WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.639 --> 00:00:05.000 Weary. 2 00:00:05.360 --> 00:01:01.439 We welcome back to Midnight of Viewing the Whole Anthology podcast, 3 00:01:01.479 --> 00:01:03.320 where this season we're taking a look at George A. 4 00:01:03.479 --> 00:01:07.200 Romero's nineteen eighties television series Tales from the Dark Side. 5 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:09.879 Sharing the Midnight view with me are the Culture Cast 6 00:01:09.959 --> 00:01:11.200 Chris Stashu. 7 00:01:11.359 --> 00:01:14.200 This machine eats noise, and. 8 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:16.120 The Projection Booth's Mike White. 9 00:01:16.200 --> 00:01:18.719 It's just silence, My noise is being Tonight, we're taking 10 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:21.000 a look at the next two episodes of season four, 11 00:01:21.519 --> 00:01:24.040 the final season of Tales from the Dark Side. Those 12 00:01:24.079 --> 00:01:30.439 are Going Native and Hush Going Native. Season four, episode seventeen, 13 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:34.120 originally aired on June the nineteenth, nineteen eighty eight, Written 14 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:37.439 by Ted gurshoone from a short story by or rather 15 00:01:37.719 --> 00:01:40.359 from a story by Andrew Wiener, and then directed by 16 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:44.959 Andrew Wiener, starring Kim Greaset, John Apria, Cynthia David, and 17 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:49.319 Richard Coleman. This is about an alien observer who discovers 18 00:01:49.319 --> 00:01:51.480 what it means to be human. What did you think 19 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:52.560 of this one, Chris? 20 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:55.560 You know, Mike and I had talked earlier in the 21 00:01:55.560 --> 00:01:58.519 week and Mike said, and I quote, I really enjoyed. 22 00:01:58.799 --> 00:02:01.640 I gonna say what the last two episodes of this. 23 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:03.359 You know these two that we're talking about now, and 24 00:02:03.560 --> 00:02:06.079 I hope you do too well. I can tell you 25 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:08.520 on half of them that we're talking about right now. 26 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:10.840 I enjoyed it immensely. This might be one of the 27 00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:15.479 best episodes of the show that we've seen. It's thematically interesting, 28 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:18.680 it's narratively unique in a way that we have not 29 00:02:18.919 --> 00:02:22.159 really seen in this show. And I think it actually 30 00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:26.719 not for once in this show's run, but few and 31 00:02:26.759 --> 00:02:29.280 far between, do any of these episodes really touch on 32 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:33.840 something kind of serious. It's more fun or scary or 33 00:02:33.879 --> 00:02:36.639 fun and scary. I think that this episode actually is 34 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:40.479 hitting on some interesting ideas and talking about some things. 35 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:41.400 That are pretty serious. 36 00:02:41.560 --> 00:02:46.000 And to use the kind of vehicle of a emotionless 37 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:49.680 alien from another planet who's coming to observe us as 38 00:02:49.719 --> 00:02:54.680 a kind of vehicle for again, she says she's an alien, 39 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:58.000 but we could just use that as a you don't feel. 40 00:02:57.840 --> 00:03:00.199 Like you belong and there you go, and so any 41 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:00.879 of us get that. 42 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:04.039 So just using it as kind of a parable for that, 43 00:03:04.120 --> 00:03:07.439 I found it immensely entertaining. And yeah, I mean this 44 00:03:07.560 --> 00:03:09.080 is like I said, I found this to be one 45 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:11.840 of the better episodes of this show, and maybe go 46 00:03:11.879 --> 00:03:13.280 as far as to say one of the better episodes 47 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:14.439 of anything we've watched. 48 00:03:14.159 --> 00:03:15.879 Together for one of these anthology shows. 