Speaker 1: Way wait a sad.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to Midnight Viewing, the Horror Anthology podcast, where
Speaker 2: this season we're taking a look at George A. Romero's
Speaker 2: nineteen eighties series Tales from the Dark Side. Sharing the
Speaker 2: Midnight view with me are the Projection Boost Mike White, I.
Speaker 3: Am very lazy and that will cost me a lot.
Speaker 2: Of money true, and the Culture Cast Chris Nashu.
Speaker 4: I don't know about the Bitterest Pill, but I have
Speaker 4: heard of a jagged little pill.
Speaker 2: Tonight we are taking a look at two episodes from
Speaker 2: season three. Those are The Bitterest Pill and Florence Bravo.
Speaker 2: The Bitterest Pill is season three episode number three, originally
Speaker 2: aired on October the twelfth, nineteen eighty six. This was
Speaker 2: written by Michael Cube of McDowell and Julie Selbo, based
Speaker 2: on a short story by Frederick Pohle, and directed by
Speaker 2: Brian Michael Stoller. This one stars Mark Blankfield at Joe Carraffalo,
Speaker 2: Catherine Benison, and a Jason Horst as Jonathan. It's about
Speaker 2: a mad chemist and former flame who reappears in the
Speaker 2: lives of a couple who've recently won the lottery with
Speaker 2: a promise of not just fortune but world domination. It
Speaker 2: is a bit convoluted. What did you think of it, Mike?
Speaker 3: A bit, a bit? Ah, Yeah, I really like Mark Blankfield.
Speaker 3: I kind of grew up with him in different things.
Speaker 3: I was just recently watching what was the one he
Speaker 3: did Frankenstein General Hospitalers.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh it's terrible. It's absolutely terrible, And I'm just like,
Speaker 3: how did they make comedies like this in the past?
Speaker 3: And just know they had to know they were dogs, right?
Speaker 2: Yeah? And what a weird bookend to young doctors in
Speaker 2: love at the beginning of the decade they gain well.
Speaker 3: And then Jacquel and hide together again in there as well.
Speaker 3: So yeah, gosh. Yeah, he's a very special taste. He's
Speaker 3: completely unhinged in this episode, which is absolutely fine. I
Speaker 3: really like Frederick Pohl, and I think I'd like to
Speaker 3: go back and track down the original short story. I
Speaker 3: will admit that when I first started watching this episode,
Speaker 3: I thought the father was Dan casting A Letta Homer Simpson,
Speaker 3: and I thought the mom for a hot second was
Speaker 3: Adrian Barbo. Her profile looked almost exactly like that, and
Speaker 3: I was like, Oh, I am in for treat. Oh
Speaker 3: this is going to be great. Yeah, not to offend
Speaker 3: the actors, but the caliber that they are is pretty
Speaker 3: much the caliber of the episode. And that shit eating kid,
Speaker 3: I just I didn't get it, the whole thing of Okay,
Speaker 3: we won the lottery. First, I thought that was going
Speaker 3: to be a dream or seat of something, just because
Speaker 3: of the way how odd it is. And then they
Speaker 3: get into things and I'm like, no, I guess that
Speaker 3: was a real thing. I guess they're so rich they
Speaker 3: need a bodyguard. Now I live in some big estate,
Speaker 3: but yeah, and then this dude shows up and just
Speaker 3: starts acting crazy, and the longeraise on screen, the crazier
Speaker 3: he gets, and I wasn't here for it. Wasn't able
Speaker 3: to connect with this episode, Chris, Were you able to
Speaker 3: connect with the episode?
Speaker 5: Oh God, I wish somebody would have connected with a
Speaker 5: right hook to my fucking temple so I didn't have
Speaker 5: to watch this episode.
Speaker 4: Good lord.
Speaker 5: The acting place Tinker was just Oh the way William
Speaker 5: Hickey was chewing scenery in the last episode we talked about.
Speaker 5: In the last two episodes we talked about, this was
Speaker 5: just insanity bullshit, Like, just what the fuck was it?
Speaker 4: Father Malone? Was it?
