Too Scary; Didn't Watch - MISERY

Episode Date: March 17, 2021

Ceramic penguins, sledgehammers, and a breathtakingly beautiful pig - we're recapping Misery! We gotta give it to Stephen King - this movie is VERY GOOD. Join us to find out who's a dirty birdy.Misery is streaming on HBO Max.00:00 - Patron Shoutouts02:21 - Episode starts15:45 - Trivia24:39 - Recap starts Follow the show: @TSDWpodcast on Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram. Check out our Patreon for bonus episodes and additional content! Rate Too Scary; Didn’t Watch 5 Stars on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review for Emily, Henley, and Sammy. Advertise on Too Scary; Didn't Watch via Gumball.fmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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But for now you get to hear us talk about a very good movie. And here is this week's episode. This is Emily, Henley, and Sammy. And you're listening to Too Scary, Didn't Watch. Hi, everyone. Welcome to Too Scary, Didn't Watch, the horror movie recap podcast for those too scared to watch for themselves. I'm Emily, and I am too scared to watch scary movies. I'm Henley, and I'm also too scared to watch scary movies.

I'm Sammy, and I like watching scary movies, and I like telling my findings. Revealing your findings. Revealing my findings. Oh my god, you guys, I'm so tired. It was just daylight savings time. Telling my findings. Oh, God. We were just talking about this before we started recording, and we feel crazy, and we are wondering if it's worse this year because of quarantine. Yeah, listeners, call in. Tell us.

Tell us if you feel particularly affected by daylight savings as we do in this moment. It's also just reminded me of, so I'm drinking coffee. It's the morning and I don't like these beans that I have, but I'm trying to use them up because I bought them and whatever. But so I made coffee this morning and and i tasted it and i was like oh it sucks i like hated it immediately i've made it better but i i took a sip was like oh this is bad and then was like oh my god oh my god do i have covid because our friend who had covid one of the things she told me was it made coffee taste really bad and i don't know bad in what way she lost her taste buds like her sense of smell but she was like it made coffee taste really bad

so i was like oh my god and then i bad. So I was like, oh, my God. And then I like immediately went around my house and smelled all my candles. I was like, I can smell them. OK, it's just that I don't like these beans. OK, OK, OK. And we're fine now. But anyway, that's sort of like where I've been there. Wait, share share with us what kind of beans they are.

So we don't make the same mistake with purchasing them. Good, good, good, good. Well, the beans are fine. I just don't like them. Oh, all right fair enough they're too it's like they're just too bitter it's a super dark roast which i made i never get perfect and i made i thought i was getting a roast that i'd gotten before and i got a new one and i just don't like it very much yeah i'm not a fan of a dark roast i don't't like a dark roast. No, I've recently discovered I prefer a light roast. I'm a medium roast girl. Oh, okay. All right. All right. One for balance, one for balance. No, but the thing about a light roast is that actually has more caffeine than the other beans. More caffeine and more acidity. So that's the one thing I was like,

okay, the good thing about my dark roast is it has less acidity, even though I don't really like it. It's fine. I put a splash of agave and that really helped smooth it out. Agave? I know. I never do that. That's interesting. Well, okay, speaking of your thinking that you have COVID,

I went to the grocery store for the first time in a while yesterday. Which store? Tell us all about it. I went to Albertsons. Okay, a wild card. It's a crazy one. That's where I usually go. But I still get groceries delivered through Imperfect, so I only needed a few things.

So I bought a full roast chicken and a handle of gin and toothpaste and that's it yes i thought you were gonna say a ham a roast chicken a ham i felt like i looked so weird and then um as i got back into my car i had a hair in my mouth and just so mindlessly put my hand immediately right in my mouth after being in the grocery store. And like right, like fully in my mouth to pull out a hair. And I was like, God damn it. So now I'm certain that I have COVID too. Because I just went to a grocery store and immediately put my hand in my mouth after touching things. God damn it.

I don't know why that's really... That image is so funny to me. I took my mask off and was like, oh, there's a hair in my mouth. Also just the face you probably made the second you realized what you'd done. You're like, fuck. Fuck.

I really hope you don't have COVID. What a funny way to get COVID if you do I'd be pretty mad yeah we've made it we've made it so far without getting COVID a literal year we gotta make it just a couple more months you guys

we're in the home stretch I've been very much panicked about getting a vaccine and been like I'm gonna stand in lines all day every day this week I'm gonna do it I'm gonna do it and I'm going to stand in lines all day, every day this week. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. And I was just speaking with someone the other day and they're like, in a couple months, we're going to look back at this like vaccine panic moment the way that now we look at the

like can't get toilet paper and that like people were like, you have to get toilet paper. There's nowhere to get toilet paper. And now it's like, yeah, there's toilet paper everywhere. And that calmed me down a bit because I think that that's true. It's like there will be an effect soon and everyone will get vaccinated and it will be like, oh, right. OK, cool. Yeah. It's just that I want it right now because I'm a very impatient person.

I feel OK about not having it yet. I don't leave my house. I mean, I guess when I do leave my house, I put my hands in my mouth after touching things. So I guess I do need it. I mean, yeah, i'm not gonna change like i wouldn't change probably anything about my life if i got vaccinated i just would be like less stressed as i was driving around yesterday people are out people are out in the world they're out oh they're fully i was very surprised it was like a packed movie theaters open tomorrow

um or two days ago when this comes out. Right. Movie theaters open two days ago. And yeah, I just I'm getting anxiety about the world reopening. It's so weird time. I had I yeah, I had a weird experience recently where Tim and I drove to New Jersey a couple weekends ago to like go look at the beach. I don't know why it was like 30 degrees outside. We were like, what else are we going to do right now? But I really had to pee. And so and then we were right next to a restaurant. And Tim was like, why don't you just go see if you can use their bathroom. So I went inside. And I was like,

what the fuck? And it was packed, like packed, filled with people with no masks on. People were waiting. And I walked inside and the person was like, we've been waiting for like 45 minutes. You're not going to get a table. And I was like, OK, I should go to the bathroom. Trying to get a table here, you sociopath. And then I walked to the restaurant to use the bathroom and everyone was like not wearing a mask and kept looking at me.

And I was like the only one wearing a mask. And I was like not wearing a mask and kept looking at me and i was like the only one wearing a mask and i was like oh what's going on like it was wild it was really crazy it was also indoors i was like yeah well they can do that now i think in a lot of places at a certain capacity but it's still i was like yeah kofi doesn't care about your capacity i these people clearly aren't worried about getting COVID. They're just like, maybe they're vaccinated. It's going to be a very weird transition. It's going to be a weird next couple months.

I'm not, we're not out of the weird. I'm not mentally adjusted to it yet. And every interaction I have with anyone is going to be weird for a while. Oh, I don't know what to do with any other humans. Me too. Me too. My social anxiety is through the roof.