49 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:19.400 So what about you, Mike, Well, yeah, kind of already 50 00:03:19.479 --> 00:03:24.360 spoiled mine, But yes, I loved this episode. I found 51 00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:26.560 it to be shot. You know, you were talking the 52 00:03:26.639 --> 00:03:28.599 last time we met Father Malone as far as that 53 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:31.319 Tom Savini episode, and you're like, I don't know how 54 00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:34.080 much of this is the transfer versus this being. 55 00:03:33.879 --> 00:03:35.080 Over lit or things. 56 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:39.719 This one almost benefited from kind of shitty video quality 57 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:45.560 because everything feels so soft and overlt and just like 58 00:03:45.639 --> 00:03:46.960 the lights when they're in. 59 00:03:47.039 --> 00:03:52.039 The window that's in the therapy room that they're having 60 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:54.400 all of these and I'd love that it's nineteen eighty 61 00:03:54.439 --> 00:03:58.599 eight and they're having these you know, big confrontational therapy 62 00:03:58.719 --> 00:03:59.879 sessions and things. 63 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:02.120 It reminds me a lot of some of the stuff 64 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:05.520 that I remember from like wr Mysteries of the Organism, 65 00:04:05.560 --> 00:04:08.879 where just like the scream therapy, you like people being 66 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:12.120 rebirthed in those things, and like just them with these 67 00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:16.439 you know, native native pillow clubs and they're hitting pillows 68 00:04:16.439 --> 00:04:19.399 and screaming and stuff. Oh yeah, this is some of 69 00:04:19.439 --> 00:04:22.319 the psychoshit that people were doing back in the nineteen eighties. 70 00:04:22.360 --> 00:04:23.839 I really appreciate this. 71 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:25.519 Yeah, I loved it. 72 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:28.120 I really just enjoyed the way it was shot. I 73 00:04:28.199 --> 00:04:31.959 loved the voiceover. I thought Kim Grease was fantastic. I mean, 74 00:04:32.040 --> 00:04:34.920 she every time I see her and stuff, I really 75 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:35.480 enjoy it. 76 00:04:35.560 --> 00:04:36.319 I don't know. 77 00:04:36.199 --> 00:04:38.639 If she's that good in a shriek if you know 78 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:42.240 what I did last Friday the thirteenth, But I definitely 79 00:04:42.279 --> 00:04:46.120 liked her work in like Brazil and what else was 80 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:46.439 she in? 81 00:04:46.600 --> 00:04:47.279 A Manhunter? 82 00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:48.439 You know? 83 00:04:49.160 --> 00:04:49.279 Oh? 84 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:52.480 Well, of course, jud I actually really fucking loved Chud. 85 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:53.040 Yeah. 86 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:55.600 I thought she did a really good job. And yeah, 87 00:04:55.639 --> 00:04:59.199 I highly enjoyed this. Like you said, this might have 88 00:04:59.240 --> 00:05:01.600 been my favorite episode that we've seen. So now I'm 89 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:04.000 waiting for Father Malone to just shit all over it. 90 00:05:05.079 --> 00:05:05.879 Wouldn't that be so? 91 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:10.720 No, I loved this. I love it. 92 00:05:10.319 --> 00:05:14.519 I loved it particularly because no matter what series we've watched, 93 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:17.279 by the time we get to the last series, it's 94 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:21.759 all dog shit, It's all failure after failure. This season 95 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:25.920 of Tailsiman Dark Side feels like a limping season of 96 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:28.040 any other season. It doesn't feel like this is the 97 00:05:28.199 --> 00:05:33.759 end at all. I've always loved their films, their episodes 98 00:05:33.800 --> 00:05:36.360 that feel like a short film. This definitely feels like 99 00:05:36.399 --> 00:05:39.959 a short film. My god, the director is pulling in photography. 