Talking Twisted: Episode 5

Welcome back to another episode of twisted talk metal radio.

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Where the where the metal is not straight. It is twisted.

Twisted.

Yeah, we straightened the metal.

It's twisted and gay.

Super gay metal.

Super twisted and super gay.

If you thought Judas Priest was gay, what about twisted? Twisted.

Twisted metal.

Metal talk.

Even more gay.

Yikes.

We are back for episode five.

Yeah.

Halfway through of the hit Peacock series that is sweeping the nation. Twisted metal.

Oh, it's sweeping.

It's sweeping, all right. And I will say.

I think this.

Is the best episode so far. Which the bar is on the floor.

So fucking floor low, that bar.

It's under the ground.

Yeah.

But I will say that this episode had a little more fun stuff. A little more fun.

It's certainly not good, but definitely not good. Marginally.

Little bit better.

Yes.

Which, I mean, at this point, that's all we could really hope for.

Yeah.

At this point, there's not much else hope.

This is directed, again by series mainstay Jude Wang.

She's out there, man. Jude, yeah. Getting things done.

She's twisting the metal, I guess. And it was titled Crossroads.

Is that it?

Okay.

I actually couldn't figure this one out.

Oh, really? CRZ RDS. Yeah. Crossroads.

Yeah, sure.

Which is such a heavy handed metaphor. And we'll get to it.

Yeah.

We'll get to what they did. The unforgivable sin they did. There are so many unforgivable sins in this episode. But I want to first start out by saying I counted every scene in this episode.

Okay.

And this episode was 29 minutes long.

Yeah. Shorty.

Well, I mean, they're all, like, around there, but twelve scenes in 29 minutes is too many.

I agree.

It's too many scenes. This episode moves like whiplashes between really three storylines.

Yeah.

There's three stories in this episode, which is weird, going from last week's episode that had one.

Yeah.

I still feel like this was completely reimagined in the edit with moving shit around because I didn't count last week's, but I know there were less than fucking twelve scenes. There's probably, like, six. And it's like going back and forth between just dragging everything out and scenes just never getting a chance to really get going.

Absolutely.

The third scene of this episode is and that's not counting the cold open. If you count the cold open, there's 13 scenes. The third scene after the main title of this episode is, I believe, 12 seconds long. Which is too short, of course. Too short. Stop doing it.

Yeah.

It's not doing what you think it's doing.

No.

Yeah.

So we come back. The show starts out. We come back and quiet and John Doe, our protagonists, are pulled over on the side of the road arguing again. And this is again, this points to something being fucked up and having to be fixed in the edit because we don't see what happened. But we hear they got robbed while they were pissing on the side of the road.

Right.

And they had to hunt down this vulture, and there's an upside down car and a dead dude hanging out of it. And they're, like, arguing like, it's your fault. It's your fault. No, you had to pee, too. Oh, nonsense. Just stupid. So either this was a way to save money and not film a car.

Chase I wouldn't be that surprised.

Or they fucked up the shooting of it and it wasn't salvageable in the edit. Right.

They had to add this to connect the dots between last episode. It feel like too much happened. Right?

Yeah.

So he goes in the car, and we learn that what was stolen was his CD case. It was very important to him. And we get a couple jokes about musical artists. We get the know he already has the DMX CD, dave Matthews Band pass. And then we come across the needle drop of the episode. The Hanson CD, the creepy little blonde.

Christian fucking trio of the Late Two thousand s, or early Two thousand s.

And Quiet, in a rare moment of vulnerability, kind of lets loose that she's a fan. She's a big fan so much that she even knows what track Mbop is.

Three, I think. Right?

Yeah. So then they start listening to Unbop and they're throwing knives and axes at a car tire. This is like the longest scene. This is the second longest scene in the show. And it's just the cold open.

Yeah.

And they're being cute, and it's like that whole thing cuter than throwing up. Because she's very good at throwing axes and he's very bad at it.

Yeah.

