Tales of the Unexpected S01E07 & E08 & E09 Edward the Conquerer, A Dip in the Pool, The Way Up to Heaven

Welcome back to midnight Viewing. It's so weird to say the actual name of the show. Welcome back to midnight viewing. I'm your host, Father Blone, and we are now engaged in a years long struggle to tackle Roald Dull's Tales of the Unexpected with me as always is my friend from the South, the man from the South. I'm just gonna keep calling him that for the rest of the series.

Mister Mike White, I would like your pinky in exchange for that new name. You got a baby, I don't need the one on the left. Tales of the Unexpected rand of Whopping nine series, topping out in one hundred and twelve episodes, spanning from March twenty fourth, nineteen seventy nine until May the thirteenth, nineteen eighty eight. Tonight, we are looking at Edward the Conqueror. Actually, we're looking at the last three episodes.

I should point this out. We're looking at episode seven, eight, and nine. The first season was only nine episodes. The next one will be sixteen, and then they'll do seven. It's real catches can with the entire series, I get the feeling that this was a series designed to plug holes in a schedule.

We have six weeks we available here. We don't know what to do. Give him some tales of the unexpected. First off episode number seven is Edward the Conqueror, which aired originally on May the fifth, nineteen seventy nine. Written by Ronald Harwood from the story by Roald Dahl.

This one was directed by Rodney Bennett, starring Wendy Hiller and a Joseph Cotton. Oh this is this is an interesting one. This is sort of an elderly woman in her elderly husband a run on a farm and she gets a stray cat comes along and she believes that it's the reincarnation of Franz Liszt. Not your normal anthology fair. No, no, I can't say I remember any of course, there's always the cat comes back type of thing, especially the cat that we've talked about, that cat that tortures poor Buster Poindexter and everything.

But from hell. Yes, but yeah, I wasn't expecting this and wasn't expecting Joseph Cotton's awful to pay in this episode either. I love Joseph Cotton man. Every time I see him slumming it, all I can think is you were in Citizen Kane. But he's committed.

He retains that level of Citizen Kane commitment no matter what performance he's giving, including this one. But yes, the rug is quite awful. Yeah, yeah, And then I guess his whole character motivation is there's some weeds and shrubs and things I want to burn. And that's what he does all the time. Every time we cut to him, he's outside burn and stuff.

And here's the thing. It seems like it's springtime, first of all, and he's doing a spring clean. He mentions he's going to clear over the yard and it's going to take a few days. Everything is green, it's all moss and shrubs, and everything looks like it's going to take forever to burn. And I think when the episode starts, he's standing there and it is smoldering, but we don't see a flame until long afterwards.

And yeah, and that is his only motivation. This is a man who lives to burn a pile of stuff in his yard. And don't try to deter him with your nonsense. Yeah, he is not putting up with anything from this old lady. And this old lady's pretty unhinged.

I have to say, just I talk to my animals. I know you talked to Ripley. I talked to Stella, of course. But yeah, she gets real invested, real quick with this stray cat who just shows up one day and sneaks into their house and won't leave. Now, I'm gonna put a link to the to the episode in the show notes so you can watch it.

But here's what happens. She goes out to talk to her husband, a stray cat follows her inside. As stray cats are wont to do. The husband is against it, he hates kats, doesn't want it in the house. It shows up unexpectedly in her upstairs piano room where she practices piano every day, and when she plays Franz List it's very nice, and when she doesn't, when she plays any other composer, it gets rather angry, to the point where it smashes all of the but the ceramic busts of every composer except Franz List.

And at that point the wife says, you are the reincarnation of Fran's List. Yeah, and unfortunately, like I know Hungarian Rhapsody number two, I don't know a lot of other lists stuff, So I'm like, is she playing List right now? I'm glad she announces most of the time. How about some Beethoven. Yes, here's what I have to say about Franz List.

Ken Russell made a movie about him. That's all you need to know about his about any his output. Were there any giant penises in that movie? If you could imagine such a thing? And again Russell movie.

I know, I know, right, Yeah, that's sorry. Listomania. He was the rock star of his day. I mostly more than anything. I just remember so Keith no Ringo Starr shows up as the Pope in that.

