WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.639 --> 00:01:02.520 Way wait a sad. 2 00:01:04.879 --> 00:01:08.719 Welcome back to Midnight Viewing, the Horror Anthology podcast, where 3 00:01:08.760 --> 00:01:11.040 this season we're taking a look at George A. Romero's 4 00:01:11.159 --> 00:01:14.599 nineteen eighties series Tales from the Dark Side. Sharing the 5 00:01:14.599 --> 00:01:18.640 Midnight view with me are the Projection Boost Mike White, I. 6 00:01:18.439 --> 00:01:22.239 Am very lazy and that will cost me a lot. 7 00:01:22.040 --> 00:01:25.840 Of money true, and the Culture Cast Chris Nashu. 8 00:01:26.439 --> 00:01:28.280 I don't know about the Bitterest Pill, but I have 9 00:01:28.359 --> 00:01:29.879 heard of a jagged little pill. 10 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:32.920 Tonight we are taking a look at two episodes from 11 00:01:32.959 --> 00:01:37.200 season three. Those are The Bitterest Pill and Florence Bravo. 12 00:01:37.239 --> 00:01:40.920 The Bitterest Pill is season three episode number three, originally 13 00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:44.000 aired on October the twelfth, nineteen eighty six. This was 14 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:47.400 written by Michael Cube of McDowell and Julie Selbo, based 15 00:01:47.439 --> 00:01:50.439 on a short story by Frederick Pohle, and directed by 16 00:01:50.480 --> 00:01:54.680 Brian Michael Stoller. This one stars Mark Blankfield at Joe Carraffalo, 17 00:01:54.840 --> 00:01:59.120 Catherine Benison, and a Jason Horst as Jonathan. It's about 18 00:01:59.120 --> 00:02:01.640 a mad chemist and former flame who reappears in the 19 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:04.799 lives of a couple who've recently won the lottery with 20 00:02:04.959 --> 00:02:08.599 a promise of not just fortune but world domination. It 21 00:02:08.759 --> 00:02:11.039 is a bit convoluted. What did you think of it, Mike? 22 00:02:12.439 --> 00:02:21.360 A bit, a bit? Ah, Yeah, I really like Mark Blankfield. 23 00:02:21.639 --> 00:02:24.199 I kind of grew up with him in different things. 24 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:27.159 I was just recently watching what was the one he 25 00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:30.719 did Frankenstein General Hospitalers. 26 00:02:31.599 --> 00:02:31.879 Yeah. 27 00:02:31.919 --> 00:02:35.080 Oh it's terrible. It's absolutely terrible, And I'm just like, 28 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:37.439 how did they make comedies like this in the past? 29 00:02:37.479 --> 00:02:40.759 And just know they had to know they were dogs, right? 30 00:02:41.159 --> 00:02:43.960 Yeah? And what a weird bookend to young doctors in 31 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:47.479 love at the beginning of the decade they gain well. 32 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:50.360 And then Jacquel and hide together again in there as well. 33 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:54.400 So yeah, gosh. Yeah, he's a very special taste. He's 34 00:02:54.439 --> 00:02:58.680 completely unhinged in this episode, which is absolutely fine. I 35 00:02:58.719 --> 00:03:01.039 really like Frederick Pohl, and I think I'd like to 36 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:04.400 go back and track down the original short story. I 37 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:07.360 will admit that when I first started watching this episode, 38 00:03:07.400 --> 00:03:11.080 I thought the father was Dan casting A Letta Homer Simpson, 39 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:14.240 and I thought the mom for a hot second was 40 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:18.000 Adrian Barbo. Her profile looked almost exactly like that, and 41 00:03:18.080 --> 00:03:20.400 I was like, Oh, I am in for treat. Oh 42 00:03:20.439 --> 00:03:23.719 this is going to be great. Yeah, not to offend 43 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:26.680 the actors, but the caliber that they are is pretty 44 00:03:26.719 --> 00:03:30.280 much the caliber of the episode. And that shit eating kid, 45 00:03:30.439 --> 00:03:33.319 I just I didn't get it, the whole thing of Okay, 46 00:03:33.479 --> 00:03:36.719 we won the lottery. First, I thought that was going 47 00:03:36.759 --> 00:03:38.879 to be a dream or seat of something, just because 48 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:41.800 of the way how odd it is. And then they 49 00:03:41.840 --> 00:03:43.639 get into things and I'm like, no, I guess that 50 00:03:43.759 --> 00:03:45.759 was a real thing. I guess they're so rich they 51 00:03:45.800 --> 00:03:49.039 need a bodyguard. Now I live in some big estate, 52 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:52.319 but yeah, and then this dude shows up and just 53 00:03:52.360 --> 00:03:55.879 starts acting crazy, and the longeraise on screen, the crazier 54 00:03:55.919 --> 00:04:01.159 he gets, and I wasn't here for it. Wasn't able 55 00:04:01.159 --> 00:04:03.520 to connect with this episode, Chris, Were you able to 56 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:04.560 connect with the episode? 