Well, he's throwing, like, a throwing knife, and he keeps hitting the inside of the wheel, and she keeps saying, you're not throwing it hard enough. Which she's hitting the tire with an axe, which is probably a lot easier.

But also it would bounce off of a tire.

Of course it would. Of fucking course it would.

But also he is, like, hitting it. He's, like, not hitting it with the blade, like the handle is hitting it. And they'll do a callback to this.

Yeah, they will.

And then they decide to split two. I didn't catch what these things were called. I'm going to say the equivalent is smearing off ices.

Yeah.

They find in this vulture's car, and they decide to crack him open. And he starts drinking his and all of a sudden, he's feeling a little woozy.

Yeah.

Well, right before he does, though, there's a real shared moment between them kind of just giving each other the googly eyes.

Yeah.

And then he drinks, and then he pulls a flower out of his mouth and oh, shit. They could not let the tension of her stealing those flowers last episode last for even one.

No.

They immediately have to release this tension, and she is poisoning him and leaves him a note and heads off to Topeka on her own. And then then we get into the episode proper.

Yeah.

The twisted metal logo smash cuts onto.

His fucking head, of course.

And I pointed it out. There is a bad I know we work in an industry. We're trained to hear them. But even there is a bad music edit they did in BOP. It goes from up to, like it's like they just were like, I just cut 10 seconds out.

And they did.

Yeah, they cut out the chorus.

It makes me wonder if the track isn't added in post and they had it in there as, like, a digestic track. And then there's a bad cut in there.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Good call.

Which would be very funny and very stupid of them to do that. But yeah, that could be it. And then we get into the first scene of the show which I honestly think this scene is less than a minute.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So we get like, a little aerial of Topeka, Kansas. And then Stone is in his office and he's rehearsing saying the word Laquacious.

He's got a word of the day calendar.

Yeah.

Word of the day calendar. Loquacious.

That Trope cannot die fast enough. It's been over for 15 years. Why are we still trying?

This also, is Laquacious, like, that complex of a word?

I guess, to him. He's a cop. They're dumb.

Yeah, I guess. And then his minions come in and saying some bullshit. And then he's like, did you find the milkman and the four finger girl? And they're like, no, but they'll pop up. And he's like, pop up. That's like leaving it up to chance. Find them. And is very menacing about it.

Sure.

And then the scene ends. That's it.

That's it.

That's the whole point of the scene is that he still wants to find them on the note card in the writer's room. That's what that card said.

Yeah.

And he'll say the word loquacious later on in this episode. So it's to set up that.

Yeah.

And then we're back at Hoover Dam and we hear a little jingle. Hear a little jingle coming down the road. And what is it but Sweet Motherfucking Tooth has arrived at Hoover Dam where of course, we have left know fan favorite Stu. Yeah, Stu's in deep shit at Hoover Dam.

He's in deep fucking doodoo.

But Sweet Tooth pulls up to the entrance and the guard's like, give me your oral. And of course, the joke that keeps on giving, he's like, give me your orl. And then sweet tooth's, like oral.

Oral.

Do what it is. So fucking forced. Fuck, yeah.

So fucking forced.

And then he's like, Or, I'm taking you in. And he says, of course. He gives him the quip. He's like, I think I'll bring myself in.

Yeah. Sweet taste.

And then puts the grenade in his mouth. Puts a grenade in his mouth and pulls the pin and tells him this grenade is very sensitive. He's fucking with him. And then he drives through the gate and the guard, of course, lets the grenade fall out of his mouth and it explodes and blows his head off. Okay, so this grenade has the quickest fuse of any grenade.

Quickest fuse of all time. And why doesn't he just the guard isn't handcuffed or anything. He could just grab the trigger, the spoon. Yeah, he could just hold that and throw the grenade away.

But he doesn't do that.

Well, considering how fast the fuse on that grenade is, I don't think he would be able to throw it away.

While it's in a second.

He let go of his hands, but no, he could find something or you could press it.

Oh, so you're saying to throw it away?

Okay. Yeah.