Speaker 5: No? It was I guess the three of us, we
Speaker 5: were talking about that weird episode one of these anthology
Speaker 5: shows where they were like in a studio and all
Speaker 5: of a sudden, the noises started existing in the studio
Speaker 5: and like aliens showed up and shit.
Speaker 2: That was a Yeah, it was an old radio drama
Speaker 2: going on and there was a curse on the theater
Speaker 2: and everything they described appeared.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it reminded me of that where all of a sudden,
Speaker 5: the guys just in the house. He starts making noises
Speaker 5: and dreaming and just I don't find you know what
Speaker 5: I get that. There's the idea at the center of
Speaker 5: this is, Oh, they have this kooky friend who has
Speaker 5: this whole opportunity that they could take advantage of, and
Speaker 5: if they don't, they're gonna miss out on an opportunity.
Speaker 5: And then it turns out that the kid eats it
Speaker 5: and haha, the kid's super smart. Now, why is the
Speaker 5: whole payoff of this fucking episode like two minutes long?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 4: Is that so strange?
Speaker 3: Is that the kid seems to be punishing the parents
Speaker 3: and keeping the prison there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because they kept him prisoner. That was the one
Speaker 5: thing I was like, Okay, I get this part. I
Speaker 5: understood what they were getting at, only in as much
Speaker 5: as like they were leaving him locked in his room,
Speaker 5: and so at the end of the episode he's like, well,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna lock you in your room and it's okay, sure,
Speaker 5: but that seems illak and I don't know if you
Speaker 5: could do that me personally. Isn't this limitless? Do you
Speaker 5: guys ever see that movie with Bradley Cooper.
Speaker 4: Isn't it just this?
Speaker 3: No? But I saw the TV series that was based.
Speaker 2: On on it.
Speaker 4: Okay, but the same thing.
Speaker 3: Right, No, you're totally right, You're you're absolutely right. As
Speaker 3: far as the power that unlocks this, the kid now
Speaker 3: seems very very rich.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, he's an asshole, but.
Speaker 3: He cannot afford any sort of cover art for his book.
Speaker 5: Come, thank you for pointing that out. That is like
Speaker 5: that looks like he's being held hostage. It looks like
Speaker 5: a ransom note.
Speaker 3: So terrible.
Speaker 5: Yeah, production, I'm selling New York Times book with the
Speaker 5: bitterest pill.
Speaker 4: I'm not with that cover.
Speaker 2: It's not no, no, he bought up your copy. That's
Speaker 2: what was happening.
Speaker 3: Oh, okay, that's yeah. I've heard about that happening before.
Speaker 2: My goodness, the bitterest pill. You know, halfway down my notes,
Speaker 2: halfway through the episode, I did write, Mark Blankfield is
Speaker 2: an acquired taste. I'm on your side with that, Mike.
Speaker 2: I remember him being in everything when we were kids,
Speaker 2: like you couldn't turn around and not stamp not only
Speaker 2: the ones we mentioned, but like the Incredible Shrinking Woman.
Speaker 2: I thought he was fucking hlarious in that. You mentioned
Speaker 2: Jekyl and Hide Together again. There's a moment in that
Speaker 2: film where he's supposed to be doing a like an
Speaker 2: organ transplant and he turns into mister Hyde and he
Speaker 2: looks at the tray of oregons and he goes, oh, buds,
Speaker 2: which just lives in my brain. So Mark Blankfield, I
Speaker 2: tried looking him up more than just his credits, because
Speaker 2: I also remember him from Fridays and ABC's attempt at
Speaker 2: Saturday Night Live. He was one of the cast on that,
Speaker 2: but like.
Speaker 3: Back when, wasn't Michael Richards on that as well?
Speaker 2: Sure was, and Larry David was one of the writers
Speaker 2: at that.
Speaker 3: Oh fuck yeah. I think I actually watch a lot
Speaker 3: of episodes of that. I don't know why, because nothing
Speaker 3: sticks with me. It's like there are bits from SNL
Speaker 3: from the same period of time that I can still quote.
Speaker 3: But Fridays, I just nothing's there.
Speaker 2: Firmat because there were no reruns of Friday, so be composable.