57 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:08.120 Oh God, I wish somebody would have connected with a 58 00:04:08.199 --> 00:04:10.319 right hook to my fucking temple so I didn't have 59 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:11.520 to watch this episode. 60 00:04:11.719 --> 00:04:12.520 Good lord. 61 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:19.040 The acting place Tinker was just Oh the way William 62 00:04:19.079 --> 00:04:22.879 Hickey was chewing scenery in the last episode we talked about. 63 00:04:22.920 --> 00:04:25.120 In the last two episodes we talked about, this was 64 00:04:25.240 --> 00:04:29.720 just insanity bullshit, Like, just what the fuck was it? 65 00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:30.639 Father Malone? Was it? 66 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:32.279 No? It was I guess the three of us, we 67 00:04:32.279 --> 00:04:36.160 were talking about that weird episode one of these anthology 68 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:38.160 shows where they were like in a studio and all 69 00:04:38.199 --> 00:04:42.079 of a sudden, the noises started existing in the studio 70 00:04:42.120 --> 00:04:44.199 and like aliens showed up and shit. 71 00:04:45.480 --> 00:04:48.639 That was a Yeah, it was an old radio drama 72 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:51.040 going on and there was a curse on the theater 73 00:04:51.399 --> 00:04:53.839 and everything they described appeared. 74 00:04:54.480 --> 00:04:56.680 Yeah, it reminded me of that where all of a sudden, 75 00:04:56.720 --> 00:04:59.560 the guys just in the house. He starts making noises 76 00:04:59.639 --> 00:05:04.040 and dreaming and just I don't find you know what 77 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:07.240 I get that. There's the idea at the center of 78 00:05:07.319 --> 00:05:10.000 this is, Oh, they have this kooky friend who has 79 00:05:10.079 --> 00:05:12.759 this whole opportunity that they could take advantage of, and 80 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:14.720 if they don't, they're gonna miss out on an opportunity. 81 00:05:14.759 --> 00:05:16.879 And then it turns out that the kid eats it 82 00:05:16.920 --> 00:05:20.360 and haha, the kid's super smart. Now, why is the 83 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:23.600 whole payoff of this fucking episode like two minutes long? 84 00:05:24.120 --> 00:05:24.319 Well? 85 00:05:24.439 --> 00:05:25.680 Is that so strange? 86 00:05:26.079 --> 00:05:29.000 Is that the kid seems to be punishing the parents 87 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:30.560 and keeping the prison there. 88 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:33.000 Yeah, because they kept him prisoner. That was the one 89 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:35.759 thing I was like, Okay, I get this part. I 90 00:05:35.879 --> 00:05:38.240 understood what they were getting at, only in as much 91 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:41.040 as like they were leaving him locked in his room, 92 00:05:41.160 --> 00:05:42.879 and so at the end of the episode he's like, well, 93 00:05:42.920 --> 00:05:47.959 I'm gonna lock you in your room and it's okay, sure, 94 00:05:48.519 --> 00:05:51.120 but that seems illak and I don't know if you 95 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:55.079 could do that me personally. Isn't this limitless? Do you 96 00:05:55.120 --> 00:05:56.839 guys ever see that movie with Bradley Cooper. 97 00:05:56.879 --> 00:05:57.480 Isn't it just this? 98 00:05:58.040 --> 00:06:00.079 No? But I saw the TV series that was based. 99 00:05:59.879 --> 00:06:00.319 On on it. 100 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:02.000 Okay, but the same thing. 