WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.679 --> 00:00:05.960 Way wait. 2 00:00:16.960 --> 00:01:07.640 A welcome back to Midnight Viewing, the Horror Anthology font 3 00:01:08.159 --> 00:01:11.200 the Horror Anthology podcast where we're this season, we're talking 4 00:01:11.239 --> 00:01:14.719 about George A. Romero's nineteen eighties television series Tales from 5 00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:17.920 the Dark Side. I'm Father Malone sharing the Midnight of 6 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:20.799 you with me? Are the projection Boots, Mike White. 7 00:01:21.159 --> 00:01:24.239 I say good riddance to them, the Dames, We're better 8 00:01:24.280 --> 00:01:25.799 off without them. 9 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:28.040 And the culture cast Chris Statue. 10 00:01:30.200 --> 00:01:34.480 Do you guys tried the gray stuff? It's delicious? Tone 11 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:35.640 ask the dishes? 12 00:01:35.719 --> 00:01:39.719 Oh my god, no, that's true. Tonight we are taking 13 00:01:39.719 --> 00:01:41.680 a look at two episodes from season three. Those are 14 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:46.079 Everybody Needs a Little Love and Old con Old Acquaintances, 15 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:50.519 Old Acquaintances. Everybody Needs a Little Love Season three, episode 16 00:01:50.560 --> 00:01:53.400 number seventeen. This originally aired on February the twenty second, 17 00:01:53.480 --> 00:01:56.680 nineteen eighty seven. Clearly they intended it as there a 18 00:01:56.840 --> 00:02:00.599 Valentine's episode. They missed the mark. This one is written 19 00:02:00.599 --> 00:02:03.840 by John Harrison, credited to John Sutherland, from a story 20 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:06.640 by Robert Block and directed by John Harrison, credited to 21 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:10.439 John Sutherland, again starring Jerry Orbach, Richard Port now Phil 22 00:02:10.520 --> 00:02:14.680 and Kowski and as estelle Teresa Jones. This is a 23 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:17.080 film noir account of a lonely divorced man who's a 24 00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:19.840 millionaire today as the creator of the real Doll. What 25 00:02:19.919 --> 00:02:20.680 did you think of this one? 26 00:02:20.719 --> 00:02:27.840 Mike, Oh, boy, mannequin's coming to life, but not really 27 00:02:27.919 --> 00:02:30.800 but kind of but yes, but no, but I'm talking 28 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:34.159 to the camera. Feels very what was that? Just crazy 29 00:02:34.159 --> 00:02:38.879 as a soup sandwich? Yeah, my god, I love Jerry Orbach. 30 00:02:39.240 --> 00:02:42.280 I really like Richard Port. Now what the fuck are 31 00:02:42.280 --> 00:02:46.479 they doing in this episode? This was? This was something. 32 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:49.680 This felt like a very old tale, maybe because of 33 00:02:49.759 --> 00:02:53.639 Block's influence. Block's original short story just felt very old, 34 00:02:54.240 --> 00:02:58.120 obviously setting it in film noir times. I don't know why. 35 00:02:58.439 --> 00:03:01.360 I honestly don't know why than maybe the show guys 36 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:03.199 wearing socks and suspenders. 37 00:03:03.400 --> 00:03:03.840 This was. 38 00:03:04.319 --> 00:03:07.280 I was not happy with this episode whatsoever, especially because 39 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:11.000 I could see everything coming a mile before it actually happened. 40 00:03:11.479 --> 00:03:14.879 And yeah, it just didn't do it for me. How 41 00:03:14.919 --> 00:03:17.080 about you, Chris, what'd you think of this one? 42 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:20.000 Has ever look at Jerry Orbach and think he just 43 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:22.520 looks like an anthropomorphized candle. 44 00:03:24.599 --> 00:03:25.520 On occasion? 45 00:03:26.240 --> 00:03:28.680 On occasion, It's really hard for me to see Jerry 46 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:32.599 Orbach now and not see his like half profile and 47 00:03:32.639 --> 00:03:34.560 not just be like that's the candle for Beauty and 48 00:03:34.599 --> 00:03:35.039 the Beast. 49 00:03:35.199 --> 00:03:37.960 God damn it, it's been years and we're obsessed. 