Find some tape or just hold it and be well, he doesn't know it has a quick fuse. Yeah, but god damn, that it's so unsatisfying to watch that scene. I hate that scene. I fucking hate that scene.

It's just cheap.

It's horrible.

Yeah, not very good. But that's the end of that scene.

Yes.

Moving on.

And then we go on to like I said, it's like a twelve second scene. And we see John Doe passed out on the ground, still, and a mysterious person comes and picks his legs up and drags him off. And that's the end of the scene.

Yes, that's the end.

Which, if you watch this show when you know what this leads to, I was thankful, in retrospect, that the scene there.

But I will say that there is no reason why this wasn't part of the scene. That continuation of there's no reason this wasn't just the beginning of the scene where that situation actually continues. Zero reason.

I think the only reason I can think of is it would have felt like a long time since we checked in on John Doe was probably some idiot executives thinking like, was he? Like, people are going to wonder if he's okay, I guess.

Or they felt like it was too quick to go back to Topeka because the River Dam scene is so short.

It's so short, right?

Either way, some really sloppy pacing in this episode.

Yeah.

But we go back to Topeka and the cops are talking shit, talking about how Shepard was killed and he was beaten off, and they're pissing on a dead guy, which is meaningless.

Meaningless.

It is meaningless. It's like, see how cruel they are? But nobody it doesn't give us anything. I hate this scene. The guy was shot in the head and had his hands tied behind his back, like fucking ISIS style, and they're just pissing on this guy and it's not even upsetting. It's just like lame.

It's just lame.

Yeah.

It's just fucking lame.

Yeah.

And they get back into their police cruiser and we see that Quiet has snuck in the backseat.

She sure fucking has.

And uses them to smuggle her into Topeka. And once they get inside the city proper, she kills the cops.

She does.

And steals their car.

She decides to throw away her only advantage, which is keeping her name quiet and not drawing any attention to anything. And kills them very violently and leaves a lot of evidence that something is up.

Yeah, absolutely. And then she's driving around and she starts hallucinating her brother, which is ah. I mean.

Yeah.

This is like film school shit. This is student film shit.

This is when you don't trust your actors your own writing, your own directing, anything you've done as a storyteller, you have to have an external voice to explain what your character is thinking. And it's fucking bush league shit.

Yeah. So they need him to remind her that he only died five days ago to reset the time frame.

Yeah, exactly.

Which is so incredibly fucking lazy.

And just fucking lazy.

So lazy. But then we go back to Hoover Dam.

Sure.

We go back to Hoover Dam. And Stu is in the DMV waiting room thing where he's about to be executed. But of course we know who showed up. Sweet chisel Sweet Tooth comes in and just starts murdering. And you left a note here. And I agree. He just says the things that he's killing people with. So he shoves a machete through the door and he's like, machete.

It's funny. It's actually really fun.

Yeah.

And then he throws, like, this woman that he uses a human shield and he's like, Woman's body.

Yeah.

And throws it at a guy. Yeah. And then chops some dude's head off and it flies in the air and he catches it and everyone claps.

Yes.

And that's the whole scene. That's the whole scene.

To me, this is what I was hoping for out of what they did with Sweet Tooth, which is like, just make him crazy in a fun way that he just enjoys being a fucking psychopath.

They give him too many lines is really what it is.

Yes, they do.

Talks too much.

Yeah.

They're trying to get the laughs out of the jokes as his dialogue they're trying to get the laughs out of his dialogue instead of getting the laughs out of how fucking crazy he yeah.

Like, I'll give you the perfect example of how they fundamentally don't understand the character they're writing. Later on, there's a joke where Stu is telling, you know, me and my friend were here, and then he threw me under the bus. And sweet tooth's response is oh, I've done that before. Crunch.

Yeah.

And it's like, don't need that. Don't need that. We see him be a psychopath. We don't need him to talk about how fucking crazy he is.

Yeah.

It kind of lessens it it's just.

Like every character is painted with a super broad brush. And the only thing you can be as a character in the show is that through every line of dialogue you have absolutely.

You can have no nuance.

None.

Yeah.