101 00:06:02.079 --> 00:06:04.759 Right, No, you're totally right, You're you're absolutely right. As 102 00:06:04.759 --> 00:06:08.519 far as the power that unlocks this, the kid now 103 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:10.000 seems very very rich. 104 00:06:10.560 --> 00:06:12.519 Yeah, well, he's an asshole, but. 105 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:16.959 He cannot afford any sort of cover art for his book. 106 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:19.759 Come, thank you for pointing that out. That is like 107 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:22.759 that looks like he's being held hostage. It looks like 108 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:24.079 a ransom note. 109 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:25.720 So terrible. 110 00:06:26.680 --> 00:06:29.439 Yeah, production, I'm selling New York Times book with the 111 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:30.040 bitterest pill. 112 00:06:30.079 --> 00:06:30.920 I'm not with that cover. 113 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:34.480 It's not no, no, he bought up your copy. That's 114 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:35.519 what was happening. 115 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:40.360 Oh, okay, that's yeah. I've heard about that happening before. 116 00:06:42.839 --> 00:06:47.680 My goodness, the bitterest pill. You know, halfway down my notes, 117 00:06:47.720 --> 00:06:51.959 halfway through the episode, I did write, Mark Blankfield is 118 00:06:51.959 --> 00:06:57.120 an acquired taste. I'm on your side with that, Mike. 119 00:06:57.240 --> 00:07:00.839 I remember him being in everything when we were kids, 120 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:03.560 like you couldn't turn around and not stamp not only 121 00:07:03.560 --> 00:07:05.920 the ones we mentioned, but like the Incredible Shrinking Woman. 122 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:08.639 I thought he was fucking hlarious in that. You mentioned 123 00:07:08.680 --> 00:07:11.199 Jekyl and Hide Together again. There's a moment in that 124 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:13.959 film where he's supposed to be doing a like an 125 00:07:14.120 --> 00:07:17.279 organ transplant and he turns into mister Hyde and he 126 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:20.680 looks at the tray of oregons and he goes, oh, buds, 127 00:07:20.920 --> 00:07:24.120 which just lives in my brain. So Mark Blankfield, I 128 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:28.079 tried looking him up more than just his credits, because 129 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:32.639 I also remember him from Fridays and ABC's attempt at 130 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:35.720 Saturday Night Live. He was one of the cast on that, 131 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:36.439 but like. 132 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:38.920 Back when, wasn't Michael Richards on that as well? 133 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:41.680 Sure was, and Larry David was one of the writers 134 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:41.879 at that. 135 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:44.519 Oh fuck yeah. I think I actually watch a lot 136 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:47.839 of episodes of that. I don't know why, because nothing 137 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:51.040 sticks with me. It's like there are bits from SNL 138 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:53.800 from the same period of time that I can still quote. 139 00:07:54.079 --> 00:07:56.319 But Fridays, I just nothing's there. 140 00:07:56.279 --> 00:08:01.199 Firmat because there were no reruns of Friday, so be composable. 141 00:08:01.279 --> 00:08:04.079 But all the SNL stuff got repackaged and reshown to 142 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:06.519 us over and over again. Yeah, I wish I could 143 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:09.240 have found out more about him. I've always really liked 144 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:11.759 him as a performer, and he's doing his thing here. 145 00:08:11.920 --> 00:08:14.000 I know, Chris, it's a bit much. It is a 146 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:18.720 bit all Jim Carrey or some sort of French comedian. 147 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:20.800 Jim Carrey, Hey, buddy. 148 00:08:20.600 --> 00:08:21.319 Pretty similar. 