50 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:48.000 I think this episode is fine. I don't know, two 51 00:03:48.120 --> 00:03:53.400 dudes hanging out with the mannequin. Just what, Like, what 52 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:54.439 the fucking what? 53 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:57.800 It? Just okay, reminder Sunday nights at seven, this is 54 00:03:57.919 --> 00:03:58.520 family hour. 55 00:03:58.599 --> 00:04:01.719 Go ahead, great, Oh it's a family hour, all right 56 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:04.719 if your family is fucked in the head. I just 57 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:10.000 I don't know what the intention behind this episode was, 58 00:04:10.599 --> 00:04:13.199 because by the end of it, I'm just like, ah, yeah, 59 00:04:13.240 --> 00:04:17.439 all right, so she murdered him and he got framed 60 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:22.199 for it, Like to what end? And who fucking cares? 61 00:04:22.399 --> 00:04:26.680 I don't know, Like it's for me. We've seen episodes 62 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:29.160 like this before, in both this show and other shows 63 00:04:29.199 --> 00:04:31.560 going as far back as Tales from the Crypt, and 64 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:35.079 they haven't worked anytime they've done them. And this is 65 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:38.439 yet another example of don't talk to the camera and 66 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:42.199 don't try to mix tones in a way that just 67 00:04:42.279 --> 00:04:44.439 doesn't work. I also would like to point out how 68 00:04:44.519 --> 00:04:47.079 many of these goddamn noir episodes have we seen of 69 00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:50.759 these shows that have not worked. Also, and also, weirdly enough, 70 00:04:50.759 --> 00:04:53.639 we've not only had noir episodes, but we've had weird 71 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:56.879 fiction and noir mixed together in some of these episodes. 72 00:04:56.920 --> 00:04:59.759 Because one of those things wasn't enough to fucking ruin, 73 00:04:59.759 --> 00:05:02.480 they to ruin two or three things at once. This 74 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:05.319 is It's a shame that this is Jerry Orbach's only 75 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:07.519 time on the show, because he's a great actor. I 76 00:05:07.560 --> 00:05:10.439 can sing really well too, but I found this episode 77 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:13.319 to be just meandering, even for twenty three minutes. 78 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:18.279 But they did mannequins wright in the after hours the 79 00:05:18.319 --> 00:05:22.079 old Twilight Zone episode because it was a twist we 80 00:05:22.079 --> 00:05:27.079 weren't expecting. Oh, she was a mannequin the whole time. Great, 81 00:05:27.639 --> 00:05:31.839 but this sorry didn't mean to interrupt your father alone. 82 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:33.079 No, no, not at all. 83 00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:33.279 I know. 84 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:38.040 And look, we've seen mannequins in every anthology series we've covered. 85 00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:41.680 In fact, it's curious to me now that we're this 86 00:05:41.959 --> 00:05:44.560 far into the third season of Tails from the Dark Side, 87 00:05:44.759 --> 00:05:47.240 that in each of the series that we've covered up 88 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:49.800 until now, by season three we've all seen the same 89 00:05:49.879 --> 00:05:52.680 couple of episodes. It seems by season three, you're now 90 00:05:52.720 --> 00:05:54.639 is when we're going to start really just hitting the 91 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:57.759 same tropes as all of the other series. Because now 92 00:05:57.759 --> 00:06:01.240 we've got our mannequin episode. The next one is in 93 00:06:01.240 --> 00:06:03.639 the next few episodes. Anyway, it's gonna, i think, become 94 00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:06.720 even more evident. This is set in the fifties because 95 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:10.839 John Harrison wanted to do a noir episode, clearly, and 96 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:13.519 it is shot well. He went to great pains to 97 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:15.839 light this whole thing, and it's good. It feels like 98 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:19.879 a nice little short film. However, you know what, I 99 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:22.199 was with it for a while because it's so weird. 