207 00:10:44.279 --> 00:10:47.039 here that the practical effects guy with lights exploding and 208 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:50.840 faucets spraying and radiators blowing flames. 209 00:10:51.320 --> 00:10:53.080 And I guess the other thing I don't understand is 210 00:10:53.080 --> 00:10:55.360 how do these people come to work for the building? 211 00:10:55.600 --> 00:10:57.200 That's the real question, right. 212 00:10:57.320 --> 00:11:02.159 Where's the communication between Mary and the dragon? Maybe who 213 00:11:02.159 --> 00:11:05.559 knows telepathy? She dreams it a stage hand comes on 214 00:11:05.679 --> 00:11:08.000 and pulls the dragon and her into the dream and 215 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:09.919 that they can have a conversation. What I want to 216 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:13.200 know is is they're a gaping ma room on every 217 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:15.480 floor or do some floors have to come down to 218 00:11:15.519 --> 00:11:16.519 the gaping ma room. 219 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:18.720 It's like the ice yeah, oh no, at a hotel 220 00:11:19.159 --> 00:11:22.240 ice machines on three and seven for the ice machine 221 00:11:22.840 --> 00:11:25.399 or the vending machine. It's on three or seven, three 222 00:11:25.480 --> 00:11:27.639 or seven? Sorry you don't have ice on your enough 223 00:11:27.639 --> 00:11:30.240 money for ice machine on each lease prices? Yeah, it's 224 00:11:30.360 --> 00:11:33.399 I would assume only one floor has the gaping mad 225 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:35.039 Does the dragon have multiple mouths? 226 00:11:35.240 --> 00:11:37.240 Could be, as it happened. 227 00:11:36.840 --> 00:11:40.000 That mouth leaves something to be desired to quote the Bible? 228 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:42.039 What that mouth? Do we find out? A pop? 229 00:11:42.360 --> 00:11:45.200 I thought it was sufficiently creepy. I know that I'm 230 00:11:45.240 --> 00:11:48.519 reviewing this movie as a fifty one year old human being, 231 00:11:48.559 --> 00:11:51.320 but when I saw this episode, I was twelve, and 232 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:53.159 it scared the shit out of me, and it worked 233 00:11:53.200 --> 00:11:57.559 like magic, because this is like a cartoon Rosemary's Baby. Basically, 234 00:11:57.679 --> 00:12:00.639 everyone's so odd and like you should would notice it 235 00:12:00.679 --> 00:12:02.320 from the get go, but as a child, they had 236 00:12:02.320 --> 00:12:05.279 no frame of reference other than oh, it's just weird people, 237 00:12:05.320 --> 00:12:07.440 I guess, and then oh, no, there's a mouth. 238 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:09.879 And is this one woman cooking all this food all 239 00:12:09.879 --> 00:12:11.679 the time. You're telling me other people who live there 240 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:13.960 aren't also feeding the dragon? Why does she have to 241 00:12:13.960 --> 00:12:14.679 cook so much? 242 00:12:14.799 --> 00:12:18.759 She has to she loves the dragon. Okay, that's extras 243 00:12:19.279 --> 00:12:22.159 treats for the dragon. She knows the dragon wants a turkey. 244 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:25.159 Not everyone is giving their organic garbage in turkey form 245 00:12:25.480 --> 00:12:26.480 the apps. 246 00:12:26.720 --> 00:12:29.960 Are they living inside the dragon then, yes. 247 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:32.679 Yeah, it's like that scene in the Empire Strikes Back 248 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:36.639 when he shoots the floor and will play shakes and 249 00:12:36.679 --> 00:12:38.120 he finally realizes they're inside of her. 250 00:12:38.320 --> 00:12:42.480 Yeah, the space work right, with a nice interior decoration 251 00:12:42.600 --> 00:12:43.279 though exactly. 252 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:47.279 Yeah, yeah, it was a monstro the whale from Pinocchio. 253 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:50.000 Yeah, yeah, Geppetto had a good setup in there. 254 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:53.080 I thought, yeah, exactly, listen to TV. I think I 255 00:12:53.120 --> 00:12:54.799 had that it'd be fine. And with this place you 256 00:12:54.840 --> 00:12:57.399 could because of probably the dragon conducts electric. 