I can talk to you guys. I can talk to Joel. I pretty much can't talk to anybody else. I'm very aware of how much I can't do it. It's impossible. Listeners, we hope you guys are doing better than us. We hope that you are. Though I will say I did achieve a life goal

this week. What was that? It. Though I will say, I did achieve a life goal this week. What was that? It is that I made the perfect at-home Greek salad. What made it perfect? I found a dressing recipe. And for me, it's all about the dressing. I've never once purchased a Greek salad dressing in a jar at the store that tastes right. Never once in my life. It've never once purchased a Greek salad dressing like in a jar at the store that tastes right. Never once in my life. It's never right. And I love a Greek salad so much. And when you

order a Greek salad at a restaurant, a good Greek salad, it's like it's just right. And I am bad at making interesting salads at home. I just like put lemon juice on spinach and I'm like done. But I, you know, salads are important to eat and vegetables, especially now I'm like, I gotta like find a way to consume things that are good for me. And anyway, I found a recipe and that dressing. And so then I made a Greek salad and it was as good as any Greek salad I've ever had. And I, I just feel so happy. Wow. I'm so happy for you. Congratulations. Thank you so much. I'm really happy about it. I'm like really happy. Wow. I'm so happy for you. Congratulations.

Thank you so much. I'm really happy about it. I'm like really happy about it. Is it going to be a staple now? You're going to eat it all the time? It's going to be a staple now. Yes. Wow. What a good feeling when you discover a staple, you know?

What a great feeling. I love a Greek salad. Do you guys love a Greek salad? I love a Greek salad. I love a Greek salad. Yeah. Sammy, that doesn't sound like a love. Yeah. That was a Greek salad. Yeah. Sammy, that doesn't sound like a love. Yeah.

That was tepid. I would say that you like a Greek salad. I don't love salads in general. But I'd say Greek is one of my favorite salads. Okay. But it's just, I don't know. Salad sounds so bad to me right now. Sure.

I haven't had a salad in months is that bad i'm feeling stressed i eat vegetables no you really what no you eat quite healthy i would say you eat much better than me what i'll do is eat lemon juice on spinach and then be like great done for the day with that well you can't tell us obviously she's not telling us the ingredients for the dressing because she's about to copyright the shit out of that stuff. She's going to bottle it, sell it. We're always on the lookout for how we're going to become millionaires and maybe it's this dressing. And I think it's salad dressing. I remember one time my friend, I was talking about Paul Newman and she said, the salad dressing guy?

She didn't know he was an actor and it really made me laugh. Oh, that's amazing. I was like, yeah, I mean, he is a salad dressing guy. I mean, there was definitely a time in my life, I was much younger, but where I only knew him as the salad dressing. Also, he makes all sorts of stuff. Like cookies. Newman's Own makes cookies. The cookies.

Yes, cookies are a big one. That's pretty much it. Cookies and salad. That's pretty much it. That's the only thing I can think of. But I was very aware of that little Newman's Own. Yeah. Yep.

It's good stuff. Oh, Fig. He makes like his own brand, Fig Newman's. Oh, Fig Newman's. Fig Newman's. That's kind of like a cookie. That's a cookie. Yeah, Fig. He makes like his own brand. Fig Newman's. Oh, Fig Newman's. That's kind of like a cookie. That's a cookie. Yeah, it's a cookie. Should we talk about this week's movie? Yes. Yes.

Okay. Very productive conversation though, you guys. Good job. Yeah, this was one of our best. This has been great. This has been great. This has been a lot of fun. Our brains are tip-top shape and this episode is going to be good. It's going to be good. It's going to be good and I'm ready to do it.

This week's movie is Misery. It came out in 1990, directed by Rob Reiner, written by William Goldman, based on the novel by Stephen King, starring James Caan, Kathy Bates, Richard Farnsworth, and Lauren Bacall. It is streaming on HBO Max. And it was the winner of our first March Madness bracket. March Madness. As you guys know, we love sports. Henley calls them Sprots. Sprots.

Because of how much she loves them. Yeah, because she loves them so much. And I had never seen it. Have you guys movie this is a this is a very famous one yeah very famous never seen it never seen it never seen it is it technically i know nothing about it even is it a horror movie it feels like it looks kind of like it's a drama but it's a horror movie it's it i mean it's definitely got drama, psychological thriller aspects to it. It's more psychological, I'd say, than like. Straight up.

Straight up scary. Yeah. But it's very good. Do you guys know like the general premise? I feel like. No. Oh my God. Really?

Really? I feel like it's hard to not know the premise of this movie. No, I really don't think I. Maybe you'll say and I'll go like, oh, I heard maybe some of that. But no, I also like this is like one of Kathy Bates most famous roles. And it's like, yes, and not how I know of Kathy Bates, which is also interesting to me. Yeah. Yeah. She is great in this. Hi, friends. Welcome to Cocktail Hour. The best part of every week, day, however much you want to do it.

And this week's drink is a Dirty Bird, or as Annie Wilkes would call it, a Dirty Birdie. For this drink, you will need one ounce of vodka, one ounce of Kahlua, and two ounces of half and half. You will combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice, shake, and then strain into an ice-filled old-fashioned glass. So that's it. That's all you need. Buckle up. This one is a doozy fine Stephen King. You've done something right. We'll give you this much. Cheers. Got some trivia for us. Whee! First, I just, this is not related to this movie,

but Lauren Bacall is in this movie, and I just wanted to say, because I think about it every time I think about Lauren Bacall, that she met Humphrey Bogart when she was 19, and he was 44, and they got married three years later, and it's so gross to me oh man it's a different time and humphrey not a young looking 40 something no definitely not looked his age he looked his age oh god not that that helps because it's really the mind that is

the worst part of this this equation but still it it's like, no, he's a full grown-up man. Yeah, I'm fine with a big age gap as long as everyone is over 28. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I think you have to be like 30 years old to

grasp the concept of marrying someone 25 years older than you. um anyways so yeah i just have to start us off with that but now some trivia actually about this movie uh kathy bates did win an oscar for this role and james conn once showed up to the set hungover and all of the scenes he shot that day were unusable. Rob Reiner told Caan he had to do the scenes again because there was, quote unquote, a problem at the lab. When Caan learned it had nothing to do with labs, he offered to cover the money that he lost the studio. Imagine coming to work and...

It being that bad? It's like so expensive that you're hung over. And wow. Wow. Thank God I'm not an actor. That's tough, yeah. You can't go to work hung over when you're an actor. You really can't.

You really can't. And I don't know if I've told you guys, I'm obsessed with knowing when an actor is sick in a scene for something. It happens more on television than in movies because it's like secretly pregnant. I feel like happens a lot. Yes, I love that, too. But there's something for me about like a cold when you can just like tell an actor is doing their scenes with a cold. Their voice sounds a little bit different.