Speaker 2: But all the SNL stuff got repackaged and reshown to
Speaker 2: us over and over again. Yeah, I wish I could
Speaker 2: have found out more about him. I've always really liked
Speaker 2: him as a performer, and he's doing his thing here.
Speaker 2: I know, Chris, it's a bit much. It is a
Speaker 2: bit all Jim Carrey or some sort of French comedian.
Speaker 4: Jim Carrey, Hey, buddy.
Speaker 2: Pretty similar.
Speaker 5: Oh wait, if Jim Carrey, if there was no redeeming
Speaker 5: value to Jim Carrey, I.
Speaker 2: Think Jim Carrey would have done the same shit in here,
Speaker 2: not that none of it. Also would have been funny
Speaker 2: because the episode is not agreed episode. They're not supposed
Speaker 2: to be doing comedy here on tell Us the dark Side.
Speaker 2: What's making me laugh on this show is the fact
Speaker 2: that the sister is going to drown the little girl
Speaker 2: like they did in the previous episode. That's the funny this.
Speaker 2: As bad as the episode is, though, it does echo
Speaker 2: the themes I've noticed have emerged on the show every season.
Speaker 2: We're going to get a few episodes where they begin
Speaker 2: with a chaoic home environment. The show definitely seems hell
Speaker 2: bent on putting a hammer to the fifties nuclear family idea,
Speaker 2: more than any anthology show we've seen, including Twilight Zone,
Speaker 2: which was running concurrently with this. Also emasculation, there's a
Speaker 2: whole lot of emasculation on this show. Like here, It
Speaker 2: isn't just this crazy chemist from their past show. So
Speaker 2: he's the guy who tried to steal his wife away
Speaker 2: on the night of their marriage. Oh yeah, you're dynamic
Speaker 2: to throw in all of a sudden.
Speaker 4: Was a really smart guy.
Speaker 3: Though, smacks or ass and stuff. When she's crawling across him,
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh okay.
Speaker 2: And by the way she is crawling across him, I'm like,
Speaker 2: look out, fair hubby.
Speaker 3: Yeah, with that guy. Nobody's very redeemable in this. But
Speaker 3: I think the husband's the worst character.
Speaker 2: He is a Johnny bag of donuts. He's just a
Speaker 2: stretched out, weird, shouty sort of a guy. But the ending,
Speaker 2: I love the ending. I wanted to have gotten there.
Speaker 2: I wanted to have earned that. I wanted that kid
Speaker 2: to have been treated poorly and was getting a revenge
Speaker 2: on them, or it just came out of nowhere and
Speaker 2: he's now lording over them and Darkseide can be just
Speaker 2: fine with a with an out of the blue. Now
Speaker 2: you're all fucked ending as far as I'm concerned. But
Speaker 2: they were going for a comeuppance here and locking your
Speaker 2: kid in his room for an hour while there's a
Speaker 2: lunatic downstairs. It's probably not the worst thing. Ever. I
Speaker 2: imagine that kid had plenty of toys while they were wealthy.
Speaker 2: Why did they stay in that house?
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, good question.
Speaker 2: They stayed any two bedroom bungalow and Pasadena. What they
Speaker 2: were millionaires? They won the lottery in the opening? What?
Speaker 2: This is a fucking weird episode. I wish they had
Speaker 2: pulled it out, honestly, because I'm into how chaotic it
Speaker 2: is and how firing in every direction it goes. It
Speaker 2: just can't pull it together.
Speaker 4: No, it's too much.
Speaker 5: I think it's just too much, too much all at once,
Speaker 5: and they don't do enough to get it there. And
Speaker 5: then the ending just I'm so disappointed because the ending.
Speaker 5: I like the idea, but it logistically makes no fucking sense.
Speaker 2: No, they're saying that the kid is so fucking brilliant.
Speaker 2: Now because he took the pills instead of the father,
Speaker 2: then he's figured out a legal loophole to become his
Speaker 2: parents' guardians. We're just supposed to believe that he's the
Speaker 2: smartest thing on earth now, and like he'll he whatever
Speaker 2: he wants, he's going to get. That's what Blackfield kid
Speaker 2: yelling about. It's not even about the money, it's the power.
Speaker 2: You're going to have real power with this.