Which if it weren't so violent and the swearing and the subject matter, this is a show for children.

100% right. 100% correct.

That's really what the level of writing here. Yeah. And then that scene moves by super quick. And we get into the 6th scene of the show, which is we check back in on John Doe and we see who I have tagged in here. I've named him Crisco Pervert.

Sure.

We see a dude in a gas mask, jock strap.

Yeah.

And he's covering himself in Crisco shortening.

I mean, what the fuck?

For some reason. And he's clearly going to molest John Doe, who he thinks is dead.

Yeah.

It's what he likes.

And then John Doe, of course, wakes up and steals his knife and tries to throw it at him, but misses. Terrible.

Callback.

Callback, callback, callback to what? Like five and a half minutes ago, if that.

Yeah, really, really showing a lot of patience there. Fucking twisted metal, folks.

Yeah.

This character, I wanted him off my screen. I was so worried that this was going to be an episode long thing. I was so fucking worried. I was like, I hate this character. I hate everything about this writing. It's just trash.

Yeah. So then John Doe bum rushes him and the guy accidentally stabs himself in the eye.

Trope, trope, trope.

And then John Doe finds the note on Evelyn that Quiet was going to topeka. And then the scene's over.

That's it.

Yep. And then we go back to check in with Quiet, who is driving around. And then she clocks this stone statue in City Square. And by her sitting there and being a doofus, one of his minions finds her and realizes that it's her. So she drives off. And then of course, we're done with that scene.

Trash.

So that scene right in the trash. And then we get to what I think is the worst fucking scene of this show. Worse than crisco pervert. Worse know, pissing on the dead guy.

Yeah.

We get John Doe driving and he is looking at his passenger seat, having flashbacks.

Fucking god flashbacks.

This person he's known for like two days.

Yeah, well, five days ago, what's his name died. So four days tops, right?

Yeah.

And the flashbacks are so recently that it's just like a flashback to 20 minutes ago. It's so fucking stupid.

So it reminds me of a Brooklyn Nine Nine bit where Holt is like, I'm not judgy and brash. It's insane that I can't believe you would say something about that. He says something judgy and brash and then he's like, give me an example. And then it flashes back to like 2 seconds earlier and he's like, oh, I see. Which is a very funny bit.

That's a good bit.

Yeah.

This is not a good bit. This isn't a bit trying to be funny. He's trying to be heartfelt. It's like a heartfelt music. So he's thinking about then, but then he starts having flashbacks about his time in New San Francisco with Nev Campbell. And you might say he's at a crossroads.

Dear. Fucking Christ.

And then he's literally at a crossroads where if he goes straight, he's going to Topeka or he makes a right, he's going to New Chicago. And it shows him making the right to New Chicago. He's out.

You know what? It's not his problem anymore. He's made his choice.

It was literally never his problem.

No, it never was. She has done everything to make it clear that she does not require, need or want his help. And that should be it for him. He's getting to a point where he's kind of pushing it. He's trying to pushing himself on her.

He's kind of talking yeah. This is white Knight behavior.

100.

Yes.

Here white Knight. Yeah. He is clearly what? He's pussy starved.

Yes.

Oh, yeah. And he is just horny brain. This is horny Brain taken over here. And I wouldn't be surprised at this point they have got to sleep with each other within the next episode or so. Otherwise this show is nonsense. I mean, it's already nonsense, but it's even more nonsense.

Yeah.

Super nonsense.

Yeah. So then we go back to Topeka and Stone is getting his boots polished and making a joke about how he's like, I'm going to collect all the state quarters.

Which one didn't he have? Idaho.

Idaho? Yeah.

See, that's fucked up. Not to be a dick, but when those came out, which is like the late ninety s or something, I was collecting them. Idaho. You would have Idaho. You wouldn't have hawai. Because you would have the most time because they came out in two a year, I think.

Yeah. In the order that the states became states. Right. So the first one was Delaware.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

So he would have Idaho. I don't know.

Yeah.

He's a fucking idiot.

He's an idiot.