And it's just like, yeah, they feel like shit. And they have to, it happens. Every TV show you've ever seen, at one point the star is sick and I'm obsessed with it. I don't know why. I love being like, they're sick. And it's like, I don't know, it's like a little window into the,

I don't know how it got made. Yeah. My favorite is anytime Jon Hamm is sick during Mad Men, being like, Tondrae Brahe's cold. Tondrae Brahe's cold. So James Caan and Kathy Bates clashed over their acting methods. Caan believed in as little rehearsal as possible. Bates, with her theater background, was used to practicing a lot. When she commented to Rob Reiner that Caan was not attempting to relate or listen to her, Reiner told her to use

that frustration toward her character. We got a lot of casting what-ifs here. The role of Paul Sheldon, that eventually went to James Kahn, was offered to Warren Beatty, Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Richard Dreyfuss, Harrison Ford, Morgan Freeman, Mel Gibson, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Al Pacino, Robert Redford, Denzel Washington, and

Bruce Willis. So they really did it on James Kahn, it seems. Oh my God. Also like they all declined. No type type at all just like a man of a certain age um i read that people didn't want it because the character is so overshadowed by kathy bates's character and so all these men have fragile little egos and didn't want to and james khan is the only one who was like hey i, I can let I can let a woman shine. I'll let her shine so much. I'll show up hungover and not rehearse ever.

It's literally every movie star that was famous at that time. Yeah. It's like every single one. Most of those on the ego point. That does not surprise me at all. I'm like, yeah, right. Right. Yes. Yes. Yes. Well, also also I bet there's a snowball effect. I bet by the time they get to the last three on those lists, they're like, all the other people said no? Like, I'm not going to say yes. DeMera said no? Denzel said no? Uh-uh. I'm not doing it.

Right. Bruce Willis, however, later went on to play the role on Broadway. Oh, okay. On Broadway. And some casting what-ifs for Kathy Bates' character were Jessica Lange, Angelica Houston, Bette Midler, and Barbara Streisand

were all up for the role of Annie Wilkes. What a group of women. Yeah. But then there's a contradictory piece of trivia here that says screenwriter William Goldman first suggested Kathy Bates to Reiner for the Annie Wilkes role and said she was our first and only choice. Which is, I don't know what to believe now. I don't know what to believe.

Although maybe the studio had those other actresses in rotation and they really wanted Kathy Bates. Right. actresses in rotation and they really wanted Kathy Bates. Right. And then just the last little piece of trivia is that season two of Castle Rock is a prequel to this movie.

Lizzie Kaplan's character in that plays a younger version of Annie Wilkes. Oh! I've seen that season actually recently. Oh yeah? I haven't seen it. And this made me want to watch it. That's cool.

I love Lizzie Kaplan. So I watched the whole thing. But I will say I wasn't like the biggest fan of that season of television, to be honest. Yeah, I didn't. I wasn't blown away by season one. So I and it's I think anthology ish. So it's all different characters. It's complete.

It's almost completely different. It's still set in the world of Stephen King and the same town and all of that. Yeah. Right. But completely different story. Fascinating. Okay.

Well then I have a bit of an insight into what this movie is about. Cause I did watch that season. Yeah. You maybe got some set up there. You got, you can maybe tell us some more at the end. I like the idea of Lizzie Kaplan as a young Kathy Bates. That's like cool. She doesn't to me.

Her acting in this season is really like stand out. I mean, I can I can I can imagine you would either like hate it or love it because it's she really makes a choice as we like to say definitely makes a strong loves loves to make a strong choice but she has like a very strange posture very strange voice very strange way of acting um that's very distinctive throughout the entire season and part of me kept being like just act like lizzie caplan like stop it like what are you doing but also it was good and I liked it. Okay, let's watch this trailer.

You almost died. You have a compound fracture of the tibia in both legs and the fibula in the right leg is fractured too. And as soon as the roads open, I'll take you to a hospital. In the meantime, you've got a lot of recovering to do. There is nothing to worry about. You're going to be just fine. I'm your number one fan. My name is Annie Wilkes. I think one of my clients, Paul Sheldon, might be in some kind of trouble. In a way, I was following you. You were following me? Oh, Paul. I've read everything of yours. But the misery novels.

You must be a good man. Or you could never have created such a wondrous, loving creature as Misery Chastain. You're very kind. The presumption must now be that Paul Sheldon is dead. You dirty bird. How could you? Misery Chastain cannot be dead. Misery Spirit is still alive

I don't want her spirit I want her and you murdered her you don't think he's dead do you don't even think about anybody coming for you because I never called them nobody knows you're here and you better hope nothing happens to me

because if I die, you die. I know you've been out. Is this what you're looking for? Eventually, you'll come to accept the idea of being here. Annie, whatever you think I'm not doing, please don't do it. Annie, for God's... Shh, darling. Trust me. Whenever you think I'm not doing it, please don't do it. Any for gods. Shh, darling. Trust me.

God's sake. It's for the best. God, I love you. Okay, so we open on some shots of a cigarette a champagne glass and we meet our protagonist paul sheldon who is played by james conn and he is a he is finishing a manuscript so if you have protagonist as a writer on your bingo mark it it off. Check it off. And we see him finishing it up, writing the end. He pours himself a glass of champagne and lights his cigarette in a very routine type way. This is what he does when he finishes a book. He puts the manuscript in this

little leather bound suitcase that he has. And he looks very happy and pleased with himself and he starts packing up like he was looks like he was in kind of a secluded cabin to finish up this this book and writers love that shit writers love that shit and he gets in his car and starts driving back to wherever he lives normally, which we find out is New York. So he's driving from Silver Springs, Colorado to back to New York. Whoa, they have cabins in New York, dude. It's a really far trip. And as he's driving, it's in the middle of winter.

The roads are snowy, but it's in the middle of winter. The roads are snowy, but it starts as a sunny little day. And as he gets further along, he doesn't make it too far and he hits a blizzard and he loses control of his car and it veers off the road and flips and crashes upside down it looks like a pretty a bad crash and then we cut to a little flashback of him at his literary agent's office this is lauren bacall and we see on her walls she has posters of book covers that he has written. And he is famous for this series of romance novels about a character named Misery Chastain. A very interesting name. A very interesting name.