Speaker 3: Right, and wish that half the episode had been the
Speaker 3: kid after he takes the pill, and right, like, all right,
Speaker 3: what's his machinations? How does he do this? I solve this.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna like, maybe be a real piece of shit.
Speaker 3: Like I note that most millionaires and billionaires really are
Speaker 3: very very nice people that want to help out people.
Speaker 3: They donate almost all of their money to worthy causes
Speaker 3: and things. I really want to. I want billionaires to
Speaker 3: like me because I like them so much. But the
Speaker 3: thing is, show me, show me what a piece of
Speaker 3: shit this kid is. He's like, oh, I discovered the
Speaker 3: cure for cancer, but the pharmaceutical companies are paying me
Speaker 3: more than it would be worth for me to release that,
Speaker 3: so I'm making money that way. Or I discovered how
Speaker 3: to make cars run on water. But now the automotive
Speaker 3: companies are paying me more than it would be worth
Speaker 3: for me to release it. So he just like starts
Speaker 3: making all of his money through being a real piece
Speaker 3: of shit human being. I would love that. I mean,
Speaker 3: that seems like a great thing to explore.
Speaker 4: Such a shame of that were happening in real life
Speaker 4: and not fiction.
Speaker 3: I know, I know right now, I know that, like
Speaker 3: the billionaires are here to help us, So that's great.
Speaker 3: I'm sure once Hollywood is done smoldering, they're just gonna
Speaker 3: pour all kinds of money into that whole thing. That'll
Speaker 3: be fantastic.
Speaker 2: Here's some things I liked in the episode. Mark Blankfield
Speaker 2: takes up some wind up sneaker toys. Yes, just does.
Speaker 2: It's out of the blue. I love that I had friends
Speaker 2: who constantly had that ship in their pockets for some reason,
Speaker 2: that the eighties was the decade of the wind up toys.
Speaker 4: Hey we should bring that bag you know what.
Speaker 3: Ship.
Speaker 2: Well, every once in a while, a little robot running
Speaker 2: across the.
Speaker 5: People would be like, who's that cool guy over there?
Speaker 4: Who is that genuinely cool guy?
Speaker 5: Mike's grabbing a toy, right, now as we speak.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a little hopping vampire. He just goes around
Speaker 3: and hops. So he's not going to do it now.
Speaker 2: Oh and he's Oh.
Speaker 4: He has hot he's he has a hop performance anxiety.
Speaker 2: The Chinese hopping vampire.
Speaker 3: Yes it is. Once I saw one of these, I
Speaker 3: said I have to get it.
Speaker 5: You know, I really want one of those Godzilla wind
Speaker 5: up toys where it sparks out of its mouth.
Speaker 4: You remember those.
Speaker 2: I had one of those.
Speaker 1: Kid.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're so fucking cool. Not tea, but it's very cool.
Speaker 4: Not teeth, not little sneakers.
Speaker 5: I'd like something more age appropriate as opposed to something
Speaker 5: that a child would have.
Speaker 4: Mark Blankfield.
Speaker 2: I like. Here's another thing I like. When he's introduced,
Speaker 2: he refers to his former girlfriend A is twenty percent
Speaker 2: body fat, eighty percent lean and mean tissue cuddles. I
Speaker 2: like that description. Also, when the husband has finally thrown
Speaker 2: out Mark Blankfield and is directing his anger at the
Speaker 2: wife he could, he says that she's dressed like a
Speaker 2: dance hall fluozy, and then he takes it back. He says, oh,
Speaker 2: I didn't mean that. And all I can say to
Speaker 2: that is, if you call somebody a dance hall floozy.
Speaker 2: You fucking mean it?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah? Wow, didn't know we needed to bring Wang
Speaker 4: Chung into this book. Okay.
Speaker 2: The only other good thing is one of the musical
Speaker 2: beds they had going in the background was a harpsichord,
Speaker 2: which I always love when they throwing in a modern setting.
Speaker 2: It just makes everything feel a bit off. Other than that,
Speaker 2: I do not recommend this one all that much. Other
Speaker 2: than I like the concept of the ending.