149 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:24.680 Oh wait, if Jim Carrey, if there was no redeeming 150 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:27.560 value to Jim Carrey, I. 151 00:08:27.560 --> 00:08:29.480 Think Jim Carrey would have done the same shit in here, 152 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:31.199 not that none of it. Also would have been funny 153 00:08:31.240 --> 00:08:35.120 because the episode is not agreed episode. They're not supposed 154 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:37.399 to be doing comedy here on tell Us the dark Side. 155 00:08:37.559 --> 00:08:40.360 What's making me laugh on this show is the fact 156 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:42.720 that the sister is going to drown the little girl 157 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:46.960 like they did in the previous episode. That's the funny this. 158 00:08:47.519 --> 00:08:50.159 As bad as the episode is, though, it does echo 159 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:55.759 the themes I've noticed have emerged on the show every season. 160 00:08:55.960 --> 00:08:58.759 We're going to get a few episodes where they begin 161 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:03.120 with a chaoic home environment. The show definitely seems hell 162 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:08.600 bent on putting a hammer to the fifties nuclear family idea, 163 00:09:08.679 --> 00:09:11.879 more than any anthology show we've seen, including Twilight Zone, 164 00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:17.000 which was running concurrently with this. Also emasculation, there's a 165 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:20.840 whole lot of emasculation on this show. Like here, It 166 00:09:21.320 --> 00:09:24.000 isn't just this crazy chemist from their past show. So 167 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:26.440 he's the guy who tried to steal his wife away 168 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:29.200 on the night of their marriage. Oh yeah, you're dynamic 169 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:30.679 to throw in all of a sudden. 170 00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:33.159 Was a really smart guy. 171 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:36.240 Though, smacks or ass and stuff. When she's crawling across him, 172 00:09:36.240 --> 00:09:37.840 I'm like, oh okay. 173 00:09:38.279 --> 00:09:41.000 And by the way she is crawling across him, I'm like, 174 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:43.519 look out, fair hubby. 175 00:09:44.440 --> 00:09:47.759 Yeah, with that guy. Nobody's very redeemable in this. But 176 00:09:47.799 --> 00:09:49.519 I think the husband's the worst character. 177 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:52.960 He is a Johnny bag of donuts. He's just a 178 00:09:53.120 --> 00:09:58.360 stretched out, weird, shouty sort of a guy. But the ending, 179 00:09:58.600 --> 00:10:03.240 I love the ending. I wanted to have gotten there. 180 00:10:03.279 --> 00:10:05.919 I wanted to have earned that. I wanted that kid 181 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:09.200 to have been treated poorly and was getting a revenge 182 00:10:09.320 --> 00:10:13.200 on them, or it just came out of nowhere and 183 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:17.080 he's now lording over them and Darkseide can be just 184 00:10:17.159 --> 00:10:19.559 fine with a with an out of the blue. Now 185 00:10:19.600 --> 00:10:21.919 you're all fucked ending as far as I'm concerned. But 186 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:25.840 they were going for a comeuppance here and locking your 187 00:10:25.919 --> 00:10:29.000 kid in his room for an hour while there's a 188 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:32.440 lunatic downstairs. It's probably not the worst thing. Ever. I 189 00:10:32.440 --> 00:10:35.320 imagine that kid had plenty of toys while they were wealthy. 190 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:36.759 Why did they stay in that house? 191 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:40.759 Yeah, no, good question. 192 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:46.399 They stayed any two bedroom bungalow and Pasadena. What they 193 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:49.159 were millionaires? They won the lottery in the opening? What? 194 00:10:49.240 --> 00:10:51.519 This is a fucking weird episode. I wish they had 195 00:10:51.519 --> 00:10:55.440 pulled it out, honestly, because I'm into how chaotic it 196 00:10:55.519 --> 00:10:58.120 is and how firing in every direction it goes. It 197 00:10:58.240 --> 00:10:59.399 just can't pull it together. 