He is telling his agent how this isn't what he wanted to be famous for. And he's excited to start the next chapter of his life and kind of move away from this romantic novel series and into more serious stuff. And that's what he had been working on. And he like says to her, like, I'm going to, you know, be in my cabin, hopefully finish up this. And this will be my, my, my new reveal to the world. And hopefully they like it. Then we go back to the site of the accident and we see someone prying him out of his car, carrying him to, to their house and then he he kind of wakes up dazed it's blurry the you hear a voice kind of echoing like it's okay you're okay and we see eventually that he's got

his little iv drip in him and he is set settled in a bed looking up at Kathy Bates and she gives him some pills and says like, it's okay. Like you're safe. You had an accident. The roads are all, are, are all blocked and the phone lines are down, but, um, I'm a nurse. Like, thank God I found you. like you're gonna be okay but you're you're pretty badly hurt so we gotta wait for the roads to open up so that an ambulance can come get you he's super super out of it um he's very banged up and he i think drifts back to sleep and we get the sense that a couple of days have passed. He wakes back up another day and she says to him, I'm your biggest fan. Oh, no, no, no, no. I've read all of your books and I can't believe that I found you. What are the chances?

that I found you what are the chances and she says your legs are you're you're good you're gonna be okay it's gonna take time both of your legs are fractured in a bunch of places your arm is also fucked up his shoulder was dislocated she she's like eventually it was a tough, but I eventually popped it back in. And then she pulls the blankets down to show him his legs. And they are so fucked up and gross. Oh, my God. It's so it looks so bad. They're just like purple and swollen. And they're in like the little whatever when you split splints yeah but it's

all like she's done it from her house so it's not like a real cast yes and she said i did the best i could like with the tools that i had like thank god that i know what i'm doing like i had to pop a lot of the bones back into place but like they they uh your bones were like making noises like i could hear your bones moving around. Oh my God. And they look, yeah, it looks really bad. If you're a new parent, a bad day means you either ran out of coffee, diapers, patience, or all of the above. Stocking up on cold brew and deep breaths are all you, but at least Hello Bello's got your baby's butt covered. Hello Bello believes all families

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slash too scary buy raycon.com slash too scary have you guys ever broken bones no i haven't actually i have i broke my collarbone um how old were. How old were you? I was playing field hockey. I was a senior in high school. And it was like fucking gnarly. It was really gross. Collarbone's a bad one to break. Oh, that is hot. That would be really bad.

Because you can also, there's no cast you can put on it and you can see it. So you can like see the break like through the skin. Oh my God. And you can't move. Oh yeah through the skin. Oh, my God. And you can't move. It's just right there. There's nothing over it. No. Yeah.

And I just had to like literally lie in my bed for like two straight weeks and not move at all. And then luckily it healed pretty quickly. All things considered. But it was a pretty shitty like two month experience, I'd say. Oof. Yeah, that sounds really bad. This movie might be triggering for you. The feeling when you, um, when you break a bone, I don't know if you felt this, Henley,

you like get like very immediately nauseous. Like your body is like, uh oh. Yeah, this is wrong. Just imagining having like all of your bones in your legs broken, you would just be like, this is awful. Oh, it's giving me the creeps oh yeah yeah it it looks very bad but um because a couple days have passed his agent is now getting worried and he she hasn't heard from him and so she calls the sheriff of Silver Creek. I was just trying to do the math in my head.

Did were there? I guess some people had some big cell phones in 1990, but not most people. Most people. Yeah, no. Most people had no cell phones. And so she calls the sheriff of the town to basically say, I haven't heard. I think it's been two days. And the sheriff is kind of like, I'll keep an eye out.

But like, that doesn't seem crazy if he's driving like across country. Like, maybe you just he hasn't called yet. And like, we shouldn't panic yet, basically. Sure. But I will. I'll keep an eye out. I'll ask some questions. I can go check check the hotel where

he was because also he knows there was a big blizzard right like that right yeah so then back at uh annie's house her name is annie wilkes by the way and she's shaving he he like has grown stubble in a few days so she's like shaving him and at this point he's super super grateful to her and is like oh my god this woman saved my life and they are have they have a nice relationship at this point and he's flattered that she's a big fan. And she, again, says, you know, the phone lines are down. But as soon as the roads open back up, like it shouldn't be too much longer till the phone lines come back up. And then we can call your family and your agent,

because he said that he was supposed to be visiting his daughter. And he like, yeah, needs to call people to tell them that he's okay. So we see the sheriff, the sheriff's name is Buster. He's like a small town sheriff. He's like, he's like, oh, everybody calls me Buster. And he's knows everyone in town. He goes to the hotel that Paul was staying at. And they, you know, confirm, yeah, he checked out two days ago. Nothing seemed weird. He left and we haven't seen him again. And back at the house, we see, oh, Annie has said to Paul, I couldn't help but notice you have a manuscript in your bag would it be would i be really overstepping if i asked to read it and he says you know i have a pretty strict rule that in this early of stages i i don't let anybody

read it who isn't my editor or my agent or a woman who saved my life by pulling me out of a car. And she's like, oh, he's charming me. And so he lets her read it. So she's start. She has started to read it. And then we see her feeding him soup one day at his bedside. Classic. And she says, you know, she's enjoying the manuscript, but the swearing, she's not a fan of the swearing.

And he's like, oh, but that's like the kind of kids that they are. That's the kind of kid I was. And she says, but like people don't need to talk like that. And I don't go around saying like, can you get me my effing soup? saying like can you get me my effing soup and can you do my bastard chores and like swearing as if she's never sworn before in her life which i guess she hasn't so she's just saying these really weird sentences with like swear words thrown in um and she she starts getting very heated and having way too big of a reaction to these swear words in the manuscript. And he kind of, for the first time,

like looks at her like, uh, this isn't normal. And she, she gets so upset that she spills the soup on him. And as she like stands up to yell. And then after that, she kind of comes,

comes back to herself and is like, oh my gosh, I I'm so sorry, Paul. I'm so sorry. Can you ever forgive me? I lost my temper and I shouldn't have. I shouldn't have done that. I'm so sorry. And he kind of is just quite like quietly sitting there. And then she says, I love you. Oh, no. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh oh no oh god oh god oh god and his eyes kind of widen like he's getting scared and she says your brain i mean your mind like you're so brilliant that's all i meant like i think you have just such a brilliant mind anyway i'm sorry i'll leave you i'll leave you alone and she like leaves the room she drives into town and buys his new book so So his new, the last of the Misery series has just come out and she sees that they have it at the shop in town and gets very excited, buys it,

comes back. She's making him breakfast and shows that she got the book and she's like ecstatic. She's like, can you believe like they have your book? I'm so excited. Um, misery feels like home to me. Like anytime I, I follow her on her journeys. I just, it's the happiest I ever, I ever was. And Paul's kind of like, so the road, are open huh and she's like oh well just just the road to town uh the main roads aren't open yet and um says something like and don't worry I used their phone to or I called your agent and I spoke to the hospital about your condition and they're going to come the second the roads are open. And he's like, so the phones are working.

And she's like, oh, well, my phone isn't. But the one at the at the store works. And like, don't worry, I called everybody. And if you give me your daughter's number, I'll call her, too. And he's like, OK. And then she like opens the door to his bedroom and in comes this honestly beautiful pig oh okay and jumps up on his like bedside and did you guys ever see or hear of first cow that 824 movie that came out this year?