Speaker 3: Yes, the concept was good, the execution not so good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's great. On to season two, episode four. This
Speaker 2: is Florence Bravo. It aired originally on October nineteenth, nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty six. Written by Edith Swinson Everybody's Favorite. Directed by
Speaker 2: John Lewis, This one stars Laurie Cardilly, David Hayward, Carol Levy,
Speaker 2: and Laryn Klein as Florence Bravo. She's currently a voice
Speaker 2: in Red Dead Redemption. This is about an emotionally unstable
Speaker 2: wife who fears her husband is cheating and the ghost
Speaker 2: in their newly purchased home isn't helping the matter any
Speaker 2: which you think of this one, Chris.
Speaker 5: I liked it better when they did it on Americ
Speaker 5: Kid Horror Store. I guess this is what this felt like, right.
Speaker 5: That was the first season of that goddamn show. A
Speaker 5: ghost trying to convince a wife that you're being cheated on. Wow,
Speaker 5: you murder your husband, wow, because you're possessed by the
Speaker 5: ghost man. Ryan Murphy shouldn't rip off Tales from the
Speaker 5: dark Side, And that was fine. I think actually, of
Speaker 5: the episodes that we've talked about recently, this one I
Speaker 5: think is again it's proper mean at the end, which
Speaker 5: I appreciate. I think that the one with the little
Speaker 5: girl being drowned was proper mean, and I think it
Speaker 5: earns the meanness.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I just wish it wasn't so fucking
Speaker 4: obvious with the Vidy.
Speaker 5: I wish it wasn't so obvious what the fucking episode
Speaker 5: was doing more or less from the get go. She
Speaker 5: was a big time feminist. Okay, so the ghost is
Speaker 5: gonna do something here. Remind me if anybody's ever like,
Speaker 5: there's a big feminist ghost in this house, to be like,
Speaker 5: can I.
Speaker 4: Not live there?
Speaker 5: Because it seems like you know a lot more about
Speaker 5: the ghost than you should. And I don't want to
Speaker 5: be part of that now because I think a feminist
Speaker 5: ghost would kill me, just because if you if you
Speaker 5: know that much about a ghost, that's a problem. It
Speaker 5: seems like the ghost is in fact real, which the
Speaker 5: ghost ends up being very fucking real. So I thought
Speaker 5: it was fine, better than some of the blackout sketch
Speaker 5: ish things we've had recently, because this is not a
Speaker 5: blackout sketch at least.
Speaker 4: Mike, what about you?
Speaker 3: I think you liked it more than I did. I
Speaker 3: just could see everything that was coming from the beginning.
Speaker 3: I was just like, Oh, okay, so there's gonna be
Speaker 3: ghosts and oh yeah, it's gaslighting her and.
Speaker 4: Ghost lighting her mic oh yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It just felt very, very familiar with this whole plot,
Speaker 3: and I actually was giving this episode more credit than
Speaker 3: it deserved because I thought the ghost was actually played
Speaker 3: by the same actress that played the wife. Because a
Speaker 3: lot of times when you see the ghost, you're seeing
Speaker 3: her from the back in the rocking chair. So I'm like, oh, well,
Speaker 3: that's kind of clever. Keep her face a little bit hidden,
Speaker 3: and when they turn at the end and look at
Speaker 3: each other, it'll be the same person looking. It would
Speaker 3: be like a mirror, be like poetry or rhymes but
Speaker 3: they didn't do that. It's a different woman. So I'm like, oh, okay,
Speaker 3: so the thing I thought you were going to do
Speaker 3: with the cool reveal, you just said, nah, nah, that's
Speaker 3: to day.
Speaker 4: How about aout UFM.
