Speaker 1: Welcome to the Parenting Roundabout podcast. I'm Terry Morrow and
Speaker 1: I'm Catherine hileco. As parents and parenting writers, we can't
Speaker 1: help but see everything through a parenting lens. But as
Speaker 1: our kids have become adults, we find ourselves more interested
Speaker 1: in getting caught up on movies and streaming than I'm
Speaker 1: going over the same parenting topics over and over.
Speaker 2: So since we're pretty sure we can find parenting wisdom anywhere,
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about what we're watching, what we
Speaker 2: thought about it, and maybe what we can learn from it,
Speaker 2: if only what not to do. Watch and listen along,
Speaker 2: and let's all make like we're doing something important for
Speaker 2: our families. Each Wednesday we bring you our thoughts on
Speaker 2: a newer entertainment property, and for this week of September thirtieth,
Speaker 2: we are discussing season four, episode six of Only Murders
Speaker 2: in the Building. It was called blow Up, and the
Speaker 2: amount of handheld camera footage was oh, is it giving
Speaker 2: you family enough to make my brain and blow up?
Speaker 2: But I persevered it wasn't as bad as the pilot
Speaker 2: of Lost. I will say that.
Speaker 1: But I didn't think about that though. There was quite
Speaker 1: a bit of shaky cam yeah, but well knowing when
Speaker 1: it was like the planted cameras.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly in Oliver's refrigerator. Yes, this was all very
Speaker 2: I mean, they should have called this one adaptation because
Speaker 2: it was all like what's real, what's fake, what's being filmed,
Speaker 2: what's a documentary, what's a what's fictional, what's who found footage? Yes,
Speaker 2: they called it the Blair Witch Project.
Speaker 1: Yes, I appreciate the gimmick of it. It was fun.
Speaker 1: It made me think of the of the episode from
Speaker 1: season one that was all from the point of view
Speaker 1: of the deaf character, and that was an unhappy comparison
Speaker 1: for this episode because that was yes, and this one
Speaker 1: that was like something I hadn't seen before, and this
Speaker 1: was like, I see it all right. But still it
Speaker 1: was a nice a novel twist, and I give them
Speaker 1: points for that. It got us not really very much further,
Speaker 1: but never although we now have a second victim and
Speaker 1: various other theories, and the fact that everything has been filmed,
Speaker 1: so theoretically was something filmed when Saz was killed. I
Speaker 1: don't know when when did whoever the mystery person, but
Speaker 1: the cameras in the rooms, and we also have the
Speaker 1: mystery of does Loretta just like maybe have the stomach
Speaker 1: flew or everybody else who answered her phone. It did
Speaker 1: sort of sound like stream going though.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know that's not the real final story there.
Speaker 1: That is No, that is not was not intended as
Speaker 1: an answer to his question. I do not believe whether
Speaker 1: it was another person or whether she was just in
Speaker 1: distress for some other reason, right, bad shellfish.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 1: Very happy to see an actor from my olden days done.
Speaker 1: I remember you, even under all that gray hair man,
Speaker 1: You're not that much older than me. Could maybe a
Speaker 1: little hair and eye something come on. But it was
Speaker 1: fun to see him and then to realize who he was,
Speaker 1: and maybe I have to go back and watch that
Speaker 1: scene again. But so we did get some scenes after that,
Speaker 1: and it's like, yeah, yep, I see him under there.
Speaker 2: I see him, Yep, I see him.
Speaker 1: I remember you, remember you decomposing all through the American
Speaker 1: Werewolf in London. I remember you. You were fun. But
Speaker 1: as we noted, interestingly, I AMDB aiding and abetting the
Speaker 1: mystery of who he was by not giving him a character.
Speaker 2: Decline to give him a name, and.
Speaker 1: At least I can see the producers doing that. How
Speaker 1: do we feel about IMDb the authority on who's playing
Speaker 1: what along with it? Well, I wonder if it will
Speaker 1: get filled in now that it's dropped.
Speaker 2: I don't know, because I remember we talked a little
Speaker 2: bit about this when we were talking about loss. Like
Speaker 2: if you if you want to know who somebody is
Speaker 2: and then you accidentally stray your eyes slightly to the
Speaker 2: right and the column that says how many episodes they've been,
Speaker 2: you find stuff out and like I remember in the
Speaker 2: second Knives Out movie, glass Onion, Yeah, one of the
Speaker 2: many characters if you looked up the actor and you
Speaker 2: got two names, Oh okay.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, that's not good.
Speaker 2: Was a big spoiler, you know, based on what.
Speaker 1: The Yeah, it may depend on whether how important dudentof
Speaker 1: winds up being as to whether they want to but
Speaker 1: we've seen.