Oh, yes, absolutely, I haven't seen it in many years, but Jesus Christ, it's the most unhinged. But no, I mean, look, the Devil's is the most unhinged. Again, Russell movies. It's the great one of the greatest movies of all the time. But list Tomania is fun.

That's when they gave him too much money and too much control and just to go do what you do. I do encourage everyone to see it, though I don't think having the knowledge of that movie, or of the works of list in general, would make me immediately think that this new cat was the reincarnation of Franz List. I think at first I might think, Wow, this cat really likes franz List and that's something. Oh yeah, I would not just make that logic leap to this is Fran's List back in my house in cat form. Leave it to the English eccentrics.

I was wondering when we were going to get a full blown one, and like this episode is just dedicated to it, because at that point, like when she goes and gets Joseph Cotton, I found myself putting myself in Joseph Cotton's shoes. Now, if I had just been out burning stuff and this stray cat, which we had already dealt with, look, I could imagine it getting into the house. But if my wife were to suddenly say this is the reincarnation of Franz's List and believe it utterly, and of course you love them, so you have to believe them too. But what's going on? Yeah, yeah, I would probably start calling up some medical folks.

He should be doing that research. But she's doing her research. And I do like the scene where she goes in is talking to the scholar guy who just seems to like to reshell books, and especially that he is so long winded that she eventually just fades and does an Irish goodbye to him. What a great scene, just filled with character details. At the beginning, Donald talks once again about how long it takes him to write a story, and little moments like that, you really feel it.

Yeah, and the fact that he's speaking with such confidence about this person was reincarnated? Is this person? It's always famous people as famous people. Beethoven was definitely Louis Armstrong, although there's some debate about that. Like I thought at one point he was going to burst into laughter, like I'm joking, but he did not, And you're right.

She was just like, I can't take this onslaught of information. Yeah, so I'm just gonna yeah, I'll see you later. Guy doesn't even say goodbye to him and just yeah, dips and Yeah. That was probably my favorite part of this episode because after that really goes down hill and I'm just yeah, I'm right there in the just of Cotton part as well, and I'm like, I would really be worried about my wife if she was coming to me holding this straight cap, being like it's Franz's list. I'm like, what is going on, honey?

Yeah. The idea that the cat would respond only to Franz's list should be the only thing she should have shared with her husband. Okay, so let's just jump to the end because this is a twist ending. Or is it a twist ending? I don't know.

Did he kill that cat? Did Joseph Cotton force that cat into a bonfire? Or where is it? As he said, the goddamn brambles As he was out there trying to do the work right right. Well, he's got that gleeful look on his face when it looks like he's killing the cat, and then when the cat comes back and he gets that incredibly frightened look on his face.

I'm like, okay, yeah, he thought that this cat was dead. And yeah, that whole thing of well, the brambles, that's why my hands are all scratched up. I'm just like, yeah, right, pull the other one. Yeah, Okay, I was trying to be I was trying to give Joseph and the benefit of the doubt. But yeah, it's really horrific too.

What's funny is when we watched Hammerhouse, like they were just so unhinged with the gore, and this one has been so restrained and in this sequence, it's basically just shots of her and then one brief shot of him with the fire lighting up his face, with that gleeful look that you mentioned, and that was enough to make me imagine the entire scenario. And good for the direction here. What was his name, Rodney Bennett? Like top notch, I thought all around, particularly because the entire fucking thing is shot on video, all the exteriors and interiors, which we remember we were saying like it was driving us crazy, the switching. As soon as they established the exterior was gonna be shot in video, didn't notice it again in the entire episode.

Totally agree. Yeah, I was like, oh, this looks interesting, just the way that this quality is, and I was like, oh, were video outside all right? But yeah, no, I was right there with it, and I was so glad because, yeah, I didn't have that little shock moment because they're dipping out in and out through this whole episode. Got to show just cott and burning that stuff whenever we can, so we are going in and out and yeah, like this cat's obviously an indoor outdoor cat as well. But yeah, no, it was very well shot and it was again tight twenty five minutes with a few minutes of Doll up front telling us how hard this job is.