100 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:42.959 I'm assuming he's a photographer and these are all his photographs, 101 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:47.560 but he's made this alien an observer of human behavior, 102 00:05:47.839 --> 00:05:50.879 and she does that through photographing every part of culture 103 00:05:50.920 --> 00:05:53.319 that even comment on that, and she's making them into slides, 104 00:05:53.399 --> 00:05:56.639 which super effective that we get to see her watching 105 00:05:56.639 --> 00:05:59.439 the slides of her the slides being projected upon her. 106 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:04.720 This episode feels to me like every Twilight Zone eighty 107 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:09.519 five boomer episode that was attempting to understand and quantify 108 00:06:10.120 --> 00:06:13.680 and suss out what was going on with their generation, 109 00:06:14.040 --> 00:06:17.879 done in twenty two minutes and actually coming up with 110 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:24.680 a fucking a serious reason underpinning everything. The fact that, 111 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:27.439 like you said, Mike, I love that it's this. She 112 00:06:27.560 --> 00:06:30.199 goes to try and figure out how humans tink by 113 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:32.720 going to a therapy session, which of course was all 114 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:34.839 the rage at the time. Everyone was trying to figure 115 00:06:34.839 --> 00:06:37.759 out how they all ticked at that generation in particular, 116 00:06:37.920 --> 00:06:40.360 and the type of therapy we're given here is the 117 00:06:40.399 --> 00:06:43.160 silliest of them, which is the beating a pillow with 118 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:46.759 a foam bat and crying about your father or somebody 119 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:50.160 or whatever. And the fact that this alien who has 120 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:53.720 been nothing but observer up until now figures out. 121 00:06:53.519 --> 00:06:55.480 What they're all afflicted with. 122 00:06:55.720 --> 00:06:58.959 That and every human is afflicted with the thing that 123 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:02.279 makes us human is how fucking ultimately lonely we all are. 124 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:05.720 And I just thought it was magnificent. I thought the 125 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:08.079 performances across the border fucking great. 126 00:07:08.199 --> 00:07:09.079 I love Kim Grease. 127 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:12.800 I always wondered because she was, like you said, Brazil 128 00:07:12.879 --> 00:07:15.759 came out, Manhunter came out. I saw her in this, 129 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:18.040 I saw in a bunch of other little things like 130 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:21.040 around that time, and I thought, here she goes. And 131 00:07:21.079 --> 00:07:23.480 then she dropped off the face of the earth forever. 132 00:07:24.079 --> 00:07:28.120 And I couldn't figure out why, because she's retired. 133 00:07:28.680 --> 00:07:30.199 Is that what happened in eighty seven? 134 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:33.480 In two thousand and wow, one. 135 00:07:33.399 --> 00:07:35.519 Year after that movie you were talking about Mike, the 136 00:07:35.560 --> 00:07:38.560 one that sounds like one of those movies made by those. 137 00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:40.120 Of the guys Reeberg and Seltzer. 138 00:07:40.360 --> 00:07:43.040 Seltzer, Yeah, maybe, you know, maybe maybe she was a 139 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:45.920 theater actress and just sort of returned to the stage 140 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:48.639 for that period of time. But we were robbed of 141 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:52.079 a lot of great cinema from Kim Grease because she's 142 00:07:52.279 --> 00:07:55.040 this is one of the best performances of the series. 143 00:07:55.680 --> 00:07:59.639 She carries this with virtue, very little dialogue, and it's 144 00:07:59.680 --> 00:08:02.920 just all she's in every frame basically, and it's never 145 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:05.879 an interesting and I wanted to know more about the character, 146 00:08:06.040 --> 00:08:07.879 and I wanted to know more about her story. 