257 00:12:57.559 --> 00:12:59.840 Yeah, and don't Rady eat the dragon. I like how 258 00:12:59.840 --> 00:13:04.240 we're stuck on the improprieties of the episode not explaining 259 00:13:04.320 --> 00:13:05.879 the dragon logic enough. 260 00:13:06.559 --> 00:13:08.360 I liked it and I just went with it. I 261 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:10.039 was like, eh, all right, yeah. 262 00:13:09.879 --> 00:13:13.360 It makes no because it makes no fucking sense, and 263 00:13:13.440 --> 00:13:16.480 the episode just goes the building is a dragon, moving on. 264 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:20.840 It's okay, all right, fine, you just in this universe 265 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:23.200 a building can be a dragon, and that's clearly what's 266 00:13:23.240 --> 00:13:24.600 going on. There's no question. 267 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:28.159 You mentioned at the top the name of the building 268 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:31.519 is the Saint George, the Slayer of Dragons. Ironically named. 269 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:33.320 But I would also like to mention that when I 270 00:13:33.399 --> 00:13:35.519 was seventeen years old, I lived in a building called 271 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:39.240 the Saint George on Revere Beach. Revere messages. It's a 272 00:13:39.240 --> 00:13:42.080 little weird to here years later that that thing that 273 00:13:42.120 --> 00:13:44.000 freaked me out so much was shared the name of 274 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:45.279 a place I would eventually live in. 275 00:13:45.559 --> 00:13:48.159 But when you ate chicken legs in that place, did 276 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:49.320 the building shake? No? 277 00:13:49.480 --> 00:13:52.679 It didn't. But what's weird in remembering is that every 278 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:55.360 floor did have the trash compact or bin that you 279 00:13:55.399 --> 00:13:58.639 would throw stuff down into. And I forever, every time 280 00:13:58.639 --> 00:14:02.360 I threw something down, thought org garbage. Dragon's coming, all right, 281 00:14:02.600 --> 00:14:06.120 all our next episode is Printer's Devil. This is season two, 282 00:14:06.200 --> 00:14:10.399 episode sixteen. It aired originally on February the second, nineteen 283 00:14:10.480 --> 00:14:13.320 eighty six. Written by John Harrison from a short story 284 00:14:13.360 --> 00:14:17.200 by Robert Dulart, This one also was directed by John Harrison, 285 00:14:17.399 --> 00:14:22.399 starring Larry Minetti, Charles Knapp, Kate Charleston, and Catherine battisone 286 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:23.759 somebody describe it. 287 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:27.600 A desperate, frustrated writer and a tour is convinced by 288 00:14:27.600 --> 00:14:31.919 a shady, oversized produced animal sacrifice that becomes successful things 289 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:32.279 don't go. 290 00:14:32.519 --> 00:14:33.399 Now what'd you think of it? 291 00:14:33.799 --> 00:14:34.159 Now? 292 00:14:34.679 --> 00:14:38.440 Junior is the main character and Alex. It's Alex that's 293 00:14:38.519 --> 00:14:43.320 the producer, right or the guy who's wanting the animal sacrifices. Yes, okay, 294 00:14:43.399 --> 00:14:47.879 because I really like that actor Alex Kellaway character Charles Knapp, 295 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:52.679 love his voice, loves physicality. Wasn't he in? He was 296 00:14:52.679 --> 00:14:54.360 also in Tweet? But I want to say that he 297 00:14:54.840 --> 00:14:56.120 re quickly proxy. 298 00:14:56.200 --> 00:14:57.039 Yeah, if he. 299 00:14:57.080 --> 00:14:59.679 Wasn't in how Soccer Proxy? But it looks like he wasn't. 300 00:15:00.200 --> 00:15:04.080 Like he stopped at one died in me five, probably 301 00:15:04.200 --> 00:15:07.080 because of that bolting around. But my god, I love 302 00:15:07.159 --> 00:15:09.480 him and I love him voice. Did I like this episode? 