We're used to goblins chasing children around like haunted houses, and this is the most gentle story I think we've ever gotten on midnight viewing so far, and it felt just as propulsive and interesting and as thoughtful as anything we've gotten before. I don't think it's as impactful or as fantastic. I can't recommend this like over something like fucking wordplay, but at the same time held my interest beginning to end and left me with questions. I was genuinely asking you those questions. Yeah.

No, I felt that it was very well written and well adapted. With all of these Doll adaptations, I'm just like, should I go back and read these? It feels like I should. Yeah, I want to, and I don't, but I probably should, because not only is Doll really good with the sort of plot twists and the characterizations and the dialogue as well, but his descriptions are as fantastic. It's like Bradbury, but you can adapt it for film, you know.

Yeah, Well, what's funny just talking about Doll. I was such a fan of his when I was a kid, and I remember loving, absolutely loving Charlie in the Chocolate Factory or Willy Wonka in the Fat Chocolate Factory. I should say no, it was Charlie in the Chocolate Factory. They renamed the movie to emphasize Willy Wonka, that's right. And that was one of the first times I remember picking up a book and sitting down and reading it from cover to cover, no breaks.

It was that engaging for me, and I was just I don't know how old I was, but I was so impressed with myself that I could read an entire very few pictures. He had the little drawings of oopa loopas and stuff in there, but for the most part, no pictures straight beginning to end. And after that I was kind of hooked. And it was James and the Giant Peach and some of these other stories as well. And yeah, he's got the goods.

Yeah, And it's so crazy when a particular voice grabs a hold of you and pulls you along, particularly through your youth. Yeah. And the marvel, of course, is that he did that for children's literature and was equally adept, if not more, with his atult fare as we're seeing here over and over again. Yeah. Now that video shoot when we got to our next episode, it made me wonder, I wonder if that's budgetary, because our next episode is one hundred percent filmed.

That is a dip in the pool. This is episode eight of a series number one. This one aired on May the twelfth, nineteen seventy nine. Again written by Ronald Harwood from a short story by Roald Dahl. This one was directed by Michael Tuckner and stars at Jack Weston, Gladys Spencer, god A, Spencer, Elaine Ives, Cameron Wait and There's one man whose name I'm going to mention, and Donna Fellows.

This is a story about an American gambler who bets on a ship and whether or not it's going to reach a destination at a certain time, and whether or not he can sway those odds. What do you think of this one, Mike. I had a lot of fun with this one. It's funny. I've been watching a lot of gambling stuff lately, so my wife was a little less than pleased when this turned into a gambling episode.

We had just watched Rounders the night before and she was pretty annoyed with the Edward Norton character, so she was kind of real so she was kind of annoyed with the Jack Weston character, but I like his desperation that he has. And Jack Weston is one of these guys where if you're listening to this at home and you don't think you know who he is, I think you're wrong, because go take a look at this guy. You're going to be like, oh, yeah, I've seen him a hundred times. He just would show up in so many different things, including dirty dancing. But yeah, he's great in here, and I'm really glad, thank you for calling out Don Fellows, who I was so happy to see him.

He must be one of these expat actors that would work over in England all the time, because I know that they shot a lot of things that he was in. Of course, he's what one of the generals that Zod is intimidating in Superman two. But for me, he will always be Colonel Musgrove of the Raiders of the Lost Arc. And I was just as soon as he started talking, I was just like, you mean the actual ten Commandments? Yeah, what's funny when if somebody says the phrase American ex pat actor.

I think of his co character in the scene, which is Bill Houtkins. Bill Hookins was if you needed an American in the seventies and eighties, he was going to be in your movie. And yeah, so Don Fellows is the other half of that, and yeah, Don Fellows whose voice constantly in my head the tennis development. Proceeding, Yes, I'm rapin, yes, yes. Right right, so yeah, yeah, the cast is great once again, shot fantastically a gambling episode and when he started, doll Interestingly, dal not only intros these episodes, he narrates the first couple of seconds of each, which was threw me for a loop, but I thought it was really welcome.

It was so jarring the first time. I thought, is this a character who the actor sounds exactly like a roal dollar? Is he telling? Oh? It is Roll Dall When he's doing his intro and talking about gambling again and how much he loves gambling, and I had the same thought.