147 00:08:08.360 --> 00:08:12.279 It reminded me a lot of in my skin, just 148 00:08:12.279 --> 00:08:16.040 that kind of distance between the people, and just that 149 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:19.319 even though she's giving us a voice over, she's not 150 00:08:19.519 --> 00:08:22.680 over explaining things, and just this whole idea of she 151 00:08:22.920 --> 00:08:25.680 has to be at a distance because if she starts 152 00:08:25.680 --> 00:08:28.319 to feel like the humans, maybe she won't be allowed 153 00:08:28.319 --> 00:08:30.879 to go back to her planet, you know, just that 154 00:08:30.959 --> 00:08:34.279 whole I have to be colder, though, I really wanted 155 00:08:34.279 --> 00:08:37.039 to experience what's going on with these creatures that are 156 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:39.480 all around me. I mean, she doesn't, you know, suck 157 00:08:39.519 --> 00:08:41.919 the souls out of anybody, or you know, turn into 158 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:44.600 black oo or anything. But I just really felt that 159 00:08:44.679 --> 00:08:48.840 kind of more observational type of alien. And I'm glad 160 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:50.879 too that it was a woman alien that it wasn't 161 00:08:50.879 --> 00:08:52.960 a male alien because it's just Okay, we've seen that 162 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:56.120 a thousand times. But here we have this female alien 163 00:08:56.679 --> 00:09:00.320 and you know, she's getting approached by this guy everything. 164 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:02.279 And again I was like, well, she could you know, 165 00:09:03.039 --> 00:09:05.399 attach her suckers to this guy, draw it out of 166 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:08.440 a spinal juice or something. I don't know, but they 167 00:09:08.639 --> 00:09:12.039 just treated it like you said, she's an alien. But 168 00:09:12.279 --> 00:09:13.080 is she an alien? 169 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:14.240 Is she just a person? 170 00:09:14.480 --> 00:09:17.639 Because so often we all feel alien, we all feel 171 00:09:17.679 --> 00:09:21.039 like we're on the outside, and she expresses that and 172 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:23.399 this episode expresses it so beautifully. 173 00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:26.240 Yeah, this could have been the moment she got out 174 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:28.480 of the asylum, you know, like she could have had 175 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:30.960 a psychotic break ten minutes before the episode began. 176 00:09:31.840 --> 00:09:33.360 That's and that's my thinking. 177 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:35.519 And again that's not my explanation for it, but I 178 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:37.919 love that there is that level of ambiguity to it 179 00:09:38.360 --> 00:09:41.120 that does allow you to be like, well, it doesn't 180 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:43.320 necessarily need to be that she's an alien for this 181 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:45.279 to work. It just needs to be that she feels 182 00:09:45.320 --> 00:09:48.639 alienated and on her own and alone. I mean, you 183 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:51.639 know the ending, you know monologue where she talks about solitude, 184 00:09:51.679 --> 00:09:53.799 like that's you know, it's heartbreaking, you know, and it 185 00:09:53.840 --> 00:09:56.279 but it's also true, like it's the truth, and that's 186 00:09:56.679 --> 00:10:00.000 we haven't really seen episodes of any of these shows. 187 00:10:00.200 --> 00:10:03.240 Was that really cut to that core of human emotion 188 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:07.000 and being the way that this episode does. And I 189 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:09.840 don't know, appreciated it so much because it just seems 190 00:10:09.879 --> 00:10:14.200 so well written and well thought out and well executed. 