303 00:15:09.679 --> 00:15:09.840 No? 304 00:15:09.879 --> 00:15:12.320 Not real. This is another one of those you're caught 305 00:15:12.440 --> 00:15:15.879 by a contract. You don't know if I to follow 306 00:15:15.960 --> 00:15:18.159 it or if I get out of it. I don't know. 307 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:21.600 I just was like it needed more to it is 308 00:15:21.639 --> 00:15:24.519 what I felt like. Again, to quote Chris, this felt 309 00:15:24.559 --> 00:15:25.480 like a Blackout skit? 310 00:15:25.799 --> 00:15:28.440 Chris? Would you think master of Blackout Sketches? 311 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:29.200 Oh? 312 00:15:29.399 --> 00:15:32.279 I think John Harrison should stick to producing because he 313 00:15:32.320 --> 00:15:34.879 produced those two New Dune movies. I'm kidding, I joke. 314 00:15:35.039 --> 00:15:37.639 This is not his best work he has done a 315 00:15:37.639 --> 00:15:40.600 lot of great things, obviously, but this is not one 316 00:15:40.639 --> 00:15:42.480 of them. It's actually weird to be that he produced 317 00:15:42.480 --> 00:15:44.159 the two he was one of the EPs on the 318 00:15:44.279 --> 00:15:46.600 two most recent Dude movies. I know he directed the 319 00:15:46.600 --> 00:15:49.799 two thousands mini series, but to be involved with those 320 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:51.679 movies I thought was surprising when I when I looked 321 00:15:51.679 --> 00:15:55.759 into that. But look, I think ultimately something like this 322 00:15:56.440 --> 00:15:59.320 kind of episode of the show, I don't know. I 323 00:15:59.360 --> 00:16:02.600 think we've had this weird issue this season where some 324 00:16:02.679 --> 00:16:05.200 of the episodes have felt like other shows, and I 325 00:16:05.240 --> 00:16:07.519 think that this is another one of them, and this 326 00:16:07.679 --> 00:16:09.799 just feels like a Twilight Zone eighty five thing, and 327 00:16:09.799 --> 00:16:12.200 it's a retread of things, like Mike said, a retread 328 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:15.679 of things we've seen before. And maybe if we had 329 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:19.519 not been watching all of these shows like this, it 330 00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:22.559 wouldn't be a criticism we could level against an episode 331 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:24.799 like this, because I don't think this episode's bad per se. 332 00:16:24.840 --> 00:16:27.919 I actually think this episode well shot, well acted. I 333 00:16:27.960 --> 00:16:29.759 think the twist at the end you see it coming 334 00:16:29.799 --> 00:16:33.279 from a mile away more or less. But I think 335 00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:36.159 the issue is because we've been watching all these anthology 336 00:16:36.399 --> 00:16:38.519 and we've been watching them, I mean, Father Malone you 337 00:16:38.559 --> 00:16:40.759 and I have been watching anthology shows together essentially since 338 00:16:40.799 --> 00:16:42.000 you and I met in. 339 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:44.440 Like seven years. 340 00:16:44.759 --> 00:16:47.720 We are, yeah, like it's a lot, and we've watched 341 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:50.120 a lot of anthology stuff in seven If we've watched 342 00:16:50.159 --> 00:16:52.639 anything more than anything else has been anthology stuff. And 343 00:16:52.679 --> 00:16:55.200 so I'm just used to the tricks at this point. 344 00:16:55.279 --> 00:16:57.320 I'm used to the things that they do and the 345 00:16:57.360 --> 00:16:59.360 directions that they go, and the kinds of stories that 346 00:16:59.399 --> 00:17:02.799 they tell. And this is yet another similar Like Mike said, 347 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:05.519 guy makes a bad deal and has to stick to it. 348 00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:07.920 We've seen that it's just a printer this time as 349 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:11.759 opposed to the devil or the devil or the devil. 350 00:17:11.759 --> 00:17:13.079 I mean a lot of the times it's been the 351 00:17:13.079 --> 00:17:15.359 devil or like a demon, and this time around, I 352 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:19.359 guess this guy is probably devil adjacent. He's doing animal sacrifices, 353 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:21.559 but I don't know. I enjoyed it, but it did 354 00:17:21.559 --> 00:17:24.880 feel a little rote because again, just the we've been 355 00:17:24.920 --> 00:17:27.559 watching anthologies for so long. What about you bother? 