100 00:06:22.879 --> 00:06:25.399 It's so weird for these two guys meeting in a 101 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:27.120 bar and hey, I want to go have a good 102 00:06:27.199 --> 00:06:29.959 time with a dame. Come with me. Now, I don't 103 00:06:29.959 --> 00:06:31.720 feel like doing that. No, no, no, it's not like that. 104 00:06:31.720 --> 00:06:33.959 It's gonna be different. And then so Jerry Orbach is 105 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:35.839 basically saying at the beginning of the episode, I don't 106 00:06:35.839 --> 00:06:38.360 want to go have a sex with a prostitute with you, 107 00:06:38.920 --> 00:06:40.759 and he's like, no, it's not gonna be like that. Instead, 108 00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:42.480 we're gonna go break into my store and we're gonna 109 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:44.360 steal the Mannikin and go back to that and like 110 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:46.720 at no point does he bail before they get to 111 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:48.439 the apartment. In fact, he seems to have a really 112 00:06:48.480 --> 00:06:50.920 good time in the apartment with the mannequin. I don't know. 113 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:53.839 These two guys are interesting characters to begin with, but 114 00:06:53.959 --> 00:06:56.680 then where do we go from there? Yeah, it's like 115 00:06:56.920 --> 00:06:59.839 he comes back and the guy's weirder and he seems 116 00:06:59.839 --> 00:07:01.959 more are attached to the fucking thing and then eventually 117 00:07:01.959 --> 00:07:05.959 a thing kills him and runs away. Uh okay, yeah, 118 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:09.120 I'm no fan of over explaining. But what did the 119 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:11.879 mannequin want? Why is it even alive? Did he imbue 120 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:14.399 it with life? We get zero here? 121 00:07:16.040 --> 00:07:19.879 Well, and then isn't there a twist that? What's the 122 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:20.759 twist at the end? 123 00:07:20.839 --> 00:07:23.360 The twist is that she comes in is the witness 124 00:07:23.399 --> 00:07:27.120 basically that's going to frame him. But that's there is 125 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:30.279 no twist. It's not like we understand something that some 126 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:33.319 piece of a puzzle that hadn't revealed itself up until now. 127 00:07:33.480 --> 00:07:37.160 It's just like she's shadowy silhouette girl, she's the witness. 128 00:07:37.279 --> 00:07:39.680 Oh it's the mannequin that was supposed to be the twist. 129 00:07:39.720 --> 00:07:40.079 I guess. 130 00:07:40.839 --> 00:07:42.240 Wow, it's not a. 131 00:07:42.160 --> 00:07:44.399 Bad twist, it's just completely unearned. 132 00:07:45.560 --> 00:07:47.160 Yeah, because we don't know who she is or what 133 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:48.199 she wants. 134 00:07:48.079 --> 00:07:50.879 Exactly, and we're just meant to look at that those 135 00:07:50.920 --> 00:07:52.319 couple of shots at the end of the episode and 136 00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:55.839 be like, oh, that's the mannequin. Okay, we just had. 137 00:07:55.720 --> 00:07:59.519 That mannequin episode. Wasn't a mannequin episode. 138 00:07:58.959 --> 00:08:01.959 Where retelling of that Twilight Zone episode? 139 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:04.560 Yeah, it was like that thing. It was that really 140 00:08:04.600 --> 00:08:08.879 super said ending where the guy was like, dull, you 141 00:08:08.920 --> 00:08:10.040 remember which one I'm. 142 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:13.639 Talking about with the Medusa, Yes, thank you. It wasn't 143 00:08:15.759 --> 00:08:18.959 kind of was, Yeah, she's treated with the conventions of 144 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:19.600 a mannequin. 