Then he gets a call that quiet's there, and he calls her out on the radio. She decides that she's fuck it. She's not going to do her revenge thing. Which is like, maybe you should have hallucinated your brother a little earlier.

Yeah.

He kind of talked her out of revenge. He was like, yeah, but what about fucking John Doe and what about it's okay, you don't have to be like me. We don't have to say bullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit.

Yeah, nonsense.

Yeah.

So while she's already beyond the point of no return, she decides she's going to return and then she can't because Stone knows she's there and calls her out on the radio and it's like, come and get me. And then the scene's over.

Yes.

Moving on.

Looking at this laid out, what it is, is they never have more or less than one full scene in between going back to. So, uh, then we go back to Hoover Dam. And Stu and Sweet Tooth are bonding.

Yeah.

They're murdering know. Well, he's not stu's not doing any.

No, he's holding the machete though, a couple times.

Yeah, he is holding is, uh he sees Mike, right. And he's like, I found Mike and Ikes. And then Sweet Tooth says I'm more of a skittles man. Which is so useless a joke.

Yes.

But then we see that Mike pissed.

Mean, I guess he's lucky there was actually Mike and Ike's there, right. Because he's like, what do you sir. Oh, my God. It's Mike. And Mike's standing there. And Mike's like, oh, shit. I'm dropped dime on me.

And he says, well, he did it on purpose. He did it on purpose to make Mike piss himself.

Oh, you think?

Yeah.

Okay. Because he sees him before he says the Mike and Ike thing.

He does. Yeah.

There's like a little bit of time. So I think that's what it is. You just try to scare him.

So he's pretty quick, though, I will say. He does. I'm feeling like the Bruce Philanth comparisons are getting more apt. Because that's thinking quick on his feet.

Like he saw truly Volantian thinking Valentine.

Thinking in that he saw Mike and then he saw the Mike and Ike. He's like, I think I know how I can do this.

Yeah.

I bet I can make him piss his pants.

Exactly.

Yeah.

So then Stu and Sweet Tooth have like a little heart to heart and decide that they're going to travel together. Not only are they going to travel together, they know where they're going. They're going to hit all the law outposts. Because Stu has the map.

Yep.

And then of course, because we have to be reminded every 5 seconds that Sweet Tooth is on screen that he is insane. Stu tries to get in the ice cream truck and Sweet Tooth's like, no, you sit bitch. Harold has shotgun. Harold, of course, being the paper bag that is his best friend.

Yeah, that's strapped in seatbelted into the passenger seat.

Correct.

And then he's like, what about all them? And there's like all these other people that he's freed that they've yeah, he's.

Like, you can free you'll have all the fans you could want. And he's like, oh, lots of fans. So bad.

Okay, it is bad. But if I could strip it all down and find the little nugget like Sweet Tooth and Stu and an army of fucking weirdos going I like this idea. Just going out post and just murdering people. That's fun for no real. Like they have no like other than Sweet Tooth bloodlust. And Stu's like, well, I want to keep him happy. He likes killing people. I'll go with him. And I want like the nugget there again, the card on the cork board. I like everything about how they executed. It is fucking hot garbage.

Yes.

And then we get to the final scene of the show.

Yeah.

And mind you, this is halfway through the first season of a show about car combat. And there has yet to be R1 car combat scene until now.

Yeah.

Where quiet faces off against Stone. And by faces off, I mean immediately gets her shit handed to her. And it's fine. This was the one where I was watching. I'm like, this is fine.

Yeah, I did.

Which is better than me being like, fuck yeah.

At least there wasn't, like, sitting in the movie theater, like talking about whatever. It was fine. It just was like it came out of nowhere in such a way that I was like, wait, how does her car have machine guns on it? It didn't seem like it was building to that. It felt like it came out of nowhere. I would have liked a nice knowing this was coming and getting excited for it. It was just suddenly he was like, at the end of the street, and she floored it. And then she hit a button and there was machine guns firing. And then he blew her up with a missile. And that was pretty much it for the fight right.

Then. But then in true white knight fashion.