Speaker 2: I liked this one. It just might be in comparison
Speaker 2: to the three previous ones we got. This one did
Speaker 2: feel more Tales from the Dark Sign than not. However,
Speaker 2: did feel familiar, didn't it. That's because we trained in
Speaker 2: the trenches of Night Gallery. This does feel very Night Gallery,
Speaker 2: the ghost convincing you that there's cheating. There's plenty of
Speaker 2: those episodes, plenty of variations on it. The human who
Speaker 2: finds the ghost, and the ghost wants them to kill
Speaker 2: her husband, and then there's the host. There were tons. Anyway,
Speaker 2: it feels like a tired genre, but it also feels
Speaker 2: with a good enough story, they can do it. I
Speaker 2: don't know that this one is it. I do like
Speaker 2: seeing Lori carn Dilly. This Tales and the Dark Sign
Speaker 2: seems a repository for a Day of the Dead actor,
Speaker 2: as we had Sherman Howard last season. Here Lori Cardilly
Speaker 2: also from Day of the Dead. I liked her performance
Speaker 2: and I liked it again. I like the concept of
Speaker 2: the episode. I like the ambiguity of these episodes when
Speaker 2: they're done well, because baked into this is the fact
Speaker 2: that she's been she's had some sort of breakdown, and
Speaker 2: she's supposed to be taking her medication, and they make
Speaker 2: it up she is definitely not taking her medication. And
Speaker 2: seen that before, we have seen We've seen it tons
Speaker 2: of times. But here's Tails from the dark Side. So
Speaker 2: I was waiting for them to go a little more
Speaker 2: hard or on that. I guess Tails from the dark Side.
Speaker 2: In the end, it's always going to be a supernatural landing.
Speaker 2: If this had been Tails from the Crypt, which I'm
Speaker 2: sure we got a couple of them in this, on
Speaker 2: that too, it would definitely end the other way. I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 3: I was hoping that speaking of going harder, and I
Speaker 3: was hoping maybe the husband had been gaslighting her and
Speaker 3: made her think that she was crazy, that she actually
Speaker 3: didn't have a breakdown, or he was giving her something
Speaker 3: to give her, you know, make her unstable, I don't know,
Speaker 3: for some reason. And then the ghost is actually no, no,
Speaker 3: like I'm helping you out, like you don't know the
Speaker 3: real true truth. And then the truth will come out
Speaker 3: through the through my actions. But no, that didn't happen either.
Speaker 2: David Hayward, who I remember from the nineties being on
Speaker 2: Beverly Hills nine oh two. I no, yes, I watched
Speaker 2: Beverly Hills nine oh two. No, but he was also
Speaker 2: on Twilight Zone eighty five and two separate episodes Gentlemen.
Speaker 2: He was in He was a reporter in a Saucer
Speaker 2: of Loneliness that was with the Yeah, the Shelley Devall episode,
Speaker 2: answered Libertini, Yeah, that's right. And he was Paul the
Speaker 2: husband in Dreams for Sale.
Speaker 4: Oh, dreams for keeping, Gotta keep it alive, got to
Speaker 4: keep the memory alive. And that's right.
Speaker 5: He was the husband in fucking Dreams for Sale, wasn't he?
Speaker 5: There was all that man, what's the mustache?
Speaker 4: Too?
Speaker 5: Even?
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure absolutely, And if fans of Christopher Guest,
Speaker 2: he made a non mockumentary, non improv movie called The
Speaker 2: Big Picture about a film student who's getting his big
Speaker 2: break and making a movie and the sort of the
Speaker 2: the the art house movie that he wants to make
Speaker 2: features David Hayward. They keep cutting to that movie as
Speaker 2: the and that movie keeps changing as the film progresses
Speaker 2: in the studio keeps interfering.
Speaker 3: Oh that's so weird because I just talked with was
Speaker 3: it the screenwriter of that movie? Because I was like,
Speaker 3: oh gosh, I love the Big Picture, and yeah, I
Speaker 3: haven't thought about that in forever, and I just was
Speaker 3: thinking about it two days ago. So great poll.
Speaker 2: Oh Man and Jennifer Jason Lee and that that that
Speaker 2: the actual Manic Pixie dream girl. Oh yes, uh, it's ghosty.
Speaker 2: This one. It's murdery. I like it, ending sure is,
Speaker 2: and I like it. I like a murderous ghost if
Speaker 2: she's a feminist or not. Here's the one thing I
Speaker 2: did notice, ordinarily, in any of these ghost stories, what
Speaker 2: will happen is the couple gets sold to Bill of Goods.
Speaker 2: They've sold house, and then they find out afterwards that
Speaker 2: there was some sort of ghost situation here and they
Speaker 2: have to track that real estate agent down and punch
Speaker 2: the information out of them. Here it's this is a
Speaker 2: three bedroom, you know, see it's got two floors. Oh,
Speaker 2: there was a horrendous murder down here.