191 00:10:14.279 --> 00:10:16.919 Everything seems intentional, and I appreciate that. 192 00:10:17.320 --> 00:10:19.679 The fact that there are no goblins in it prevents 193 00:10:19.720 --> 00:10:21.440 me I from calling it my favorite, But I think 194 00:10:21.600 --> 00:10:25.480 this might be the best episode of the series if 195 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:27.799 the series existed just to give us this, and then 196 00:10:27.840 --> 00:10:28.879 it might have been worth it. 197 00:10:29.399 --> 00:10:31.879 And I will say, to be fair, this episode could 198 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:37.000 have been and again probably should have been at Twilight's 199 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:39.759 on nineteen eighty five episode. It works more tonally in 200 00:10:39.799 --> 00:10:43.960 a show like that. This show actually tonally, this episode 201 00:10:44.039 --> 00:10:47.360 doesn't work in this show to your point, Father Malone, like, 202 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:50.840 I like this a lot, but I wouldn't. 203 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:51.279 I don't know. 204 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:52.559 If I said it was my favorite Tales for the 205 00:10:52.639 --> 00:10:55.039 Dark Sided episode, I don't think it would be because 206 00:10:55.080 --> 00:10:57.600 to your point, this show does kind of traffic in 207 00:10:57.679 --> 00:11:00.559 something that I'm a little bit more interested in overall, 208 00:11:00.600 --> 00:11:06.320 which is goofy horror, weird out there George Romero, that 209 00:11:06.480 --> 00:11:08.679 kind of stuff, Like I'm more interested in the goblins 210 00:11:08.720 --> 00:11:10.879 and the scaring children in your house at Halloween of 211 00:11:10.919 --> 00:11:14.639 it all. But this is something that feels so atypical 212 00:11:14.679 --> 00:11:17.639 of this show that it stands out, and it stands 213 00:11:17.720 --> 00:11:20.519 out more so than so many other things that we 214 00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:23.080 saw on shows that we're trying to do this kind 215 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:27.039 of storytelling and kind of you know, introspective human kind 216 00:11:27.080 --> 00:11:28.679 of emotional storytelling, because that's Twilight. 217 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:30.559 It's on eighty five. Was that's what it was really 218 00:11:30.600 --> 00:11:32.080 interested in overall as a show. 219 00:11:32.279 --> 00:11:35.480 I'm really curious if Andrew Wiener the guy who's listed 220 00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:39.360 as director, though it was it was Ted Gernshei was 221 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:43.159 listed on Wikipedia, but IMDb has Andrew Weener. I'm here. 222 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:47.399 He's got like a couple credits, but not very much 223 00:11:47.480 --> 00:11:50.559 at all. Was that an alias for somebody else or 224 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:52.960 just did he just not make that many things. 225 00:11:53.279 --> 00:11:55.720 I'm a terrible host because I don't know, and I 226 00:11:55.759 --> 00:11:58.200 wish he had made more because I loved this. 227 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:02.240 Yeah, same, Well, I'm really glad because I was just like, 228 00:12:02.279 --> 00:12:04.960 oh shit, what if Chris watches this and he's just like, 229 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:07.919 what the hell what we were you hitting me? Were 230 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:08.799 you pulling my leg? 231 00:12:09.519 --> 00:12:09.679 Oh? 232 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:10.120 God? 233 00:12:10.960 --> 00:12:13.120 Now this is I mean, this was you know, it 234 00:12:13.200 --> 00:12:17.360 was really impactful in a positive way. And again, it 235 00:12:17.399 --> 00:12:19.399 speaks to the human condition in a way that I 236 00:12:19.480 --> 00:12:21.360 wasn't expecting something like this too. 237 00:12:21.720 --> 00:12:25.320 I wish actually this episode had appeared in the first season, 238 00:12:25.600 --> 00:12:28.879 because had it done that, then it would have corrected 239 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:31.519 what you're saying, Chris, which is this feels a typical 240 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:34.039 of the series, and I think had it been more 241 00:12:34.080 --> 00:12:37.360 typical of the series, than the series might still be 242 00:12:37.399 --> 00:12:37.879 going on. 243 00:12:37.960 --> 00:12:38.440 Honestly. 244 00:12:38.639 --> 00:12:41.679 Yeah, yeah, I mean the show does kind of traffic 245 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:44.519 in the flights of fancy and fun, weird, cutting black 246 00:12:44.600 --> 00:12:46.279 sows of it all a whole hell. 247 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:46.519 Of a lot. 248 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:48.720 This is their word play. 249 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:53.080 Yeah, it really is. This is the home Man episode. 