No. It had a very beautiful cow in it that reminded me of this pig. Just like beautiful farm animals. I know that probably sounds very weird, but I'm going to send you a picture because I think they're just very beautiful. And it jumps up on his bedside and Annie comes comes in and says i thought it was time that you two should meet this is my my prized sow her name is misery oh boy and he's like oh misery huh and she's like yep i told you i'm your number one fan. And he says, I'm starting to believe you. Oh, God.

And then one night she kind of has a moment with him where she's revealing a little bit about herself. And she says, you know, when my husband left me, I thought I wouldn't survive it. I thought I would go crazy. And so I dove into work and I just worked nonstop. But that's when I discovered my love for reading. And that's when I discovered misery. And misery made me forget all my problems. And you did that paul like you saved me in time where i felt like my lowest and um she's telling him that you know she's still reading his manuscript or no no now she has switched to reading the new release of uh it's called misery's child and that is the the final book in the misery series she doesn't know that yet, but.

Oh, she is not going to be happy about that. Oh, no. Oh, no. And that night, in the middle of the night. You better not tell her. In the middle of the night, she busts into his room, waking him up. And starts screaming at him. How you how could you she can't be dead misery can't die like you murdered her you murdered her paul and paul's like uh i didn't

murder her she just died but her spirit will leave live on and she says i don't want her spirit i want her and she is absolutely losing it screaming at him eventually she kind of calms down a little bit and just quietly is like i thought you were good but you're just another old dirty birdie oh my god no no no no no no no i hate this then she says and by the way i never called anyone nobody knows you're here and you nobody's coming for you and you better hope nothing ever happens to me because if i die you die what the fuck oh no and she storms out and gets in her car and drives away and paul can see through the window that she has just driven away and he whips off that blanket and starts trying to lower himself onto the ground and he's like trying to do it delicately but with his death his legs in

the splints it likes he like slams down and like screams in pain and crawls drags himself over to the bedroom door, which is locked from the outside. Oh, no. And he just kind of gives up. Oh, God. Why do doors lock from the outside? None of the doors in my house lock from any direction, actually. I think mine does, actually. My main door locks.

My main door locks, everybody. Don't try to come in my house. But yeah, the idea of having an interior door that you can lock someone in a room. That feels bad. So scary. You know what? I actually noticed that their knobs look like my knobs because they're like the old glass door knobs.

Are they the ones that lock on both sides? Yes, and it has a keyhole. And so mine actually can lock from the outside, which I don't love. Is that for locking children in their rooms? I just don't know. That doesn't seem like a good reason. It seems like no good reason.

I don't think that it's good, but didn't people do that? Lock children in their rooms? I feel like people probably did. It just seems so unsafe no matter what because of fires or whatever. I feel like people probably did. It just seems so unsafe no matter what. Very unsafe. Because of fires or whatever. I mean, I have... That's true, fires!

I have big windows in my room so I could jump out if I needed to. Oh God, I'm making an escape plan because now I'm scared that my door locks from the outside. Gotta have an escape plan. So the next morning, she comes back into his room and says, I asked God about you. She, by the way, is wearing a cross necklace. Sure. At all times. Anybody who's very upset about swear words, I take to be quite Christian. about swear words I take to be quite Christian.

And she says, I asked God about you. And he said that he brought you to me so that I could show you the light. Oh, great. Thank God. And then she roll. He's looking very nervous. She rolls in a little barbecue and puts his new manuscript on it oh great covers it in lighter fluid and gives hands him a match and says you need to you need to burn this and bring misery back to life like that needs to be what you focus on. And he says, I could burn it, but, you know, there's many other copies.

It doesn't matter. And she's like, great. So, so burn it then. And he's like, yeah, I mean, it won't matter to me if I do. And she's like, great. So you said, so do it. Oh, no. And then she says, I know you're bluffing, Paul.

I know because you said when you were 24, when you wrote your first manuscript, you didn't make a copy of it because you thought no one would like it. And so you just carried around the one copy. And now ever since then, because of superstition, you do the same thing. And that's your that's what you do when you write every book is you don't make a copy until so until I don't know, until it's published or whatever. Don't make a copy until, I don't know, until it's published or whatever. And makes him burn it. And he looks very sad. And it is his only copy.

And as they're burning his book, they hear a helicopter. And Paul is looking very excited to hear this, looks outside. We see in the helicopter, it is the sheriff and a pilot. And they're kind of looking to see if his car veered off the road. They don't see anything. they don't see anything and i think he is he he got the share buster got a little bit suspicious of annie because i think he saw her buy his new book in town okay and so they circled the reason they fly over her house specifically is to look and see if his car is there and it's not um so but but buster is suspicious of annie at this point but they don't see any evidence that anything's going on so they they don't stop and they fly off and um so paul is you know not happy and he starts hiding the pills that she is giving him every day they're pain medication and he is in a lot of pain but he starts they're also probably sedatives

right yeah yeah is hiding pills on our bingo oh that Oh, that could be. That definitely should be. Well, I feel like pills are on our bingo card at some point, right? Or like taking pills. Yeah. Maybe. So he starts kind of tucking them under his mattress where he can reach them and just starts stashing up pills. Then Annie brings him in a table and a typewriter and says, you're going to start writing the new misery book. You left her buried in the ground. So that's where you're going to have to start and bring her back to life and gets him set up with a wheelchair and kind of rolls him over to this little table so that he can write the next misery novel. to this little table so that he can write the next misery novel and she's like did i do good and he is very much trying to play into this role which you do and this is like my favorite thing

about this movie is that it's very much what women do like anytime we feel scared and it's just so interesting to see these roles reversed where he is because the only way that it works is if you are physically powerless right or like the physically less powerful if you think you can't you can't win a fight which he can't and so he's in the position now that women are in most of the time and this like way that you just have to placate to to not make the other person mad it's very interesting watching a man do it and um i think that's my favorite part of the movie and here i what i thought i was like stephen king has written like somewhat of a feminist novel here in this um and then i read his reason for writing it was it was his vision of battling his own addiction and it is interesting too that that's like also a bunch of successful male actors were like i'm not gonna do this

right fascinating so yeah she gets them all set up and says like did i do good and he's like you did great annie you did great except for one thing. I can't write on this paper that you got. And she's upset and says, what do you mean? Annie says, well, this will smudge. She's like, no, this is good paper. And he puts one in, does a little test and writes smudge, wipes his finger on it. It smudges. And he's like, you got to get this specific kind of paper. And he sees that she has dropped a bobby pin on the ground. And so she heads out, gets in her car, drives away. He grabs that bobby pin, rolls to the door and is able to pick the lock with it and get out of the room. He rolls to the front door, which is also locked from the outside.