Speaker 3: Check out these boards.
Speaker 5: Pretty sure they see that's real blood, real flattered blood.
Speaker 4: That's a bullet hole. The hole is still on the wall.
Speaker 4: Didn't even dig it out of the drywall.
Speaker 3: You'd probably use a if you got one of those
Speaker 3: metal detectors.
Speaker 2: Go around the walls.
Speaker 3: See what else you dig up. There might be knives
Speaker 3: sitting here.
Speaker 5: They a couple of safety razors that they put through
Speaker 5: the wall.
Speaker 4: Who knows.
Speaker 2: So far, I'm really enjoying the beginnings and the endings
Speaker 2: of the episodes and toes in the dark side this scene.
Speaker 2: It's just what's hanging in the middle that's proving to
Speaker 2: be a problem.
Speaker 5: This season has been so far pretty mediocre compared to
Speaker 5: the first two seasons.
Speaker 4: That's more my takeaway.
Speaker 5: So far this show has been very lack luster compared
Speaker 5: to the first two seasons, being I would say, rather
Speaker 5: quality all the way through. Like I would say the
Speaker 5: first two seasons of this show have been pretty good overall.
Speaker 5: Third season, though not, starting out with a real fart underwater.
Speaker 2: I'm not. I'm wondering if that has anything to do
Speaker 2: with Mitchell Galen's absence on the show, because he was
Speaker 2: the story editor for the first two seasons, and it's
Speaker 2: hard to put a price tag on the importance of
Speaker 2: that job when it comes to a fucking anthology. Show.
Speaker 2: It isn't like, oh, now we'll have our characters spend
Speaker 2: the day at the sub shop. No, it's we need beginnings,
Speaker 2: middles and endings that are fucking great.
Speaker 4: That people want to watch, that people enjoy. And I
Speaker 4: have not really enjoyed these four episodes.
Speaker 5: Maybe all things equal, If that's the only kind of
Speaker 5: big thing other than the involvement of George Romero, which
Speaker 5: that first episode of this season not great in and
Speaker 5: of its own right, maybe that had something to do
Speaker 5: with it, because yeah, man, I liked the ending and
Speaker 5: I liked the beginning, but yeah, I guess the middle
Speaker 5: is not great.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I did like it more than you did, Mike, but
Speaker 5: I don't know. It's still not great. Compared to the
Speaker 5: first two seasons, none of these four episodes have.
Speaker 2: Been But he doesn't compare to any of the Bad
Speaker 2: Night Gallery or.
Speaker 5: Oh no, these are just middle of the road. These
Speaker 5: are middling at best. They're not really awful.
Speaker 3: No, I haven't been like offended by any of these
Speaker 3: as far as how bad they are.
Speaker 2: On the next episode of Midnight Viewing, we're gonna be
Speaker 2: taking a look at the next two episodes of season three.
Speaker 2: Those are the gezen Stacks and Black Widows Midnight Viewing.
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Speaker 2: What are you working on? Where can people find it?
Speaker 5: Chris Dashu, Well, I've been too busy eating a whole
Speaker 5: stack of gezons to be knowing what to do. Just
Speaker 5: geezing Stacks now, what a fucking weird name. Thank you
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Speaker 4: What am I doing?
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Speaker 5: Malone's gonna be joining us here pretty soon to talk
Speaker 5: about another James Bond movie, another Timothy Dalton film.
Speaker 4: But we're chugging right along.
Speaker 5: We're gonna have to figure out what we're doing next,
Speaker 5: because man, I think we're about two thirds of the
Speaker 5: way done at this point. Feels like we've just been
Speaker 5: cruising right along through James Bond. And if you want
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Speaker 3: which also is about rap, but probably a lot sooner
Speaker 3: than mister bond Is, because we haven't even started on
Speaker 3: those Daltons or Braslin's or what's the other guy's named
Speaker 3: Craig Greg, Greg, Greg Craig.
Speaker 4: Greg, Craig Greg and old Craig.
Speaker 2: So we'll get there.
Speaker 3: We will definitely get there, and we might take some
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