I haven't been watching a ton of gambling things. But the series did start off with Man from the South, which is the most famous of his gambling story, so I thought, really, you're gonna dip in here again. Oh boy, I'm glad he did. And you know that desperation mentioned about Jack Weston. It doesn't show up until halfway through the episode.

Right for half this episode, I think he's just a happy, go lucky gambler. I didn't know that there was any intent behind it. Clearly, in this world that we're dealing with with Roald Doll, there's going to be something going on ulteriorly. But if this were a night gallery, it would have started with him shaking and perspiring with some guy saying, give us some money, kid as he's and he would have fled onto the ship. Exactly, Yeah, trying to escape from the loan sharks or something.

But yeah, here, yeah, he's more than anything. He's arrogant because he thinks he's got this whole thing worked out. I'm going to in this. I have to say, the BET's kind of crazy, this whole thing of like how long or how far the ship sails every day and you bet on these numbers and stuff and. Gamblers are fucking crazy night.

It reminds me of these markets that they keep playing where it's like, are we going to go to war with Iran or whatever? And then members of the administration make all kinds of money. Yeah, oh boy boy, that's the worst end of it. But in this episode, so you're traveling on a cruise and every day around after noon, say around two or three o'clock in the afternoon, the captain will make a prediction of how far they will get by noon the next day based on the current speed and the weather conditions and everything. Jack Weston, so they bet on that, and it's a pool of ten, twelve, fourteen thousand dollars.

It's not. It's not fucking chicken feed like, so you can bet the exact number and people bet. It's an auction too. That's the other weird part of this. It's right, I thought it was just betting.

I'll bet on that you can, like you bet at a casino, but it's not. You bet and you win the number, like the actual episode, five twelve PM or five twelve miles or five hundred and eleven miles, and you can bet an over in an under, which is what Jack Weston is counting on because they've got a storm that nobody saw coming and it's gonna slow them down, so he knows it'll be less than I can't believe how fucking tense this episode is. And it's just a genteel bunch of people sitting around talking to each other. No, I have to say that our friend Colonel Musgrove seems to be needling him had really hard. I'm just like, oh wow, and really just kind of turning up the heat on this guy.

And I was really glad because, like you said, the desperation isn't there at the beginning. He's mister I got to remember the name. I'm not going to remember the mammonic device, but mister bought a ball. And the way that he does each letter is be this, oh this, And I'm like, all right, buddy y, you've you have perfected that over the years. I can tell exactly what type of person you are.

And yeah, he's scoping out talking with Gopher up on the main deck and everything, just like give me a little bit of this, give me a little bit of that, gives them a tip, and it's just like alright, man, and yeah, it's like I said, happy, go lucky, and then yeah, to see that desperation towards the end and what oh so good, fucking horrible. Okay, first of all, the bottle ball thing is the sort of mnemonic device that he uses in the wrong right hands. It's the worst writerly thing, every right. I agree. Yeah.

I have a friend whose last name is talking to and anytime he's talking to someone to tell them how to write his name, he will say like, I'm talking to you with an N on the end, and they get it. So it felt so true. Now. The other thing is that the desperation as it starts ratcheting up. We realized that this was his last thousand dollars, and moments ago he was planning on buying his wife a car and taking care of everything.

And now he realizes that the storm broke long before he thought it would and they are right on time. There's no way going to win. It's going to be one of the other auction people, and so that desperation goes. Mike, let me tell you my one quick gambling story. I live in Las Vegas.

You can't live in Las Vegas and be a gambler. You can be a casual gambler. Hey, I've got twenty bucks and I'm gonna lose it anyway. I'm gonna spend this on a pizza. Let me just throw this into a machine and see what happens.

Now. I used to was a projectionist at a movie theater inside a casino, and this is back in the day, and you could very easily cash your paycheck at the cage. Just get it in cash, wow, which I did. And then I sat at a fucking machine and I lost my entire paycheck, which was my rent. Oh man, And in.

My last five dollars I won everything back a little bit more, but everything basically back. And that was the last time I ever gambled in any serious way. And so watching him starting to sweat, realizing there's really nothing he can do about this, and then what's great is Okay, maybe this isn't great. Maybe this is because we watch too many horror anthology series, you and I. But when Don Fellows comes up to needle him at the deck for the first time, and he's like, hey, I'm sorry, Belle, better luck next time.