Oh, god damn it.

John Doe comes out of nowhere and uses his Blood missile. Couldn't even hold it for a full episode.

Isn't that the thing you wait till the last episode to use thing that was a little built up. Like, you don't use the next episode on the not even top tier bad I guess he's the top tier bad.

Guy, but still, I fucking guess.

Yeah.

Boom. Blows up stone. Stone, of course not. Dead, I would assume.

Of course not.

And he pulls quiet out of the burning wreckage, and she's like, I told you not to come after me. And he's like, when do I listen to you?

Of course.

Which again, you just want to go into this writer's room and fucking slap everyone.

Slap them around.

You know what it reminds me? It reminds me remember Feast, drama grandma she owns?

Yeah, yeah.

She slaps all three of her kids at that's.

Yeah.

That's what you want to do with the writers around. Just smack, smack.

Yeah.

I mean, because it's just like, shut the fuck.

I am. I am on the side of the WGA. But this is doing them no fucking favors.

This was clearly written by Scabs.

The timing doesn't work out, though. I still think it was written by Chat DPT. It's going to come out when this in a couple of months that they had outlines and then Chat GPT wrote it because it's so derivative and fucking awful and just again, doesn't connect to itself. It feels like fucking AI wrote this piece of shit.

Yeah, it's like an AI who wrote, like, Save the Cat or whatever, right? And it's just like these are the things you got to do.

They got to happen.

This got to happen with no artistic integrity behind it. But then, of course, Quiet passes out.

Yeah, she's done.

And he does the thing. He does the thing.

Quiet. Oh, my. Quiet.

And then it cuts to black.

Quiet.

We hear one last quiet over black. And I don't want to go cinema sins here, but much if you go into the Harry Potter world, that's an unforgivable sin.

Yeah.

That in any piece of filmed entertainment. The final scream over black as you're ending the thing unfucking forgivable the force.

With which the editor slapped his space bar when the screening was over for this and turned around with the smugglest look on his face. And of course, the robot show running, this was like, it is good.

It is good. You hit the beats.

Yeah.

You hit all the beats that were needed. The emotional resonance for humans will be strong.

Such good editing. You did so good.

Again, it's the best episode of the series so far, but it's fucking and.

We have nonstop shit on it because it's awful. It is awful.

Again, I know what's coming next season. I can't be excited for that because unless it's literally they fire everyone.

Yeah.

Everyone involved in this. And I guess keep the cast. I don't know. I don't know if I can blame them. I don't know if I can blame them for these performances because they're not getting any help from these directors and writers. Like, what they have to work with is so fucking cheap. It's so bad.

I think maybe what I'm not sure of is that Last of US was so good.

So good.

It was such a good show. Like, surprisingly, you never expected it to be that as good as it was.

No.

Maybe this is just not a game that lends itself to being a TV show.

Except, okay, you probably are right? But when you go into it, you know that to be the case, right? So you don't completely change what it's about to fit some bullshit new thing, because then you don't even get people who know the game, who might be willing to accept something and go, well, I mean, it's a fucking video game about people driving up, blowing each other up.

This is for no one, right? Twisted metal fans furious, would have to be furious at this tonk of shit. And people who aren't twisted metal fans or have no idea about twisted Metal have these callbacks in these I wouldn't call them Easter eggs. They're so fucking obvious. They're Easter eggs for, like, toddlers, right? When your mom's like, oh, I hit it. And it's like behind the salt shaker, they feel left out because they don't get the handful of references.

Right?

So this is literally for no one. They are getting the worst of both worlds.

And the opposite happens with Last of US, which is you don't need to have played. The game. My wife loved the show. She never played the fucking game. She wanted to when it was over, and she did. But they treated Last of US as we want to tell this story. And they looked at the game and said, what's the story? And again, it's twisted metal. There isn't much of a story, but there's a little bit of one, and there's ten different ones. And you can do it. Not like this.

This just feels like a cash grab. This feels like taking advantage of IP. Anthony Mackey is trying way too fucking hard.