Speaker 2: Did we see Well, they've all said that he that
Speaker 2: they've all said that that's who he is. But you know,
Speaker 2: he perhaps has some secondary identity that is going to
Speaker 2: be important.
Speaker 1: I guess in this show. No, everything's always straightforward. There's
Speaker 1: never any there's never any twists, no, not at all. No,
Speaker 1: no no extra bodies in the incinerator halfway through the season. Nope,
Speaker 1: Well who knew that spare body parts were such a
Speaker 1: potent way to identify the deceased?
Speaker 2: Yeah? And also like how it took them one second
Speaker 2: of having that box open to realize that there were
Speaker 2: two shoulder joints? Should there like did not the detective
Speaker 2: look at this at all?
Speaker 1: One would think? And I would expect the detectives to
Speaker 1: be much more eager to dig through the ashes and
Speaker 1: look at things than these folks, right, put it back
Speaker 1: in the box?
Speaker 2: Yes, but of course, And also, like you know, the
Speaker 2: detective said, well, I thought she'd be better with you
Speaker 2: than on an evidence stones that. Yeah, Like, isn't it
Speaker 2: still evidence they haven't solved this yet?
Speaker 1: Yes? And also are you allowed to just like take
Speaker 1: a cab away from the scene of a crime like
Speaker 1: they did? Right?
Speaker 2: I don't think they took a cab. I think they
Speaker 2: took Charles's car.
Speaker 1: Yes, but at any rate, at any rate, should they
Speaker 1: not have stuck around to talk to the police since
Speaker 1: theoretically somebody might have been shooting at them?
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Oh, well, fortunately the police know where they live, and
Speaker 1: we'll just stop by in person to give divine joy.
Speaker 1: Randolph a little screen time, Yes, which is funny with me. Yes,
Speaker 1: I have no objection. She is very fun and her
Speaker 1: her attitude towards them is more and more my attitude
Speaker 1: towards It's fine.
Speaker 2: Indeed, it's just hard to talk about this because you know,
Speaker 2: every episode is just you know, you just know that
Speaker 2: nothing really pertinent is going to be resolved that's revealed
Speaker 2: until the very end, you know, and the way that
Speaker 2: they suddenly decide, well, it wasn't the sisters, well, wasn't it.
Speaker 2: I mean they're pretty weird, they're pretty well just like
Speaker 2: with everybody, you know. They're like, oh, well then they
Speaker 2: couldn't have done it. Well, yeah they could have.
Speaker 1: So yeah, they're just running through suspects here, so it
Speaker 1: either has to be somebody we've dismissed or somebody from
Speaker 1: out of the blue. Right, we haven't seen much of
Speaker 1: jan I guess they've she's resurfaced, but right, was she
Speaker 1: just living in the tunnels in the building, not ever
Speaker 1: pop an ud Yeah, I kind of miss her, kind
Speaker 1: of miss Tina Fay cold. We have Tina Faye back,
Speaker 1: We'll swap you the Brothers sisters for Tina Fey.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, very similar kind of characterization of like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm an artist, or just like I'm a
Speaker 2: I'm superior. Yeah, I guess what she was.
Speaker 1: I guess Molly Shannon is doing that shtick this time.
Speaker 1: I mean that kind of indie stuff is a pretty
Speaker 1: pretty easy target to came out.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 1: But I guess we were doing. We were taken down
Speaker 1: Hollywood in Hollywood, and now we're going to take down
Speaker 1: little Hollywood. So you know what's going to be left?
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: And we've done Broadway and we've done podcasting.
Speaker 1: So it's all a scam.
Speaker 2: Nothing is real, no, nothing all.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen the pig in a while either.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he's on the opening credits. I think
Speaker 1: Howard is walking him in the opening credits.
Speaker 2: He is so but is he back? Is he living
Speaker 2: in Mabel's apartment? Is he?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Which he saw that? Got to see the dog again, right,
Speaker 1: The convenient burd plot purposes once again spotting yes dogs, Yes, yes.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, we need some parenting stuff.
Speaker 1: Well, we had the requisite old people don't understand the
Speaker 1: young people's slam.
Speaker 2: The tea, the tea.
Speaker 1: On the rug. Yeah, you know, come on, Yeah, when
Speaker 1: did that I have heard that, and then people just
Speaker 1: started saying it on a podcast I.
Speaker 2: Was listening to, Oh like spilling the tea? Yes, oh,
Speaker 2: I feel like that's been around for a little.
Speaker 1: While as it. I don't know. They make things up,
Speaker 1: but I don't. I don't believe I've ever heard used
Speaker 1: that in a sentence. I do sort of know what
Speaker 1: it means.
Speaker 2: My gen Z child has definitely used it.