He rolls to the front door, which is also locked from the outside. And he is kind of rolling around the house looking for each of the doors to see if he can find a way out. And he bumps into a table and knocks over. She has like a table full of ceramic figurines and knocks over a little penguin. and knocks over a little penguin. And it's like a stressful moment because you don't want it to break because then she'll know. And so it doesn't break. He puts it back up

and he makes his way to the kitchen and it looks like there's another door to the outside in the kitchen, but his wheelchair doesn't fit through the door to the kitchen and so he is not an ada compliant house and he gets out of his wheelchair lowers himself onto the ground kitchen door to try to open it it's also locked he looks very defeated and looks up at the kitchen counter sees a big knife block that's kind of eyeing that

and then he hears her car approaching oh god and completely panics and tries to hurry to get himself back into the wheelchair and it's so stressful um and you see you know it's cutting back and forth we see her getting closer and he's gets back in his wheelchair and rolls towards his room he's about to go in his room. He sees that he left another door open, so he has to go get that. She's walking up the stairs to the front door, and then she drops one of the packets of paper that she's

just bought and has to stop to go to pick that up. And that gives him just enough time to close the door, get back in his room, close his door, and again, use the bobby pin to re-lock it because he doesn't want her to be open and he does it just in the nick of time but she comes right in like the second he gets it done and he is like dripping sweat um and looks not

good and she's like oh my, what the hell happened, Paul? Well, she doesn't say hell. She would never. She would never. She says, well, what happened, Paul? And he says, I'm in pain is what happened. I need my pills. I need my pills.

I'm in so much pain. Oh, he has grabbed, one of the things he did was he went into a room where it's like her supply room, her medical supply room, I guess, and grabbed a packet of the things he did was he went into a room where it's like her supply room her medical supply room I guess and grabbed a packet of the pills and put them in his pants and he

sees that he wasn't it's not covered very well and so that's why he's like immediately trying to get her out of the room because he needs to like hide these pills better and she's like well let me get you into bed first he's like no no no like I need him now I'm in pills better. And she's like, well, let me get you into bed first. He's like, no, no, no.

I need them now. I'm in so much pain. And she's like, okay. All right. I'll go get them. And so she goes to grab some pills, giving him enough time to properly hide them. I wonder what his plan is. And then she comes back and is able to get him back in his bed and doesn't notice the pills.

Then we see the helicopter flying around again, looking for any clues. And they do see, they spot his overturned car that is almost completely buried in snow. But they see kind of the tires poking out. but they see kind of the tires poking out. And immediately, not Buster, but someone does like a press conference saying like, we can only assume he's dead. And like announcing to the world, you know, his body's probably around here somewhere.

We may not find it until the thaw until summer unless the animals got to him and like giving this really wild press conference huge assumptions and Buster yeah he's like we don't have time to deal with this so we're just gonna assume he's

dead probably he's dead and inside of the snow see in the summer yeah like good luck if he is alive. Maybe animals ate it. I don't know. Probably there's no more work to be done here. Case closed. And Buster, of course,

does not think this is the case. He is examining the car and he sees the very obvious crowbar marks on the door of the car. And he's like someone clearly his wife is with him a lot. And his wife's like, you don't think he's dead? And he's like, well, he might be dead, but not in the way that they're saying.

Like someone pried him out of this car. Like someone had him at some point. It's nice that they go to work together. I think it's his wife it's a very little small town vibe she's like what else would I be doing I got time let's go check out that car

then we go back to Annie's house and see Paul has made a little pouch out of paper one of the pieces of paper like folded a little pouch and he starts emptying the one of the pieces of paper, like folded a little pouch, and he starts emptying the contents of the pills into this pouch. So it's just the powder inside of the like gelatin capsule. And he has to like swallow just the gelatin parts. And I don't know why that really

grossed me out. Like swallowing empty pill capsules. Yuck. But you gotta do what you gotta do. He can't have gotta do what you can't have evidence i guess he could shove them under the bed where he has all of his other things she can't see but he doesn't he eats them just in case um and then he gets to writing the book and at first you see him just type fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck which i liked and then he throws that page away and he starts typing and he finishes the first chapter and Annie is thrilled she is like oh my god it's very it's really funny she's like she's like seeing that the reason they accidentally buried misery alive was because she was paralyzed from the bee sting make my heart leap out of my body with joy. Oh, my God.

Seeing misery come back to life. She's like basically like twirling around the room. She's like so happy that misery is alive again. Oh, my God. And Paul sees this. She's like, well, I'm going to go put on my records. And Paul, before she leaves, says, Annie, would you have dinner with me tonight to celebrate Misery's return? And she's like, I would be honored.

And he's like, yeah, I mean, I think I think it's it's cause to celebrate. And we're starting to see what he's planning. Although it makes me nervous. Part of me is like heal a little bit more before you're going to do this, bro. Like you're not in a good enough shape to actually escape right yeah right um yeah he is still not not great um we see that buster has bought all of the misery novels and is reading them to see if he can glean a clue from them research research doing some research which i mean how fast of a reader are you buster if i like don't understand detective

work at all and i think i would be a very terrible detective but this also seems like not a great detective move but i didn't totally see what what um of this. So maybe he did find some information here that was important. He probably did, but I didn't catch it. The only thing you really need to know is that he just came out with the final one where she dies. And that seems to be the most important piece of information. Yes. I feel like it'd be good detective work if he was your murder suspect. Do you know what I mean?

If you're like, this guy's a murderer, let me read his books to figure out his... But it's like, he disappeared after these books were written. What clues are going to be in these books? He didn't know he was going to go missing when he wrote them. Whatever, Buster, you do your thing. I mean, bless him for

trying, I think. He's doing more than anyone else is doing he is focused on this and honestly maybe he just had a reading goal to meet and we respect that that was quiet he just likes the books and then we see Annie and Paul

having dinner together they are having wine and seated across from each other, a somewhat romantic type setting. And she is about to she sits down and kind of raises her wine glass to give a toast. And Paul says, wait, wait, wait, let's do this right. Do you have any candles? And she's like, oh, Paul, like so romantic.

Let me see. I probably do. And goes out of the room to go search for candles. He pulls out his little pouch and dumps the contents into her glass of wine, kind of swirls it a bit and sets it back down. She comes back in and he's like, OK, yeah, let's have that. She lights the candle and he's like okay yeah let's have that she lights the candle and he's like perfect let's do the toast now and she reaches for her wine glass and accidentally knocks it over spilling all of the contents of it and you see his face just he's so he's so

disappointed but he can't show that he's upset by what has just happened and she's like oh my god I'm such a klutz I'm so sorry Paul I'm ruining the the perfect dinner like can you forgive me and she puts it back up and and fills another glass of wine and raises it back up like can we pretend that didn't happen like oh I'm so embarrassed and he's like yeah yeah no problem of course and they continue their dinner and he is defeated this plot did not work and then um he like you said henley just starts writing the book we see a little montage of time passing and i think his next plan is like yeah let me heal some let me just right store up some more powder yep yep i need some more time now and so we see like a little montage of time passing him finishing chapter after chapter her reading it. She's so thrilled

And then after he's finished he's getting pretty close to the end he's in chapter 30 or something and We see it starting to rain now. So the the snow is starting to melt and Annie comes into his room one night and not her normal kind of chipper self. And she says, the rain always makes me feel sad. She's got seasonal depression. Wow. OK.