He wants these fucking comedic roles. He's like, why? I was funny in those fucking Marvel movies.

I had my funny line, just be Captain America.

Yeah, exactly. You already got it, dude. You already got the fucking you got the golden chalice or whatever you want to call it. You're fine. You're going to be in Marvel movies for however long this phase or whatever lasts.

Yeah. You don't have to do this. You don't have some budding comedy career after this, I promise you.

Right? Oh, my God. Yeah. It's so fucking disappointing. Every week, it's disappointing. And they just keep finding new ways to just fail. It's never the same way twice. And sometimes it'll be a little inkling. Like I said, the sweet tooth coming in, murdering. And I'm like, this could be a really fun scene with a needle drop. He's doing that, blah, blah, blah. I don't know what the thing is. But then it just ended, and it was suddenly just like you said it's. Oh, I've thrown friends under the bus.

Like, who fucking cares? Yeah.

Like, Jesus Christ, man.

Yeah, that's fucking awful, man.

We get it. He's insane.

Yeah, but lead in in a different way. Don't try this.

This show doesn't even trust its audience enough that they would realize that a dude who is murdering people and has a clown mask on is crazy.

Right? He has to stay.

Doesn't even trust you enough to do that. So if you were a fan of this show, you should be offended. You should be that the creators of the show think so little of you.

Yeah. I mean, you should be made sterile. You should be sterilized. You shouldn't be able to breed if you like.

I would. The cartoon rugrat more complex and has more depth than this show.

Fucking Bazooka Joe fucking comic strip that you get in a piece of gum has more fucking depth than the shit.

Yeah.

And we're only fucking halfway through.

And Riverdale a show famous for people just saying how they yeah, yeah. More depth than this. I like that show.

I've never watched it. I saw something funny about getting into it.

I've never you should take a look at the first season.

Fucking take a look at it. I don't give shit. Maybe I'll do it. We just finished episode five.

We got five more.

Five more and two more till, manzook.

I think so.

I know it's not going to be worth it. I know it's not going to be worth it. He can't fix this. No one can fix this.

No, this is a paycheck. This is a paycheck for everyone involved except for maybe Anthony Mackie.

If this is like his passion project, he's like, well, I do love the game, but I have a different take. I want to be a different character from outside the world.

Well, he's the only one trying.

Yeah, right.

Like Nev Campbell. Never seen a more phoned in role ever. I love it. She's my favorite character in this show because she literally showed up for the take. She must have been on set for two days.

And how excited was she in this episode where she got a fucking extra check for appearing in a flashback for.

The love and life? Hell yeah. Hell yeah, player.

I know she's in the finale, so she gets at least one more check, but she's like, three episodes, two days of work. I'll fucking take it. Yeah, I don't need that Scream money anymore.

Well, she did.

She turned down Scream. They wouldn't pay her as much. Yeah, fuck, that good on her. Yeah, but not good on everyone else who had to watch this hunk of.

I.

And they're close to New gonna we're just gonna get waylaid, what, three more times? And then we'll get there in the second and last episode, maybe two more times. They're just gonna get waylaid over and over again. It's just this crap that they just.

Well, he's got to get to New Chicago and then he's got to get back to San Francisco.

Oh, is that right? Oh, that is right.

Picking up something. So he's got to get to New San Francisco in the next episode or so.

Oh, and there's some mystery about what he's picking up, right?

Yeah, nobody knows what he's picking up.

Oh.

So they can now think that they're going to play into that going forward, but they haven't remind us of that in like an episode.

So I forgot every episode. I forget what he's doing.

Yes.

I forget everything. And I swear to God I black out. I try to watch these, but I will black out about three minutes every episode. I'm just like, we're talking about I'm like, I have no memory of that at all. Yeah, it's like skew.

What the part? What, now?

Yeah, the part with them peeing on the dead guy. I'm like, no memory of that. Yeah, no. Garbage.

Garbage.

Probably for the better. There you have it.

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And murder. We would probably get a huge spike in listeners because of all those true crimes.

That's true.

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