356 00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:31.839 I fucking loved this episode. I thought you can instantly 357 00:17:31.920 --> 00:17:36.440 see John Harrison as a filmmaker and not a television director. Honestly, 358 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:39.480 in comparison to the previous three episodes we watched, which 359 00:17:39.519 --> 00:17:44.920 felt very, very threadbare. Hey, let's put on a show. Yeah, 360 00:17:45.039 --> 00:17:48.079 this it felt that it was lit correctly. It was 361 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:50.240 you could though there were shot choices going on, and 362 00:17:50.279 --> 00:17:53.400 he was trying to tell a story. I recently have 363 00:17:53.599 --> 00:17:57.400 come around to the I guess I've always been appreciative 364 00:17:57.440 --> 00:18:00.960 of a prick of a protagonist, particularly on an anthology show, 365 00:18:01.319 --> 00:18:04.480 because Larry Minetti here is he really is a no 366 00:18:04.599 --> 00:18:08.359 talent attack. His big dream project is called Into the Void. 367 00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:12.559 It's about a young man's incestuous relationship with his sister 368 00:18:13.039 --> 00:18:16.440 and how he was abandoned by his alcoholic I guess 369 00:18:16.440 --> 00:18:19.799 they were both abandoned by their alcoholic father. Oh, and 370 00:18:19.839 --> 00:18:22.000 his best friend is murdered. That sounds like a real 371 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:25.240 fun read. Nobody ever wanted to read that, and he 372 00:18:25.359 --> 00:18:26.880 was never going to get that published, and that was 373 00:18:26.920 --> 00:18:28.720 the only book he had in him because he was 374 00:18:28.759 --> 00:18:31.519 being mister Ortiz. Meeting the Devil is the best thing 375 00:18:31.559 --> 00:18:33.880 that could have happened. So I love how fucking cynical 376 00:18:33.960 --> 00:18:37.720 that one. And guys, here's something that I made me 377 00:18:37.880 --> 00:18:41.039 enjoy the episode because of my misunderstand a little bit 378 00:18:41.039 --> 00:18:44.079 more than y'all. When he gives him that first animal 379 00:18:44.119 --> 00:18:47.799 to tank home, I somehow did not put it together 380 00:18:48.200 --> 00:18:50.640 that he was going to have to sacrifice the animal. 381 00:18:50.799 --> 00:18:53.480 And as the animals were accumulating in his house, as 382 00:18:53.480 --> 00:18:56.759 he was gaining more and more success, and his now 383 00:18:57.200 --> 00:18:59.839 new wife, who is attracted to him because of his success, 384 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:02.279 spell that this man is casting on him. As soon 385 00:19:02.359 --> 00:19:04.960 as we get to there's a young lion running around 386 00:19:04.960 --> 00:19:08.759 the house, and now a bear comes trundling in, and 387 00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:10.920 she's like, I can't take this, and she runs out. 388 00:19:10.920 --> 00:19:13.000 And I thought, this guy just gets to sit around 389 00:19:13.000 --> 00:19:15.480 this house and write all day. With all these animals, 390 00:19:15.640 --> 00:19:18.599 this looks like heaven. And then and then then I realized, oh, 391 00:19:18.599 --> 00:19:21.480 he has to kill all of these wonderful little critters again. 392 00:19:21.720 --> 00:19:22.839 And I don't know. 393 00:19:23.279 --> 00:19:27.160 Somehow my mistake delighted me more about the episode because 394 00:19:27.559 --> 00:19:29.720 it is just an okay episode. Yes, we have seen 395 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:33.319 this one million thousand I did. I didn't necessarily see 396 00:19:33.319 --> 00:19:36.720 the twist coming. So when he says, yeah, well, stakes 397 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:38.240 are gonna have to be a little higher this time, 398 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:40.440 I was like, oh shit, I forgot how much I 399 00:19:40.480 --> 00:19:42.880 love telling from the Dark sign Because Twilight's on eighty 400 00:19:42.920 --> 00:19:45.119 five wasn't going to do that. Night Gallery wasn't even 401 00:19:45.119 --> 00:19:45.720