198 00:11:02.639 --> 00:11:03.600 No, it's too much. 199 00:11:03.639 --> 00:11:05.879 I think it's just too much, too much all at once, 200 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:07.759 and they don't do enough to get it there. And 201 00:11:07.799 --> 00:11:11.240 then the ending just I'm so disappointed because the ending. 202 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:14.840 I like the idea, but it logistically makes no fucking sense. 203 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:19.000 No, they're saying that the kid is so fucking brilliant. 204 00:11:19.080 --> 00:11:21.159 Now because he took the pills instead of the father, 205 00:11:21.480 --> 00:11:23.879 then he's figured out a legal loophole to become his 206 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:27.240 parents' guardians. We're just supposed to believe that he's the 207 00:11:27.279 --> 00:11:31.480 smartest thing on earth now, and like he'll he whatever 208 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:33.879 he wants, he's going to get. That's what Blackfield kid 209 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:36.080 yelling about. It's not even about the money, it's the power. 210 00:11:36.120 --> 00:11:37.600 You're going to have real power with this. 211 00:11:38.279 --> 00:11:41.320 Right, and wish that half the episode had been the 212 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:44.279 kid after he takes the pill, and right, like, all right, 213 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:47.080 what's his machinations? How does he do this? I solve this. 214 00:11:47.320 --> 00:11:49.919 I'm gonna like, maybe be a real piece of shit. 215 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:54.159 Like I note that most millionaires and billionaires really are 216 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:57.480 very very nice people that want to help out people. 217 00:11:57.639 --> 00:12:01.039 They donate almost all of their money to worthy causes 218 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:04.440 and things. I really want to. I want billionaires to 219 00:12:04.679 --> 00:12:07.879 like me because I like them so much. But the 220 00:12:07.960 --> 00:12:10.200 thing is, show me, show me what a piece of 221 00:12:10.200 --> 00:12:12.679 shit this kid is. He's like, oh, I discovered the 222 00:12:12.679 --> 00:12:16.080 cure for cancer, but the pharmaceutical companies are paying me 223 00:12:16.200 --> 00:12:18.559 more than it would be worth for me to release that, 224 00:12:18.759 --> 00:12:22.399 so I'm making money that way. Or I discovered how 225 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:25.279 to make cars run on water. But now the automotive 226 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:27.879 companies are paying me more than it would be worth 227 00:12:27.879 --> 00:12:29.840 for me to release it. So he just like starts 228 00:12:29.879 --> 00:12:33.159 making all of his money through being a real piece 229 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:36.320 of shit human being. I would love that. I mean, 230 00:12:36.320 --> 00:12:38.080 that seems like a great thing to explore. 231 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:43.360 Such a shame of that were happening in real life 232 00:12:43.399 --> 00:12:44.039 and not fiction. 233 00:12:44.799 --> 00:12:47.240 I know, I know right now, I know that, like 234 00:12:47.480 --> 00:12:50.399 the billionaires are here to help us, So that's great. 235 00:12:50.480 --> 00:12:55.360 I'm sure once Hollywood is done smoldering, they're just gonna 236 00:12:55.360 --> 00:12:57.720 pour all kinds of money into that whole thing. That'll 237 00:12:57.720 --> 00:12:58.480 be fantastic. 238 00:12:59.720 --> 00:13:02.399 Here's some things I liked in the episode. Mark Blankfield 239 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:07.440 takes up some wind up sneaker toys. Yes, just does. 240 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:10.360 It's out of the blue. I love that I had friends 241 00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:13.600 who constantly had that ship in their pockets for some reason, 242 00:13:13.639 --> 00:13:16.639 that the eighties was the decade of the wind up toys. 243 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:19.720 Hey we should bring that bag you know what. 244 00:13:21.240 --> 00:13:21.440 Ship. 245 00:13:21.559 --> 00:13:23.399 Well, every once in a while, a little robot running 246 00:13:23.399 --> 00:13:24.399 across the. 247 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:26.799 People would be like, who's that cool guy over there? 