Complete with slow-burn intensity, matching silencers, and a killer tagline worthy of the paperback aisle:
"The couple that slays together stays together."
Just a little tribute to a show I think deserved a little more love.

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Listened to this on catch up. As James kept referencing the ‘phenomena’ of the whole family sitting down to watch TV all I could think of was how every member of my family would greet the word with a ‘do-doo do-doo-do’ following a shared watching of the following clip

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Charlie (Timothy Hutton) - Jesse Eisenberg

Looking back now maybe Elle Fanning is a bit too young for the rest of the cast. Any thoughts Bluesky?

There was a German TV show broadcast on the BBC in the 80s about a boy who sells his laugh to a sinister baron in exchange for the ability to win any bet. The dubbing was so bad I kind of assumed they’d also made the story up on the fly when recording the voice over.

There is an oft referenced Peter Cook quote that goes along the lines of pointing out how wonderfully successful the satirical cabaret clubs of Berlin were at preventing the rise of Hitler in the thirties.

Still satire all the way! If nothing else it makes the rest of us feel sane