145 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:23.600 We and recently we had a fucking noir episode. We 146 00:08:23.680 --> 00:08:26.079 had the guy who created that, John Hurd, creates the 147 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:28.480 portal and pulls the girl through, but he's in prison 148 00:08:28.519 --> 00:08:33.000 on trial for murder. Look, they lost the showrunner this year. 149 00:08:33.799 --> 00:08:36.879 That's kind of evident because nobody's comparing the stories and going, 150 00:08:36.919 --> 00:08:40.360 aren't these the same? Is this not too close? In? Like, 151 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:43.440 why are we having a second guy on trial recounting 152 00:08:43.480 --> 00:08:45.799 the events of that the strange events that led him 153 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:50.000 to this place? Like we shifted to a further season, 154 00:08:51.159 --> 00:08:51.879 right please? 155 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:54.279 It feels like we fell off a cliff between the 156 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:57.000 last episode and this episode. I honestly thought that we 157 00:08:57.000 --> 00:09:00.759 were headed in a really good direction this season. I 158 00:09:00.840 --> 00:09:03.440 was pretty happy, and then it just feels like, whoa, 159 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:06.120 somebody pulled the rug out. 160 00:09:06.519 --> 00:09:07.360 It was you, Chris. 161 00:09:08.600 --> 00:09:11.480 Oh what did I do? 162 00:09:11.519 --> 00:09:12.720 You know what you did it? 163 00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:13.120 Oh? 164 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:14.080 Your fault. 165 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:16.399 It's always my fault. I mean, at the end of 166 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:18.159 the day, I was the one who got the ball 167 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:20.360 rolling so long ago and wanting to watch Tales from 168 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:22.200 the Crypt, So I'll take credit for me. 169 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:24.480 Yeah. Man, we saw a mannequin episode there. We saw 170 00:09:24.519 --> 00:09:26.759 a mannequin episode in the New Twilight'swe in fact, we 171 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:29.080 saw a remake of The After Hours on New Twilight 172 00:09:29.159 --> 00:09:32.080 Zone written by Rock Neobannon, friend of the podcast. 173 00:09:32.039 --> 00:09:36.559 Friend of the podcast. He's name dropping Folks. 174 00:09:36.519 --> 00:09:39.480 Night Gallery that had a mannequin episode two. I had 175 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:43.879 enough robots anyway that they qualified as mannequins, enough statuaries, 176 00:09:44.799 --> 00:09:46.840 I don't know. I did not enjoy this one, even 177 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:49.559 though I love seeing Jerry Arbaka, I love seeing Richard 178 00:09:49.559 --> 00:09:52.080 Port now a man who was made to be in 179 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:55.320 period pieces like he should just he should be chained 180 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:59.120 up in those clothes because nobody does the nobody does, 181 00:09:59.159 --> 00:10:01.240 like fifties or six. He's better than him? Was that 182 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:03.240 not him and Barton Fink? But you know with the 183 00:10:03.279 --> 00:10:03.840 head on. 184 00:10:06.519 --> 00:10:11.240 Yeah, yeah, he's a killer. He's amazing and Orbach amazing. 185 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:14.240 I love watching that guy. He's just so talented, Chris, 186 00:10:14.279 --> 00:10:18.320 you're talking about the Singney talent and everything. Yes, he's great. 187 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:21.159 And when this started, like I was like, all right, 188 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:25.000 craze is soup sandwich. I don't need this whole directly 189 00:10:25.039 --> 00:10:27.120 addressing the camera thing, But I'll go with it. I'll 190 00:10:27.120 --> 00:10:31.679 stick with it. Sure, why not? Yeah, you know, yeah, 191 00:10:31.720 --> 00:10:32.039 go ahead. 192 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:34.639 One thing that bugged me because they don't make it 193 00:10:34.679 --> 00:10:37.320 evident that it's a confession or an interview with the 194 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:38.320 police that's going on. 195 00:10:38.440 --> 00:10:41.960 No, not at all. It's him directly addressing the camera. 196 00:10:42.360 --> 00:10:44.480 I thought. I did not think at any point he 197 00:10:44.519 --> 00:10:45.840 was talking to anybody other. 