248 00:13:27.039 --> 00:13:28.799 Who is that genuinely cool guy? 249 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:31.080 Mike's grabbing a toy, right, now as we speak. 250 00:13:31.480 --> 00:13:34.960 Yeah, it's a little hopping vampire. He just goes around 251 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:37.279 and hops. So he's not going to do it now. 252 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:39.000 Oh and he's Oh. 253 00:13:39.240 --> 00:13:42.960 He has hot he's he has a hop performance anxiety. 254 00:13:42.799 --> 00:13:44.480 The Chinese hopping vampire. 255 00:13:44.840 --> 00:13:47.200 Yes it is. Once I saw one of these, I 256 00:13:47.200 --> 00:13:48.240 said I have to get it. 257 00:13:49.080 --> 00:13:51.320 You know, I really want one of those Godzilla wind 258 00:13:51.399 --> 00:13:53.120 up toys where it sparks out of its mouth. 259 00:13:53.159 --> 00:13:53.799 You remember those. 260 00:13:54.080 --> 00:13:54.759 I had one of those. 261 00:13:55.000 --> 00:13:55.200 Kid. 262 00:13:55.320 --> 00:13:59.639 Yeah, they're so fucking cool. Not tea, but it's very cool. 263 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:01.919 Not teeth, not little sneakers. 264 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:04.840 I'd like something more age appropriate as opposed to something 265 00:14:04.879 --> 00:14:06.120 that a child would have. 266 00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:07.080 Mark Blankfield. 267 00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:10.840 I like. Here's another thing I like. When he's introduced, 268 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:15.320 he refers to his former girlfriend A is twenty percent 269 00:14:15.360 --> 00:14:21.480 body fat, eighty percent lean and mean tissue cuddles. I 270 00:14:21.600 --> 00:14:25.679 like that description. Also, when the husband has finally thrown 271 00:14:25.720 --> 00:14:28.799 out Mark Blankfield and is directing his anger at the 272 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:31.279 wife he could, he says that she's dressed like a 273 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:34.360 dance hall fluozy, and then he takes it back. He says, oh, 274 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:36.200 I didn't mean that. And all I can say to 275 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:38.720 that is, if you call somebody a dance hall floozy. 276 00:14:38.960 --> 00:14:39.840 You fucking mean it? 277 00:14:40.320 --> 00:14:49.039 Oh yeah? Wow, didn't know we needed to bring Wang 278 00:14:49.120 --> 00:14:50.440 Chung into this book. Okay. 279 00:14:51.000 --> 00:14:53.120 The only other good thing is one of the musical 280 00:14:53.200 --> 00:14:55.399 beds they had going in the background was a harpsichord, 281 00:14:55.440 --> 00:14:57.960 which I always love when they throwing in a modern setting. 282 00:14:58.399 --> 00:15:01.080 It just makes everything feel a bit off. Other than that, 283 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:04.879 I do not recommend this one all that much. Other 284 00:15:04.960 --> 00:15:07.080 than I like the concept of the ending. 285 00:15:08.799 --> 00:15:13.039 Yes, the concept was good, the execution not so good. 286 00:15:13.759 --> 00:15:17.960 Yeah, that's great. On to season two, episode four. This 287 00:15:18.039 --> 00:15:22.279 is Florence Bravo. It aired originally on October nineteenth, nineteen 288 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:26.879 eighty six. Written by Edith Swinson Everybody's Favorite. Directed by 289 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:31.440 John Lewis, This one stars Laurie Cardilly, David Hayward, Carol Levy, 290 00:15:31.759 --> 00:15:35.720 and Laryn Klein as Florence Bravo. She's currently a voice 291 00:15:35.720 --> 00:15:39.759 in Red Dead Redemption. This is about an emotionally unstable 292 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:42.600 wife who fears her husband is cheating and the ghost 293 00:15:42.639 --> 00:15:45.360 in their newly purchased home isn't helping the matter any 294 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:47.519 which you think of this one, Chris. 295 00:15:47.279 --> 00:15:50.039 I liked it better when they did it on Americ 296 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:53.919 Kid Horror Store. I guess this is what this felt like, right. 