250 00:12:54.080 --> 00:12:57.559 What's the first episode of Crypt that it's the same thing, you. 251 00:12:57.480 --> 00:13:00.759 Know, the man who was death Yell, there we go. 252 00:13:00.840 --> 00:13:02.960 Yeah, speaking to the human condition in a way that 253 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:06.639 the show kinda never really ever did ever again, you know, 254 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:08.919 the Tales of the Dark Site has not really spoken 255 00:13:08.919 --> 00:13:11.559 to the human conditioned a whole lot, and Tales of 256 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:14.360 the Crypt never really did either, but they did one time, 257 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:17.639 and man, the one time they did it, it's pretty fucking great. 258 00:13:17.759 --> 00:13:19.480 I've been thinking about it for decades. 259 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:22.399 I know someone was asking me at the Horror convention 260 00:13:22.480 --> 00:13:24.399 that we were at With'ser Tales from the Crypt episode 261 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:26.399 was like the first one, isn't that a shame? 262 00:13:26.919 --> 00:13:29.159 I think I know who you were talking to, all right. 263 00:13:29.720 --> 00:13:33.279 Our next episode is Hush from season four, episode eighteen, 264 00:13:33.600 --> 00:13:36.840 aired originally on July the tenth, that's a month later, 265 00:13:37.240 --> 00:13:39.919 nineteen eighty eight. This one has written by John Harrison 266 00:13:40.080 --> 00:13:43.639 as John Sutherland, from a story by Zenna Henderson and 267 00:13:43.720 --> 00:13:46.639 directed by Alan Colter, back behind the director's chair after 268 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:50.519 writing a previous episode. This one stars Nia Lanning, Eric Jason, 269 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:54.200 and Bonnie Gallup, a boy inventor and his teenage babysitter 270 00:13:54.279 --> 00:13:57.720 or menaced by the boy's latest invention, a noise eater, 271 00:13:57.919 --> 00:13:59.240 which I think of this one, Mike. 272 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:01.879 We are with the fucking inventors again. 273 00:14:02.120 --> 00:14:05.759 They can't help themselves. But despite that. 274 00:14:06.159 --> 00:14:09.559 I this one. I found it to be pretty cute. 275 00:14:10.159 --> 00:14:14.639 I like the whole did you guys watch Teleteby's. 276 00:14:14.840 --> 00:14:17.279 Yes, Yes I did. Actually, this is the new New, 277 00:14:17.639 --> 00:14:18.039 the new. 278 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:25.000 Psycho News cousin fucking New New coming after you man. 279 00:14:25.080 --> 00:14:27.120 I mean that New New was already scary enough when 280 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:30.399 it was sucking up all those teletebbee the pancakes of 281 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:34.240 their eating. Uh, but yeah, here it wants to suck 282 00:14:34.399 --> 00:14:37.960 all the noise out and I love the sound effect 283 00:14:38.080 --> 00:14:41.759 of the noise being sucked out of things. And again, 284 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:44.159 you know we're talking with that last episode as well. 285 00:14:44.200 --> 00:14:47.039 It's not really Tales from the Crew, sorry, tales from 286 00:14:47.039 --> 00:14:49.799 the dark Side. It's you know, that one was, you know, 287 00:14:49.919 --> 00:14:54.639 pretty thoughtful and thought provoking, and this one is very 288 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:58.519 mean spirited. And you've got the woman coming home, you know, 289 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:01.720 because we've got the tea age babysitter and the boy 290 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:05.559 being terrorized by the psycho New New and yeah, when 291 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:08.240 the mom comes home, she gets the noise sucked out 292 00:15:08.279 --> 00:15:12.080 of her and we don't know exactly what that means, 293 00:15:12.159 --> 00:15:15.279 but it's not good. So yeah, I really enjoyed this one. 294 00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:18.639 How about you, Chris, the philandering wife I believe is 295 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:19.399 what was going on? 296 00:15:19.559 --> 00:15:19.960 Correct? 297 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:21.600 Is that? Okay that's the implication? 