Like my thought was push him over right now, right, and ye. Overboard absolutely, yep. Unfortunately, what we're dealing with isn't our typical anthology gambler who is a scumbag at heart. This is actually just a decent guy, yes, and so Don Fellows has to give him the idea. He's like, I thought you were I thought you were going to be jumping, like basically, you ought to jump bal and that's where he gets the idea to do this, and he's, oh, man, look look you can do it.

Obviously he could. My thought though, is Mike, because again we're both twisted, horrible people. My thought was, if you're gonna do it yourself, are they gonna give you the money? Right? Right?

Yes, That's exactly where I was going to as well. And I was like, well, there's no way he can do it himself. There's no way. He's gonna have to throw somebody overboard. Yeah.

And then when he goes and starts talking with the old lady, I was like, oh, she's gonna buy it. Oh no, oh gosh, because yeah, I'm right there with you. I'm like yeah, push don follows over and then I see this old lady. I was like, oh she she's gonna go with the drinks. This isn't gonna be good.

But then of course he's doing his whole like oh yeah, well I'm this guy, and he just starts over explaining things, and I'm like, oh, that's when the realization set in for me. What was gonna happen was. When he was just true much yeah, and he's looking to get noticed. What are you doing at the stern? Go to where all the people are and go, hey, everybody, look at me.

Whoa, I fell off. Here's another idea. Go to the railing where everyone is and say. Somebody fell over exactly. They would turn the fucking ship around.

That's what would happen, and then he would get the money. Definitely, he could just be a disembodied voice. Instead, he does the fucking stupidest thing possible. And it was such a fucking knife twist. Thank you for old doll.

Didn't see it coming. Sorry, I honestly didn't see that our hero was going to fucking drown man. Oh but the knife. The knife is just in it's twisted. When the nurse comes up and it's just like, oh, it's time for you to go inside.

And we find out that the lady that he chose to speak to is insane. Is insane. She probably thinks that she has a cat that is actually frans List. I was gonna say, they're really pushing a theme here at the end of the season of The Crazy Old English Women. I think he was flirting with me.

He was waving. He was. The bitter irity is everything that's crazy woman is saying is true. And the worst part is the nurse turns and looks and we get one shot. And because we've been watching, we know that one dot out there is him matter.

Nope, he's lost in the white Caps by that point, and that's it. That's to be found again. The shot they have that they got of the whoever is doubling for Jack Weston floating and watching the boat float away was a horrifying piece of footage. Man, that's a real big nightmare for me. Well, yeah, because you don't, like, it's not something that I think about every day, but just okay, Yeah, imagine you're dropped in the middle of the ocean.

How long are you going to be able to tread water until you finally have to give up? Good Lord, all he wanted to do was buy his wife a car. Jesus yeast. Yeah, that's what don't bet. Don't bet with money that you can't pay.

Yeah, man, he had to bet the whole thing to Okay, anyway, let's move on our ninth episode of the season. Our final episode of the season is entitled The Way Up to Heaven. This aired first on May the nineteenth, nineteen seventy nine, once again written by Ronald Harwood, and you know what, right the whole fucking rest of the series as far as I'm concerned, because he's doing good work. And it was based on the story by Roald Doll. Directed by Simon Langton.

This one starts Julie Harris, Angus McKay, Julia Watson, and Roland Culver as Eugene Foster. This is about a woman who always needs to be on time and a husband who does not want that to happen. This was a grinding, frustrating episode. This really killed me. I yeah, Andrea, my wife had no patience for this one, and I have to say, I would she get up and leave?

Oh what? That would be so wonderful to be able to do. I know I wanted to. I wanted to turn this one off because I was just driving me nuts because I like to be on time as well, and to see this motherfucker who's just dragging his feet was driving me crazy. He fucking walks out of the house and then looks up as if he's assessing the weather for the first time.

He's the only human being on the planet to have done it. Get in the fucking car, get down here and get in the car. Yeah. It This episode drove me crazy, and it was nice ceiling seeing Julie Harris in the hair because we had just seen her a few episodes ago where she kind of got screwed over with that fur coat and everything. So to have her back and have this eventually turn into a good thing.