297 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:56.039 That was the first season of that goddamn show. A 298 00:15:56.120 --> 00:15:59.639 ghost trying to convince a wife that you're being cheated on. Wow, 299 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:02.720 you murder your husband, wow, because you're possessed by the 300 00:16:02.720 --> 00:16:05.799 ghost man. Ryan Murphy shouldn't rip off Tales from the 301 00:16:05.879 --> 00:16:08.399 dark Side, And that was fine. I think actually, of 302 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:12.919 the episodes that we've talked about recently, this one I 303 00:16:12.919 --> 00:16:16.360 think is again it's proper mean at the end, which 304 00:16:16.360 --> 00:16:18.840 I appreciate. I think that the one with the little 305 00:16:18.840 --> 00:16:21.000 girl being drowned was proper mean, and I think it 306 00:16:21.080 --> 00:16:22.159 earns the meanness. 307 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:24.759 I don't know. I just wish it wasn't so fucking 308 00:16:24.840 --> 00:16:25.840 obvious with the Vidy. 309 00:16:25.960 --> 00:16:28.759 I wish it wasn't so obvious what the fucking episode 310 00:16:28.799 --> 00:16:31.200 was doing more or less from the get go. She 311 00:16:31.320 --> 00:16:33.360 was a big time feminist. Okay, so the ghost is 312 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:37.320 gonna do something here. Remind me if anybody's ever like, 313 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:39.279 there's a big feminist ghost in this house, to be like, 314 00:16:39.480 --> 00:16:39.799 can I. 315 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:40.360 Not live there? 316 00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:42.240 Because it seems like you know a lot more about 317 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:44.480 the ghost than you should. And I don't want to 318 00:16:44.480 --> 00:16:45.879 be part of that now because I think a feminist 319 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:48.159 ghost would kill me, just because if you if you 320 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:50.480 know that much about a ghost, that's a problem. It 321 00:16:50.519 --> 00:16:53.039 seems like the ghost is in fact real, which the 322 00:16:53.039 --> 00:16:56.519 ghost ends up being very fucking real. So I thought 323 00:16:56.519 --> 00:17:01.080 it was fine, better than some of the blackout sketch 324 00:17:01.559 --> 00:17:03.720 ish things we've had recently, because this is not a 325 00:17:03.720 --> 00:17:07.039 blackout sketch at least. 326 00:17:07.079 --> 00:17:07.759 Mike, what about you? 327 00:17:07.880 --> 00:17:09.799 I think you liked it more than I did. I 328 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:12.720 just could see everything that was coming from the beginning. 329 00:17:12.839 --> 00:17:14.880 I was just like, Oh, okay, so there's gonna be 330 00:17:14.920 --> 00:17:19.640 ghosts and oh yeah, it's gaslighting her and. 331 00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:21.319 Ghost lighting her mic oh yeah. 332 00:17:21.400 --> 00:17:21.599 Yeah. 333 00:17:21.640 --> 00:17:26.240 It just felt very, very familiar with this whole plot, 334 00:17:26.359 --> 00:17:30.799 and I actually was giving this episode more credit than 335 00:17:31.279 --> 00:17:34.400 it deserved because I thought the ghost was actually played 336 00:17:34.440 --> 00:17:37.880 by the same actress that played the wife. Because a 337 00:17:37.880 --> 00:17:39.920 lot of times when you see the ghost, you're seeing 338 00:17:39.960 --> 00:17:43.319 her from the back in the rocking chair. So I'm like, oh, well, 339 00:17:43.319 --> 00:17:46.039 that's kind of clever. Keep her face a little bit hidden, 340 00:17:46.480 --> 00:17:48.599 and when they turn at the end and look at 341 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:51.200 each other, it'll be the same person looking. It would 342 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:54.480 be like a mirror, be like poetry or rhymes but 343 00:17:55.599 --> 00:17:59.039 they didn't do that. It's a different woman. So I'm like, oh, okay, 344 00:17:59.039 --> 00:18:00.559 so the thing I thought you were going to do 345 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:03.960 with the cool reveal, you just said, nah, nah, that's 346 00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:04.279 to day. 347 00:18:06.880 --> 00:18:07.920 How about aout UFM. 348 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:11.359 I liked this one. It just might be in comparison 349 