198 00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:48.279 Than me, right, And so maybe they thought that was 199 00:10:48.320 --> 00:10:51.399 gonna be the choice. But to that point, yes, I 200 00:10:51.440 --> 00:10:53.000 believe he was talking to me as well, because at 201 00:10:53.039 --> 00:10:56.000 one point he has a cup of coffee in the frame, 202 00:10:56.240 --> 00:10:58.240 and it's a ceramic cup of coffee. We might be 203 00:10:58.240 --> 00:11:00.960 in a diner, we're definitely in somebody's kid. Anyway, where 204 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:03.200 we are not is in the interview room of a 205 00:11:03.240 --> 00:11:05.600 police station. So that's like. 206 00:11:05.559 --> 00:11:09.360 They're not giving away at ceramic mugs in a police station. 207 00:11:10.440 --> 00:11:12.440 Just makes no sense at all. So that's dirty pool. 208 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:17.919 Yeah, is he is Portner Noy also the guy that 209 00:11:17.960 --> 00:11:20.240 says you want to see helicopters? Or am I mixing 210 00:11:20.279 --> 00:11:24.000 them up with a different guy from Goodfellas? I think 211 00:11:24.039 --> 00:11:25.559 I'm mixing them up with a different guy. 212 00:11:25.799 --> 00:11:28.879 Maybe I know he's Howard Stone's dad in Private Parts. 213 00:11:29.240 --> 00:11:30.360 Oh he's so good at that. 214 00:11:32.919 --> 00:11:36.000 He ordered that guy back on the microphone. 215 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:39.080 Don't be stupid, the idiot. 216 00:11:40.480 --> 00:11:46.600 Shut ups it up? Anything else on this one, guys. 217 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:50.000 No, I just wish it was better. He squandered all 218 00:11:50.039 --> 00:11:55.679 this talent and the mannequin effect was okay, I just 219 00:11:55.759 --> 00:11:59.039 kept getting vibes of Sean Young when I was looking 220 00:11:59.080 --> 00:12:03.240 at a Stell. But yeah, I just what a disappointment. 221 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:06.559 The mannequin did look a tremendous amount like a Stell, 222 00:12:06.679 --> 00:12:08.600 but then no mannequin would have looked like a Stell, 223 00:12:08.679 --> 00:12:12.159 so it didn't make any sense, all right. Our next 224 00:12:12.200 --> 00:12:17.639 episode is Old Acquaintances, and that's like old lang Zion Acquaintances. 225 00:12:17.679 --> 00:12:21.000 Season three, episode number eighteen, aired originally on March the first, 226 00:12:21.159 --> 00:12:24.919 nineteen eighty seven, Written by Edith Swinson, directed by Richard Friedman, 227 00:12:25.000 --> 00:12:28.600 starring Sally Gracie and Linda Thorson, It's a witch fight 228 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:31.320 to which his vie for control of a talisman over 229 00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:35.039 the century's taking turns, taking turns, wielding it a year 230 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:36.840 at a time. What did you think of this one, Chris? 231 00:12:38.440 --> 00:12:43.039 Is that what was going on? Yes, Jesus fucking Christ 232 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:45.360 talk about unintelligible nonsense. 233 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:48.960 Oh they didn't say that fifty times sixty times for 234 00:12:49.039 --> 00:12:50.080 you to figure that one out. 235 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:52.919 Aw Yeah, when the episode wasn't getting in the way 236 00:12:52.919 --> 00:12:55.440 of itself reminding us of what was going on constantly, 237 00:12:56.519 --> 00:12:59.679 I appreciate that they were like, let's write a bottle episode. 238 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:01.440 You have to go very far. They don't have to 239 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:03.440 do much, they don't have to go anywhere. It's just 240 00:13:03.480 --> 00:13:05.879 the two of these women beating the shit out of 241 00:13:05.879 --> 00:13:09.960 each other for twenty three minutes. Okay, I'm on board 242 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:19.080 with that. It just not that entertaining unfortunately for me anyways, However, 243 00:13:19.480 --> 00:13:21.639 I'm curious where y'all come into this, because for me, 244 00:13:21.759 --> 00:13:25.440 I mean, it kind of lost Steve. About halfway through, 245 00:13:25.600 --> 00:13:27.320 I was like, all right, I don't know. I enjoyed 246 00:13:27.320 --> 00:13:29.919 it well enough. It's better than last episode, that's for sure. 247 00:13:30.759 --> 00:13:33.080 I really didn't need it to do the flashback to 248 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:35.399 the first time that they met and had all of 249 00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:39.200 their stuff. I've already figured all that stuff out through dialogue. 