But man, oman does it take its time to get there? It does. This is the more traditional Julie Harris kind of roll the mousey, put upon woman who's just aching to break against it. And I wish they had It's a good episode. Like you said, we do get there, but I too, am a We need to be on time for certain situations.

I cannot be late for a movie. I cannot be late for a plane. In fact, I will be hours and hours early for a plane. My late wife Jessica was exactly the opposite. She had this attitude of they'll wait, No they won't, No, one will wait, and then we'll be screwed.

Exactly. Yeah. No, we're always multiple hours early to the plane, and yeah, drives me nuts if I'm ever late for anything. So I'm always like, hey, I'm gonna be home at this time, always being very exact and stuff. So yeah, oh this drove me nuts, man, And yeah, this guy, I have to hand it to him.

The actor does a great job at dowdling. If doddling has ever been done better, I'm not sure I know where. He really can do a doddle in a great way. He does it so well that I don't know if it's deliberate or not. Right.

I did have a thought that the second time she's waiting for him to come to the car, well, you did marry this fucker. Yeah, yeah, you. Know that behavior is not new. If it was, then we would be dealing with an episode where he's trying to drive her insane, which was what I was thinking for the most of the first act. But I don't think that's the case at all.

He's just an asshole. Yeah, well, I was getting the whole thing too. So she is trying to get to the airport, and it's this whole thing of what they're closing up the house, right. I think it's a great episode for the last one of this series to be like, oh, we're closing up the house. They think of that over on Hammerhouse.

Yeah, yeah, no, that would have been a really nice way to wrap up that whole series. Yeah, doing all this. Okay, So I'm going to the airport. The husband's talking about going to the club and he's going to spend time. I'm there, great, do whatever you need to do, buddy.

But she's taken this air this trip, and of course I'm thinking, oh, she's going to visit her aunt quote unquote who has actually her lover and gives her this her coat. But no, she's The twist here is that the flight is delayed, and I just, like you said, we are involved in a lot of these anthology shows, and I'm just like, okay, was the flight going to the plane was going to explode? Is this like a some sort of final destination kind of thing. I'm thinking all these scenarios, but it's no, it's just an excuse to get them back to the house with another deadline. And oh it just the second time is even worse.

The second time is worse because she has to be her flight is at eleven. She wants to be there by ten, and he assures her when she walks in the door, I have a car ready for you. Okay, that's perfect. It's going to take an hour to get to the airport. That'll give her an hour, this very very nervous human being will have a good day.

And then the next day it's you have to drop me at the bank. First. Oh, when he started fumbling around for this gift I meant to give you. Oh God, yeah. Speak first of all, speak up, Alice Foster, give it to me.

Next time, let's go hit it. Yeah. She doesn't have the chauffeur. And that's the thing. The one thing I like about this episode is the chauffeur and when they're pulling into the airport for that delayed flight, her not knowing it's delayed because she doesn't have the app that tells you that the flight's doing and the husband starts doing this all this shit like oh, it's gonna be fogged in, Oh, this is this And he's like this the worst naysayer I've run across in forever.

Where what is your problem? You have to tear everything down. Meanwhile, the chauffeur is like, Nope, nope, we're already here. Nope, everything's good. Nope, I'll go, I'll check for your missus.

What a great guy. He's not there. The second day. It's his fucking cab driver. Yeah, And the thing is, yeah, the husband piling on with it, We're never going to make it.

Why are we even trying? Like it makes me want to just shove him out the fucking door, right. But then when she gets up to leave, he's like, say, tell so and so that I'm thinking of them, and it all seems genuinely affectionate there. And then as frustrating as the gift is, that also feels that. Also feels affectionate.

He doesn't seem to fucking with her at all. This is just a situation where this old old man in nineteen eighty nineteen seventy nine, this is his way of doing things. So I don't know, man. Nevertheless, I would have murdered him. Yeah, absolutely, I'm.

Going back in the house the fuck you are. Oh yeah, nope, I don't need that gift. Come on, let's go, let's go. Yeah yeah. And then it's this I didn't get it at first.