We can relate. Not an excuse for holding a man captive not an excuse but sometimes the rain makes you do crazy things and yeah she says the rain always makes me feel sad and turns to him and says, I know you don't love me, Paul. You're so handsome and brilliant and smart. And I'm not the movie star type. And I know you'll never love me. You're starting to heal. Soon you'll be better and you'll be trying to leave me. And so she shows him that she has a gun and just like, just FYI, I've got a gun. So he's pretty scared again. And one day she leaves to go to the store or something.

And as soon as she is gone, he again uses his bobby pin to get out of his room, goes to the kitchen, grabs that knife and gets back in bed. And we see him. He's got his arm is in a sling and we see him kind of he's holding the knife in the sling with his arm and practicing, like whipping it out real quick to be able to stab her when she's close to him. to stab her when she's close to him so he's just like practicing this movement and you see him he's kind of practicing moving his legs a bit he's he's somewhat healed not super healed but enough i think to be able to to get away okay um and so he's waiting in in bed for her to come into his room after she gets home from wherever she was. And we see her come home and kind of stop. We see her like feet, the shadow of her feet under his door.

And she stops facing his room and he's got his knife at the ready waiting for her to come in she just stands there and then she walks away and walks to her room and goes to bed he's like you know a little disappointed yeah i didn't get to stab her i didn't get to stab her but he he put he puts the knife under the bed and and falls asleep and the next morning she comes in and she says i know you've been out paul and she's looking mad she has stuff with her that doesn't look good she has a sledgehammer oh no and a like two by four thing and he's looking panicked and he reaches for his knife and she has it and holds it up and says looking for this no no no no no no and he looks very scared and said, I know you've been out because the penguin always faces due south.

Oh, God. Oh, my God. Jesus fucking Christ. No, no. Oh, God. And she's like, I tried to figure out how you did it. And I just found this little guy. And she has the bobby pin.

She's like, I see how you did it. And she says, do you know what they did to the native workers at who stole diamonds from the diamond mines and he's looking very scared and she's starting to she puts the little two by four between his ankles so his ankles are pressed up against like wood now oh my god oh my god oh my I know, I don't want to know. Oh no, no, no. And she's like, don't worry. They didn't kill them.

That would be like trashing a car that you need. They just needed to make sure that they couldn't run away. It's called hobbling. She's going to re-break his legs. She's going to re-break his legs. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. And she takes the sledgehammer. Paul says, you don't have to do this, Annie.

You don't have to do this. She's like, I do. I do, Paul. Like, you're going to do this, Annie. You don't have to do this. She's like, I do. I do, Paul. Like, you're going to run away from me. You're going to run away from me. And she takes the sledgehammer and hits him right on the ankle into the woodblock. And it shows it. And it looks so bad.

And he's screaming and screaming. And she's like, it's OK. Just one more. Just one more. one more walks over to the other side she's a bad nurse takes the sledgehammer and hits the other ankle and oh there you go it's it's all done um and i think he might like pass out from pain or something. But then we cut back to Buster, who is at the at the local store that Annie bought the paper from and the books from. And is basically like, are you all sold out of that? The new book or whatever, like who else was who bought it?

And he says Annie bought it. And she also bought a bunch of so much paper and the typewriter and so buster's like okay i gotta go over there so she bought all the copies i think well he bought some too nobody was nobody could read oh yeah maybe maybe yeah you know what i'm thinking about also too is that sammy to your point how this is usually like a female character who's in this situation of being like so victimized and held hostage it's always a female character i wonder if there's something about like those male actors also just not wanting to have to be a victim in this way yeah just not wanting to have to even play a victim i really think that's part of it right yeah i think that must be a huge

part of it well because it's fucking terrifying being a victim and being like physically less powerful than the person holding you hostage is like yeah it's so scary a daily thing that i feel like we fear as women and i mean i'm sure men fear it too because it's fucking scary it makes me want you know how you often hear in situations where women have been abused by their partners like why didn't you leave like showing them this movie and being like why doesn't he leave right yeah and being like yeah it's not a one-to-one but like you see how when you are made to be powerless, it's not easy to just walk out the door. Right. Like, right. Especially as, yeah, I mean, that's a whole other conversation, but especially when you have been like broken down mentally and emotionally by the person to,

to like, think that like, there's no, you have no power, no, in any situation, you have no power no in any situation right even if you maybe technically do right oh scary yeah it is very scary and so one other thing that i left out when he got out of the room the second time he kind of finds he finds a photo book that he flips through and we see clippings from news articles that she has put in this book and they're of her at the hospital that she worked at. It's like infant dies at hospital, nurse being questioned, and then they keep going. questioned and then they keep going and it's like like three three infants now dead and nurse being investigated and there's a seeming seemingly she has killed babies and saved the newspaper clip and saved the newspaper clippings and that's what she says that's what she says to him also when she comes into his room after realizing he's gotten out he's like she's like i i know i left my scrapbook out i can't imagine what you think of me now and something like that um we don't ever find out really much more about it than that

that's just something a very horrifying thing in her past that also buster uncovers as well eventually yeah that's the person you got to do the digging on, Buster, I must say. Yeah. And he does. And he, the next day, comes to her house. Paul is sitting at his desk and I think has just finished the last chapter of the novel. of the novel and then sees uh buster driving up gets excited starts kind of figuring out what what's his plan going to be and annie walks in with a syringe walks straight for him and plunges the syringe in his arm and they have kind of he like tries to fight it tries to fight it

and he can't and he kind of loses consciousness she carries him to um the a kind of hidden door that has steps down to a basement throws him in the basement carries him down she's she's able to carry him quite easily which is impressive and carries him down, puts him at the bottom. He's unconscious. She closes the door and goes to answer the door to Buster, to talk to Buster. Buster says, what can you, do you know anything about Paul Sheldon? He was staying around here and he's gone missing. And she's like, well, what do you want to to know like he was born in this town in this year

and he to um his mother was this his father was that he has these amount of siblings and he's like i'm normal i just know everything about him what's what's up and she says like i'm his number one fan and i think maybe she knows like they already would know that because don't pretend that you're not yeah so i think she's trying to be like yeah I'm his number one fan but like no he's not in my basement I would never hold him hostage in my house break his ankles and then put him in my basement if that's what you're wondering but I did it where he was born

um so she's yeah trying to play it cool in this very creepy way of yeah I might be obsessed with him yeah anyway so she he's like well no i'm wondering if you've seen him lately and she says no and she's like oh do you want to come in and take a look around he's like yeah yeah i do actually and comes in looks in each of the rooms. Nothing. I would say too, like if someone came to

my door asking me if I'd seen a person and I really hadn't, I wouldn't go, I mean, do you want to come in and look around? I wouldn't offer that. Come on and prove it. Just don't look in the basement. You can look everywhere but the basement. I mean,

come in and look because I've definitely made sure you won't find him. Yeah, I a hidden door that so come to my house i don't know what you're talking about but if you want to check my house um and so he comes in he looks in every room doesn't see anything and he's super suspicious but he's like okay okay, I guess, I guess that's, that's all I've gotten. Starts leaving. She's like, okay, like, let me know if I can be any help. Also, one more thing. If you're his number one fan, wouldn't you be like, what happened to him? Is he okay? Like, where is he? Why are you looking for him? Like, wouldn't you also react in that way if you actually didn't know? Yeah. So the fact that she's like, she might, I can't remember. Right. Right. Yeah. I mean, she's definitely suspicious and he he is suspicious of her.

