Welcome back to the TV Is Good podcast, where Kathryn and I loaded up on wooden stakes and crucifixes for a vampire double-feature.
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First, we talked about The Vampire Lestat (aka AMC's retitled continuation of Interview with the Vampire) and how we feel about Sam Reid's title character attempting to achieve rock godhood. We then paired that with an iconic vampire tale, and the creative high point of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: the Season Two two-parter "Surprise" and "Innocence."
We recorded this on Wednesday morning, and then on Thursday morning, I did a short audio/video pickup to fix a mistake I had made during the initial recording. By the time news broke that Buffy alum Anthony Head had passed away, it was too late to go back a third time to pay tribute to him in that format. Just know that we both loved him as Giles, and that it's awful to have lost him, Nicholas Brendon, and Michelle Trachtenberg in so short a period of time.)
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For next week's episode, we'll be checking in on Widow's Bay ahead of the delightful horror comedy's season finale. And we're pairing that with a philosophical discussion about how comedy is often the way to conceal horror when you're trapped on an island. In other words, it's Gilligan's Island time. To focus the discussion a little, we'll be using a pair of episodes — Season Two's "The Friendly Physician" and Season Three's "The Producer" — as our touchstones, but it's not necessary to watch either, or to even know anything about the series, before watching/listening to the episode. Though the theme song could prove somewhat helpful:
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