I didn't either. When she goes up to the door and she's like, okay, screw it, I'll go get this. Guy goes up to the door and opens up the little what do you call it? Letter slot and hears him calling, and I was because at this point, I didn't really remember her name, and so he just keeps calling out and I was just like, Oh, is he having an affair? Is he on the phone with somebody?

Yeah? So I really missed the point the first time around, and I was like, Oh, I got it. He was calling for help, all right. And then it becomes a tension game again, but a different kind of tension. Is he going to show up at the end of this episode when she comes back and has had her lovely flight it's done all these things.

Is she going to come back and find a corpse? Or is he going to be like, Darling, it's so good to see you again. The copy this is funny. The copy that I watched, I couldn't make out what he was saying. Ah, okay, So I didn't know what it was at all.

So when she comes back, all I could think was wait. Once I saw the mail piled up, I thought, oh, he's dead, right, gotcha. But there was no tension for me at all. I just thought everyone was having a good time. I think he might be saying Alice, Alice or something like it is.

I went back and rewatched it and isolated, and I'm like, oh, oh, he's calling for help. He's like he's injured at that point, and she's like, fuck it, I'm going to the airport. Yeah, okay, hit it driver. Oh here's the gift. I found it.

Yeah, and then she almost what she tries to send him, and then she's like, fuck it, I'll go myself, and that's when she so she's got the privileged information, which is really nice. Yeah. Man, as much as it was as frustrating as it was, like, what an ending, This is usual, This is not usual anthology fair, particularly not the end of a season. Seasons, you usually want somebody to suffer. This woman gains everything.

Yes, yeah, it was really nice because yeah, most of the time, Karma just shits all over people in these and this time it's like, good, this fucker's dead. That we even get to see his rotting corpse on top of the elevator, in the elevator with freaking bugs crawling around at him. I did great as soon as we saw that, though. I thought once she had opened the door, there will just been a way of putrification. Oh man, yeah, she's gonna have to have that house aired out forever.

I imagine she's gonna sell it though, and moved to New York with her. Now, clearly she's got to be well off. That's a fucking gigantic house. And that was an old, old moneyed man with their chauffeur and live in butler. Yeah.

Yeah, and there was the maid who was putting the covers over things too. So yeah, they had to have had at least three servants, which is wild. That made had the most severe bangs I have first seen in my life. You could cut your fucking hands. On those, like Louise Brooks.

Yeah, even though it was so frustrating, it was worth the frustration to make it all the way through it and see somebody get their come up and so here on time people. Yeah, I'm really enjoying the gentle nature of the show. It's no less vicious than anything we've gotten before. So keep it up, and we'll be keeping it up. In the next episode, we're going to be looking at the first two episodes of season two or series two, where all officially into the nineteen eighties with this one.

Those episodes are Royal Jelly and Skin. Until then, where can people find you if they're looking for you? Mister Mike White, Well, every thing I do is over at Weirdinglymedia dot com. And that includes the Projection Booth, which is a show I've been doing for about fifteen years now. Every week we look at a different movie, you kind of give some contexts, talk to some of the people behind it if possible, and yeah, just have a good time.

Actually, there's one thing that you can't get over there, which is over on my Patreon, which is patreon dot com slash Projection Booth, where we just are wrapping up the ranking on Bond series which Fought Them Alone, was on a few times and had a good time time at that. Yeah, that was a lot of fun. But we are I think the next episode is the last episode, and that'll come out pretty darn soon. So just kind of saying sayonara to mister Bond over at patreon dot com slash production Booth, how about you fotom alone. As the only living defender of Roger Moore's tenure as James Bond.

I would advise everyone to go over and listen to that. You're listening to Midnight Viewing, you know it's on the air. It's on twice a week Mondays. It's either Mike and I talking about an anthology horror television series, or it's me and HP talking of one of our fests. We are currently involved in Von Doomfest, getting close to Doomsday with the MCU, and go over to the Patreon page where we have our Fallout show, which I do with nu Coacoda Quantum, and we have our Star trek Away missions there, and we also have I don't know there's one other show.

I know there's a lot over there. Everybody go check it out. Until then, everybody try to enjoy the daylight.