250 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:42.320 And there's so much freaking dialogue in this episode. This 251 00:13:42.360 --> 00:13:44.960 felt like a radio drama, and I'm like, I don't 252 00:13:45.000 --> 00:13:47.600 need to see the live action of this. I just 253 00:13:47.639 --> 00:13:50.440 need to hear these ladies' voices because all they're doing 254 00:13:50.519 --> 00:13:53.159 is talking at each other. I will tell you that 255 00:13:53.200 --> 00:13:57.080 Linda Thorson very easy on the eyes, but Sally Gracie's 256 00:13:57.159 --> 00:14:00.480 voice reminded me a lot of Maureene's Stapleton. I think 257 00:14:02.879 --> 00:14:05.600 definitely a little bit of sand in the voice there. 258 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:07.759 But I thought it was really good, especially for a 259 00:14:07.799 --> 00:14:12.279 Witch character. Kind of gave Witch's bad name. So, you know, 260 00:14:12.519 --> 00:14:15.039 this whole thing. I think this is a very anti 261 00:14:15.240 --> 00:14:18.440 Witch episode, and I would like to file a report 262 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:19.240 with the FCC. 263 00:14:19.399 --> 00:14:26.000 Please you can take it up with the old Man himself, the. 264 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:27.480 Old old Scratch, Old Scratch. 265 00:14:28.799 --> 00:14:31.440 There we are, Mike, Hey, Oh, you owe me a 266 00:14:31.519 --> 00:14:33.360 Coke Old scratch himself. 267 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:38.159 Baby Linda Thorson not her first time on Telson Dark 268 00:14:38.200 --> 00:14:39.639 sent She showed up in season one and she got 269 00:14:39.639 --> 00:14:45.039 strangled by a telephone. That's right, Yeah, yeah, it's good. 270 00:14:45.080 --> 00:14:46.720 Good to see her back. She was good there, she's 271 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:49.360 good here. Both actors are good. This is obviously a 272 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:52.279 New York episode, just like the last one, drawn on 273 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:53.960 that talent of New York. I'm trying to think of 274 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:56.960 some good things to say about this particular segment. It's 275 00:14:56.960 --> 00:15:01.840 a little stage play. Two witches fighting over a fucking ambulant. 276 00:15:01.919 --> 00:15:03.720 One is worse than the other. I guess, I don't know. 277 00:15:04.240 --> 00:15:06.600 I didn't really care who one, not at all. 278 00:15:07.039 --> 00:15:08.840 No, I wasn't invested in one one or the other. 279 00:15:09.159 --> 00:15:13.279 They were both equally fucked and they both were enthrall 280 00:15:13.399 --> 00:15:16.200 to satan. They both get what they want. I will 281 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:17.799 here's the one thing I will point out, and I'll 282 00:15:17.799 --> 00:15:20.080 point this out just because on the over on the 283 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:22.799 other show, I was talking to HP and we were 284 00:15:22.840 --> 00:15:26.120 talking about Massachusetts colloquialism. So one of my favorites is 285 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:28.679 Light Dawns on marble Head, which is Marblehead as a 286 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:31.080 town and messages. One of my best friends. Gretchen lives there, 287 00:15:31.320 --> 00:15:33.399 and at the end of this episode, as she hefts 288 00:15:33.440 --> 00:15:35.639 the cat up, she says, I think you're going to 289 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:38.919 like it at Marblehead, and I thought, wow, that's coincidental 290 00:15:38.919 --> 00:15:41.840 and weird, and obviously Edith Swinton has spent some time 291 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:45.000 in the northeast. Marblehead butts up against Salem, Massachusets, which 292 00:15:45.039 --> 00:15:47.360 is probably the connection because they're supposed to be from 293 00:15:47.440 --> 00:15:50.559 Salem when the flashback. When we go to the flashback, 294 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:52.240 by the way, oh my god, the effects in this 295 00:15:52.279 --> 00:15:58.279 episode are so good, with the snap in cuffs and 296 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:01.919 then the twist and talisman and all the best that 297 00:16:01.919 --> 00:16:03.320 that fishing line can buy. 298 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:06.240 About to say you you, I feel like if our 299 00:16:06.279 --> 00:16:08.600 audience could see you, they would realize you were lying 300 00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:10.159 because you're a very convincing liar. 301 00:16:10.399 --> 00:16:13.759 Sir. Yes, yes, if this was a radio drama, you 302 00:16:13.759 --> 00:16:17.159 would have just everybody have been like really good special effect. 