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:13.880 to the three previous ones we got. This one did 350 00:18:13.920 --> 00:18:16.759 feel more Tales from the Dark Sign than not. However, 351 00:18:17.400 --> 00:18:20.039 did feel familiar, didn't it. That's because we trained in 352 00:18:20.079 --> 00:18:23.079 the trenches of Night Gallery. This does feel very Night Gallery, 353 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:26.839 the ghost convincing you that there's cheating. There's plenty of 354 00:18:26.920 --> 00:18:30.519 those episodes, plenty of variations on it. The human who 355 00:18:30.519 --> 00:18:34.480 finds the ghost, and the ghost wants them to kill 356 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:37.240 her husband, and then there's the host. There were tons. Anyway, 357 00:18:37.319 --> 00:18:40.000 it feels like a tired genre, but it also feels 358 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:41.960 with a good enough story, they can do it. I 359 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:44.200 don't know that this one is it. I do like 360 00:18:44.240 --> 00:18:47.279 seeing Lori carn Dilly. This Tales and the Dark Sign 361 00:18:47.319 --> 00:18:50.359 seems a repository for a Day of the Dead actor, 362 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:53.880 as we had Sherman Howard last season. Here Lori Cardilly 363 00:18:53.880 --> 00:18:56.839 also from Day of the Dead. I liked her performance 364 00:18:57.039 --> 00:18:59.359 and I liked it again. I like the concept of 365 00:18:59.400 --> 00:19:03.160 the episode. I like the ambiguity of these episodes when 366 00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:06.519 they're done well, because baked into this is the fact 367 00:19:06.599 --> 00:19:09.319 that she's been she's had some sort of breakdown, and 368 00:19:09.480 --> 00:19:11.720 she's supposed to be taking her medication, and they make 369 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:14.680 it up she is definitely not taking her medication. And 370 00:19:14.799 --> 00:19:18.039 seen that before, we have seen We've seen it tons 371 00:19:18.039 --> 00:19:20.759 of times. But here's Tails from the dark Side. So 372 00:19:20.799 --> 00:19:22.799 I was waiting for them to go a little more 373 00:19:22.839 --> 00:19:26.079 hard or on that. I guess Tails from the dark Side. 374 00:19:26.119 --> 00:19:28.640 In the end, it's always going to be a supernatural landing. 375 00:19:28.640 --> 00:19:30.599 If this had been Tails from the Crypt, which I'm 376 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:32.440 sure we got a couple of them in this, on 377 00:19:32.480 --> 00:19:35.480 that too, it would definitely end the other way. I 378 00:19:35.480 --> 00:19:35.759 don't know. 379 00:19:36.279 --> 00:19:39.880 I was hoping that speaking of going harder, and I 380 00:19:39.920 --> 00:19:43.519 was hoping maybe the husband had been gaslighting her and 381 00:19:43.720 --> 00:19:46.119 made her think that she was crazy, that she actually 382 00:19:46.240 --> 00:19:49.519 didn't have a breakdown, or he was giving her something 383 00:19:49.559 --> 00:19:53.480 to give her, you know, make her unstable, I don't know, 384 00:19:53.559 --> 00:19:56.920 for some reason. And then the ghost is actually no, no, 385 00:19:57.160 --> 00:19:59.519 like I'm helping you out, like you don't know the 386 00:19:59.559 --> 00:20:01.400 real true truth. And then the truth will come out 387 00:20:01.440 --> 00:20:05.000 through the through my actions. But no, that didn't happen either. 388 00:20:05.680 --> 00:20:08.160 David Hayward, who I remember from the nineties being on 389 00:20:08.240 --> 00:20:10.440 Beverly Hills nine oh two. I no, yes, I watched 390 00:20:10.440 --> 00:20:13.240 Beverly Hills nine oh two. No, but he was also 391 00:20:13.400 --> 00:20:17.000 on Twilight Zone eighty five and two separate episodes Gentlemen. 392 00:20:17.359 --> 00:20:19.359 He was in He was a reporter in a Saucer 393 00:20:19.400 --> 00:20:22.960 of Loneliness that was with the Yeah, the Shelley Devall episode, 394 00:20:23.119 --> 00:20:27.640 answered Libertini, Yeah, that's right. And he was Paul the 395 00:20:27.759 --> 00:20:30.240 husband in Dreams for Sale. 396 00:20:30.640 --> 00:20:38.720 Oh, dreams for keeping, Gotta keep it alive, got to 397 00:20:38.799 --> 00:20:41.640 keep the memory alive. And that's right. 398 00:20:41.720 --> 00:20:44.480 He was the husband in fucking Dreams for Sale, wasn't he? 399 00:20:44.960 --> 00:20:47.480 There was all that man, what's the mustache? 400 00:20:47.519 --> 00:20:47.680 Too? 401 00:20:47.720 --> 00:20:47.920