Speaker 1: That seems to be about where it's that. But actually
Speaker 1: the Bobby Bones show used to have a segment called
Speaker 1: Let's spill the tea, There you go? Of the staff,
Speaker 1: one of them would say, tattle on another one of them.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know, there you go. So that's been
Speaker 2: a few years. Yeah, they're not gen Z. The Bobby
Speaker 2: Bones people are more millennial. I would they millennial? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I keep forgetting everybody.
Speaker 1: For well, I don't know. I had lost all track
Speaker 1: of generations. I know I'm middle to end baby boomer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all the rest of you are just one big one
Speaker 1: with young people making up say and coming up with
Speaker 1: technology making me feel that's right, and Martin and Steve
Speaker 1: just around being confused. Well, I had better a better
Speaker 1: time with this episode than I have with the others,
Speaker 1: but you know, I don't expect to be I would
Speaker 1: not do, not expect nor would not want to be
Speaker 1: doing this again. So what else they get?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we will have to see.
Speaker 1: I thought this was a very mom like thing from
Speaker 1: the detective. Was when they're all going, somebody's trying to
Speaker 1: kill us, and she says, as someone who's wanted to
Speaker 1: kill you the past three years, I understand, there's a
Speaker 1: very I brought you into this world. I wanted to
Speaker 1: outcome to that. And they do sympathize, Yes, I feel you.
Speaker 1: If she's she's apparently just been assigned to them, Apparently that's.
Speaker 2: She's just like, mind these mind these three yahoos. And
Speaker 2: you know, just.
Speaker 1: No matter what she's going to be the detective who's coming,
Speaker 1: right or else? She's given them notes behind the scenes, right,
Speaker 1: I think was supposedly what she was doing. Right. Mostly
Speaker 1: she just wants a camera on her too, why not?
Speaker 2: Right? And yeah, and of course we have the parental
Speaker 2: urge to document and spy upon, Yes, our children.
Speaker 1: That is very appealing. Where do you get those cameras?
Speaker 1: How do you hide them in someone's refrigerator? That's right?
Speaker 1: That was impressive. But the same time you also have
Speaker 1: that feeling of looking at your children who are very
Speaker 1: into something and going, these girls don't seem quite right.
Speaker 1: Perhaps I should get them dance lessons instead.
Speaker 2: Something other than whatever it is they're trying to do
Speaker 2: here awfully.
Speaker 1: And I don't know. Yes, we had a mention of
Speaker 1: somebody who eats the whole apple seeds, stem and even
Speaker 1: the little sticker children don't do that. A parenting tip
Speaker 1: of the week, watch how your children needs an apple?
Speaker 1: Do not allow that.
Speaker 2: I this is true. Had a friend whose daughter would
Speaker 2: do that, who would eat the whole apple. And she
Speaker 2: would go through these like jags where she would eat
Speaker 2: tons and tons of them. You know, she would eat
Speaker 2: like a bunch of apples all at once. Yeah. Those
Speaker 2: seeds have cyanide in them, so if you eat a
Speaker 2: lot of them, you can actually get sick.
Speaker 1: And she did this sounds like the plot for next season.
Speaker 1: Yea in the building. Look, somebody gave me all these apples.
Speaker 2: Yep, she actually made herself sick.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well she had to stop.
Speaker 1: That meant she stopped. Then that's good because that's a
Speaker 1: little that's the kind of things can get you on
Speaker 1: a TV show people not admiring you. But yikes, No,
Speaker 1: it was interesting. I've had kids who just like eat
Speaker 1: like one one layer around the outside of the apple
Speaker 1: and are all done.
Speaker 2: So yes, that is that is the more likely scenario.
Speaker 1: I think that's more typical. Yes, there's still a whole apple.
Speaker 1: I see it effectively peeled it with your.
Speaker 2: Spit, so now no one else can eat it. Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: I would find them like in the sink, you know,
Speaker 2: aiming for the garbage disposal, or in the garbage. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: there is so much Foodlet like, what are we doing here?
Speaker 1: That really bothers my husband. He will take it in
Speaker 1: eat the rest of it's got a spider, But I
Speaker 1: am a cut the apple into pieces, person, and then
Speaker 1: cut out the seeds in the stem and then eat
Speaker 1: the entire edible part of the fruit. So I don't like.
Speaker 2: That sounds a little more normal.
Speaker 1: It is. It's a little time intensive, but it means
Speaker 1: I have knives around time next season, only it's that
Speaker 1: lady who eats not apples with a knife. On we go,
Speaker 1: On we Go.
Speaker 2: So next week we will discuss the next episode. It
Speaker 2: is number seven and it is called Valley of the dolls.
Speaker 1: That sounds promising.
Speaker 2: Yes, But before that, we'll see you back here tomorrow
Speaker 2: for our weekly Roundabout roundup.
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