303 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:25.440 Oh okay, they're terrible, I'm sorry effects, very special yeah. 304 00:16:24.799 --> 00:16:27.320 And very special end being cheap. 305 00:16:27.399 --> 00:16:29.799 They were special, really needed that much. 306 00:16:31.080 --> 00:16:34.039 This is I don't even I don't really know what 307 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:34.559 this was. 308 00:16:34.960 --> 00:16:35.320 This was. 309 00:16:36.200 --> 00:16:38.600 Look, we maybe we didn't need a flashback if we 310 00:16:38.600 --> 00:16:40.759 could have just started in Salem and then ended up 311 00:16:40.759 --> 00:16:43.799 here at the museum, it could have been something. And ultimately, 312 00:16:43.879 --> 00:16:46.600 don't fucking I guess the last thing is, don't try 313 00:16:46.639 --> 00:16:49.279 and take an ambulant two weeks early, because Satan will 314 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:50.279 fuck you up. 315 00:16:50.960 --> 00:16:57.120 I guess. So yeah, yeah, again, I was having a 316 00:16:57.120 --> 00:16:59.759 good time at this season. What happened? I don't know. 317 00:17:00.159 --> 00:17:02.759 And even these Edith Swinson episodes, some of them have 318 00:17:02.879 --> 00:17:07.119 been particularly good, and I'm just like, what happened again? 319 00:17:07.519 --> 00:17:11.480 They're overtaxing poor Edith Swinson. She's always given so much 320 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:16.039 to this season and now now and to your point, Chris, yeah, 321 00:17:16.079 --> 00:17:19.319 this is probably we need a bottle episode. And we've 322 00:17:19.400 --> 00:17:21.799 spent this much on a budget. We've only got this 323 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:25.000 much left. Can we recycle some of our locations here 324 00:17:25.079 --> 00:17:30.200 and maybe one location redress it. 325 00:17:29.480 --> 00:17:31.000 Redress it four different times? 326 00:17:32.200 --> 00:17:33.119 Trying to be nice. 327 00:17:33.799 --> 00:17:38.599 Yeah, we're careening towards the end of the season, so 328 00:17:38.759 --> 00:17:41.400 it feels like they're just like, yeah, whatever, is anybody 329 00:17:41.400 --> 00:17:45.440 even paying attention anymore? Is anybody watching? Who cares? We'll 330 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:47.359 just throw some bullshit at the long and see what sticks. 331 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:54.400 And yeah, boy, these two episodes are just prime examples 332 00:17:54.440 --> 00:17:56.519 of bullshit being thrown at the wall that not only 333 00:17:56.559 --> 00:18:00.920 does it stick, leaves a stinky residue. It's like Mike said, 334 00:18:01.640 --> 00:18:03.960 what the fuck are you doing taking away all this 335 00:18:04.079 --> 00:18:06.920 good will that you fostered with us show? Like I 336 00:18:06.920 --> 00:18:08.559 would say, in a lot of ways, this might be 337 00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:12.359 the best show we've watched in terms of consistent quality 338 00:18:12.680 --> 00:18:16.160 over like time over quality or quality over time. It 339 00:18:16.160 --> 00:18:20.000 feels rather consistent, But all of a sudden it's is like, Nah, 340 00:18:20.920 --> 00:18:24.559 third season of the show just a fucking bath. 341 00:18:24.920 --> 00:18:27.640 Yeah, it's cratering, but keep in mind we do have 342 00:18:27.640 --> 00:18:31.079 another season coming off, so it might redeem itself. That's 343 00:18:31.160 --> 00:18:34.119 usually what happens, right, Is it limps along or no? 344 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:35.599 No, no, no. 345 00:18:35.680 --> 00:18:38.079 Lies that has not been our experience. 346 00:18:38.559 --> 00:18:41.359 No. Sometimes it's twice as fucking long, and it's like 347 00:18:41.440 --> 00:18:43.000 the night season is where it limbs through? 