298 00:15:21.759 --> 00:15:25.440 Yes, no, not an implication straight up? If that that 299 00:15:25.960 --> 00:15:26.559 girl knew? 300 00:15:27.120 --> 00:15:30.759 Yeah, who you're talking to on the phone Pta meeting right. 301 00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:33.120 You guys say, Psycho New New, I would say, it 302 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:36.120 looks like a vacuum that the mugwamps from Naked Lunch 303 00:15:36.120 --> 00:15:36.720 would use. 304 00:15:37.480 --> 00:15:42.639 Is a whole Yeah, this is like one of vaginal It's. 305 00:15:42.480 --> 00:15:45.159 Like an asshole, like it looks like a sphincter, Like 306 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:47.360 it's a living sphincter. 307 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:49.039 At the end of this tube. It's disgusting. 308 00:15:49.120 --> 00:15:52.600 It's one of the best like creature things I've seen 309 00:15:52.600 --> 00:15:55.559 because when it pops out from underneath the bed, I 310 00:15:55.559 --> 00:15:57.360 couldn't tell you what I was looking at. And then 311 00:15:57.360 --> 00:15:59.840 when it started to kind of unfurl and unfold, like 312 00:15:59.879 --> 00:16:02.320 I think humans have a real hard time with stuff 313 00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:05.480 that's like really indiscernible from anything else you've ever seen. 314 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:08.159 And when it starts to unfold itself like that, I 315 00:16:08.200 --> 00:16:10.679 was like, I've never seen anything. It is off putting 316 00:16:10.679 --> 00:16:14.039 and it is upsetting, and I found the episode to 317 00:16:14.039 --> 00:16:20.360 be genuinely creep for as for as kind of in introspective. 318 00:16:19.039 --> 00:16:20.320 As the last episode was. 319 00:16:20.279 --> 00:16:24.159 In terms of emotional human like relatability and the solitude 320 00:16:24.200 --> 00:16:28.200 of it all, this is just creepy and gross and weird, 321 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:31.559 and it is kind of like a fairy tale esque story, 322 00:16:31.600 --> 00:16:33.960 and you know, the bad adult gets what they deserve 323 00:16:34.039 --> 00:16:36.480 in the end, and you know, they stop the monster 324 00:16:36.840 --> 00:16:39.080 and ends up, you know, sucking itself off, which is 325 00:16:39.120 --> 00:16:39.799 pretty funny. 326 00:16:39.960 --> 00:16:42.000 And I thought this was fun. I thought this was 327 00:16:42.039 --> 00:16:44.399 a lot of fun. So father, Mom, what about you. 328 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:48.039 I think this is a case where reviewing these episodes 329 00:16:48.080 --> 00:16:51.039 back to back and in comparison makes it a winning 330 00:16:51.120 --> 00:16:54.039 combination because it's like a roller coaster. The last one 331 00:16:54.080 --> 00:16:56.679 was so nice and uplifting, and this one is just 332 00:16:56.720 --> 00:16:59.960 a straight charge down the hill. Here's mom, here's the kid, 333 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:03.919 here's the babysitter, here's the villain. Let's fucking go. And 334 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:06.759 that does it as economically as any good tales from 335 00:17:06.799 --> 00:17:08.880 the Dark Side. I can't believe they're doing this at 336 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:10.920 the end of the series. I can't believe they're pulling 337 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:13.039 these out now, what the hell? 338 00:17:13.119 --> 00:17:13.839 God damn it. 339 00:17:14.240 --> 00:17:16.079 I thoroughly enjoyed this one. 340 00:17:16.480 --> 00:17:18.960 The fact that the mom is sort. 341 00:17:18.759 --> 00:17:22.559 Of philandering and it's all kind of played for goofs, 342 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:25.640 and she was so endearing when she got in the house. 343 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:27.400 I thought, oh no, they're not going to do it. 344 00:17:27.440 --> 00:17:29.559 Oh no, right, I'm watching tells them the darks God 345 00:17:29.680 --> 00:17:32.359 damn it, Mom, why didn't you stay out that? I 346 00:17:32.440 --> 00:17:35.839 thought the creature's fucking horrifying. Man, the little screams it 347 00:17:35.880 --> 00:17:39.200 makes when it kills things was horrible that it just 348 00:17:39.359 --> 00:17:42.480 sort of prowling around the house and every little noise. 