348 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:47.279 How dare you shoot it in Canada? Yeah? 349 00:18:47.319 --> 00:18:50.440 I was to say, where was this shot? Fucking Tangiers? No. 350 00:18:50.759 --> 00:18:53.519 Mercifully, this show remains in New York and Los Angeles 351 00:18:53.519 --> 00:18:56.160 for the entirety of its runs, so they don't cut 352 00:18:56.200 --> 00:18:58.839 those corners at least if it dips in quality, it's 353 00:18:58.839 --> 00:19:03.599 because talented people are fleeing for higher paying jobs and 354 00:19:03.680 --> 00:19:05.599 other areas of the entertainment industry. 355 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:08.720 Well, they're fleeing, all right, a fucking top speed. They 356 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:11.720 can't run enough, fucking fast enough away from the show. 357 00:19:13.160 --> 00:19:16.319 These anthology shows. I don't understand why they outstay their 358 00:19:16.400 --> 00:19:18.440 welcome so hard. 359 00:19:21.160 --> 00:19:25.319 Everyone loves money, Yeah, I I like money too. We 360 00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:31.880 should be friends, all right. On the next episode of 361 00:19:31.880 --> 00:19:33.640 Midnight Viewing, we'll be taking a look at the next 362 00:19:33.720 --> 00:19:36.559 two episodes of season three. Those are The Social Climber 363 00:19:37.200 --> 00:19:40.720 and The Swap. Midnight Viewing is a proud member of 364 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:43.319 a weirding way media group. Our theme song was composed 365 00:19:43.319 --> 00:19:46.519 by HP with an assist by Donald Rubinstein. Until next time? 366 00:19:46.559 --> 00:19:48.519 Where are you? Where can people find you? 367 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:49.799 And what are you working on? 368 00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:50.839 And all that shit? 369 00:19:51.200 --> 00:19:54.640 Mike, I wish I knew where I was. I feel 370 00:19:55.200 --> 00:19:58.119 I feel lost. It feels like I'm in a void, 371 00:19:58.319 --> 00:20:00.599 like I walk through a wall and them in some 372 00:20:00.640 --> 00:20:03.680 sort of other dimension. Yeah, kind of like you Waitingwaymedia 373 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:05.720 dot Com. I wish I had other stuff that I 374 00:20:05.720 --> 00:20:09.039 could plug, but yeah, Waitingwaymedia dot Com. That's the thing 375 00:20:09.279 --> 00:20:11.519 other than the one show that Chris and I do 376 00:20:11.640 --> 00:20:14.839 with Richard had them and occasionally father them alone. We're 377 00:20:14.880 --> 00:20:16.960 having him back for you darn soon here and that 378 00:20:17.079 --> 00:20:20.400 is ranking on Bond, which is our Patreon exclusive at 379 00:20:20.400 --> 00:20:22.720 the ten dollars level. End up. Come on over to 380 00:20:22.880 --> 00:20:26.160 patreon dot com slash Projection booth or patreon dot com 381 00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:30.119 slash Culturecast. That's Culturecast with a K and sign on 382 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:32.759 up and you can listen to quite a bit of 383 00:20:32.839 --> 00:20:36.119 us talking about James Bond films. It came in handy 384 00:20:36.200 --> 00:20:38.400 last night, Chris. I was at trivia and they had 385 00:20:38.440 --> 00:20:41.400 a whole bunch of anagrams, and I'm horrible at anagrams. 386 00:20:41.480 --> 00:20:44.240 They were all James Bond titles. So I just sat 387 00:20:44.279 --> 00:20:47.480 down and I wrote down every single James Bond title 388 00:20:47.680 --> 00:20:50.440 that we have covered so far and was able to 389 00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:52.799 provide that to some smarter people who were able to 390 00:20:52.799 --> 00:20:55.720 do those anagrams. But I played my part, so I 391 00:20:55.759 --> 00:20:57.039 felt pretty happy about that. 392 00:20:57.920 --> 00:21:01.519 Tom Hanks Autumn Shank. That's all I could think of 393 00:21:01.559 --> 00:21:02.440 with the anagrams. 394 00:21:05.640 --> 00:21:06.039 Rhyme with. 395 00:21:09.000 --> 00:21:11.000 Your ass or a hole in the ground. 396 00:21:14.240 --> 00:21:15.160 How about you, Chris. 397 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:18.440 You can find me in all of what I do 398 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:22.720 over weirding Way Media as well. Then Patreon and going 399 00:21:22.759 --> 00:21:26.200 over to Father Malone's Patreon because he's posting two episodes 400 00:21:26.200 --> 00:21:28.559 a week. Jesus putting the rest of us to shame. 401 00:21:28.839 --> 00:21:31.839