349 00:17:42.640 --> 00:17:45.160 And I loved that at a certain point it started 350 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:48.640 zeroing in on the most subtle of noises, like it 351 00:17:48.680 --> 00:17:51.200 went after the televisions, not that it went after the 352 00:17:51.240 --> 00:17:55.200 refrigerators condenser, like I could hear that hissing under there, 353 00:17:55.200 --> 00:17:58.039 and it killed the refrigerator. Like, no matter what happens, 354 00:17:58.200 --> 00:17:59.160 that entire house. 355 00:17:59.039 --> 00:18:00.640 Is going to need newtronics. 356 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:02.599 I love how horrifying it was that the kid goes 357 00:18:02.680 --> 00:18:03.839 it can hear your heartbeat? 358 00:18:04.359 --> 00:18:07.359 Oh yeah, oh shit ah ah. 359 00:18:07.400 --> 00:18:10.079 That's when I was like, Okay, now we're actually cooking 360 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:13.359 with grease here, Like we're really we're putting the we're 361 00:18:13.400 --> 00:18:16.079 putting the screws to the characters in this episode. And 362 00:18:16.119 --> 00:18:19.720 I love when the episode goes that one step further. 363 00:18:20.200 --> 00:18:22.200 You know what, now that everything else has been exhausted, 364 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:24.519 we have their heartbeat. It's it's subtle, it can hear 365 00:18:24.559 --> 00:18:26.480 it enough that it's gonna go after your heartbeat. 366 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:27.519 Yeah, awesome. 367 00:18:27.559 --> 00:18:30.119 Like, I love that the episode took that into account too, 368 00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:32.839 because I feel like otherwise we might be asking that question. 369 00:18:32.960 --> 00:18:35.079 It's nope, we have it covered. It's perfect. 370 00:18:35.160 --> 00:18:38.240 It's it is a airtight episode in terms of logic, 371 00:18:38.279 --> 00:18:40.799 and it doesn't I don't need anything else explained to 372 00:18:40.799 --> 00:18:43.400 like where the vacuum creature came from, or how it 373 00:18:43.519 --> 00:18:45.599 existed or anything, just like everything was perfect. 374 00:18:45.880 --> 00:18:48.720 Yeah. It's a sweet little cat and mouse game where 375 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:51.480 our lead that does everything you would do, she doesn't 376 00:18:51.519 --> 00:18:54.359 not do anything, and there isn't a moment of screaming 377 00:18:54.400 --> 00:18:56.079 at her like do this, you idiot. 378 00:18:56.200 --> 00:18:59.440 She tries it and ultimately solves it. 379 00:18:59.519 --> 00:19:01.359 I think the way any of us did have thought 380 00:19:01.359 --> 00:19:04.039 about right, like just start I thought, just start tapping 381 00:19:04.039 --> 00:19:06.839 on the things back, like it'll figure out that it's 382 00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:08.759 the problem and then kill itself, which is what they 383 00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:12.319 eventually did. But the very setup that it can only 384 00:19:12.359 --> 00:19:14.920 be turned on and off with this remote control and 385 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:18.359 it kills its own remote control was great because what 386 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:19.480 a moment. 387 00:19:19.200 --> 00:19:20.440 Of dread in any horror movie. 388 00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:23.759 It's like, now you're fucking dead if you don't run now. 389 00:19:23.960 --> 00:19:25.079 I love this one. 390 00:19:25.240 --> 00:19:27.480 A great scare show from Dark Side. 391 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:30.359 And a great creature, like genuinely one of the weirdest 392 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:34.400 creature designs I've ever seen. Yeah, it's mugwump adjacent from 393 00:19:34.480 --> 00:19:39.000 Naked Lunch, which has really strange creature design like biological 394 00:19:39.799 --> 00:19:41.599 mechanical mix. 395 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:45.400 Yeah, it's an It's basically a nineteen fifties floor vacuum 396 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:48.160 that you would drag along with the hose attachment. But 397 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:51.680 they've built in this little bellows on the side that 398 00:19:51.799 --> 00:19:54.519 is breathing in and out, which makes it even more 399 00:19:54.599 --> 00:19:58.240 alive and a little more off putting. Yes, this look. 400 00:19:58.279 --> 00:20:00.039 Man. We've seen so many vam. 401 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:03.440