But he leaves to try to figure out. He's like starts walking out to try to figure out what to do next. And then Paul wakes up and starts screaming and Buster hears it. And Buster turns back around and you see Annie kind of turn and Buster turns back around, and you see Annie kind of turn, and Buster runs in. The door's not locked, and he runs in. We don't see where Annie is. He kind of hears where the screaming is coming from,

locates the hidden door, kind of presses his hands around it, and is able to figure out how to open it. Opens the door, sees Paul at the foot of the stairs. Paul is like, help me, help me. And a hole just blows right through Buster's chest. And she shot him with a shotgun. Oh, very close distance. So like literally like a hole gets blown through his chest.

He falls forward. Buster, you've got to bring back up. You have got to bring back up. Where was your wife today, Buster you gotta bring back up you have got to bring back up where was your wife today Buster? where was your wife? oh no and Annie looks down at Paul and is like

I'm so sorry I'm so sorry Paul I think I think we're both gonna have to die we'll have to die together. Like it's, they're going to keep coming. They're going to keep looking for you. The only way to do it is to die. And Paul looks back up at her and is like, you're right, Annie. You're right. And she says, I love you, Paul. And he says, I love you too, Annie. you're right. And she says, I love you, Paul. And he says, I love you too, Annie. But you know, I have to do my, my thing that I do every time I finish a manuscript. And she's like, oh, of course you're your champagne and your cigarette. And he's like, but this time we need two glasses of champagne. Like I couldn't have done it without you. And she's like, oh, Paul, I have it here ready. You've said in interviews that this

is what you do. So I've gotten it ready and brings him back up, carries him to his room by the typewriter. He hands him a little cigarette and a match on a plate and goes out to get the champagne and he takes the manuscript and holds the match to it and so when she comes back in he's basically holding the manuscript that she loves now hostage and says i i can't remember what he says but she basically like lunges at him to have him not I can't remember what he says, but she basically like lunges at him to have him not burn the manuscript. And when she's close to him, he's able to take the typewriter and smash it on her head. And he knocks her down and he like rolls out of his wheelchair and they're wrestling on the ground. He lights them or he has lit the manuscript and so it's like burning and he

takes like burnt pages of the manuscript and shoves them in her mouth oh my god and they're like rolling around and she's she um uh is able to kind of get the upper hand i thought he was gonna put powder in the champagne he's like nope burnt pages in the mouth typewriter to the head i got a new plan now and she has a little shotgun or i mean a handgun now and so she's like reaching for that but he trips her and when he trips her she falls and smacks her head on the typewriter in the in a bad way and it knocks her out maybe dead blood is coming from her head now and i'm gonna guess not dead and he like starts crawling towards the door she comes yeah she's not dead has comes for him one last time and he grabs this doorstop that's like a little metal pig doorstop oh misery a little misery doorstop and smashes her face in with it

finally killing her she does die and they both okay are like laying on the ground next to each other and then i think it just cuts to black but we i guess because um buster is now dead there also and probably told people that he was going there so we just assumed that they found him there because i was kind of like well wait how are they he's still like alone there but we just come back up 18 months later in new york and he is having um dinner or lunch with his agent and basically talking about how he's she says she says if you ever want to write like a memoir about your experiences, that would really be a hit. We'd make so much money. And he's basically like, I don't ever want to do that.

Come on, use your trauma. Let's make money off your trauma. And we see that he is very traumatized. And he turns to the waitress coming towards them. it is Kathy Bates and he like looks terrified and shakes his head and it's just another woman. And he says like, I've been seeing her everywhere. She follows me everywhere. And the waitress comes up to him and says, sorry, I just have to say like, I'm your number one fan. Like, I love your book

so much and he just like looks really scared and like smiles at her and says thank you that's really sweet and that's the end of the movie oh wow that is so good it's really good yeah i i loved this movie um stephen king you did you did it you did one good one we've moved on we have a new number one enemy most hated guy and it's Eli Roth Eli Roth number one

yeah if you guys want to listen to our bonus episode about Green Inferno boy oh boy that has reached the number one most hated movie on this podcast. And most hated guy. Oh, my God. But this one is good. This one is good. Stephen King did like Green Inferno, so don't get it twisted. We still have a problem.

Don't get it twisted. We still have a problem. Don't get it twisted. He did all good thing. We don't like him. thing we don't like him interesting how Stephen King's experience with addiction does really reflect a woman's experience with um like domestic abuse or violence right um because yeah I can see similarly like even if you do recover from because he was seriously addicted to cocaine yeah and I think in the book actually uh the Paul Sheldon character has an addiction as well, and that they didn't include that in the movie. But I think in the book, it is probably more obviously. Yeah, Stephen King, like processing his own addiction problems. And hey, addiction is fucking scary and all that. Yeah, that's right. Also bad. Yeah.

And stays with you like your whole life. Yeah, exactly. So even if you've recovered, you're still having to fight it often in the same way where he sees Kathy Bates rounding the corner all the time. Right, right. Ooh, spooky. Yeah. Spooky, spooky. Ooh, damn.

It makes me, I want to see this because I want to see Kathy. I was going to say it's worth watching for sure for Kathy Bates performance. She's so fucking good in it. And it's not too scary. It's just yeah, there's some there's one bad scene. Yeah, that was hard to even. I knew it was coming and I couldn't fucking handle it. I'm I'm really glad to have heard about it, but I definitely, this is the type of movie I

wouldn't want to watch because you just know, like the whole time you're like, shit's going to be so bad for this guy. So bad, so bad, so bad. Should I give you guys some spoilers? Yeah, tell us about Castle Rock. Castle Rock season two. Okay, well. Do they reveal the baby stuff?

So that's interesting. That's not really. So there is baby stuff, but not that. So in Castle Rock season two, spoilers for anyone who hasn't seen it. Basically, first of all, there are two plot lines in Castle Rock season two. One of them has nothing to do with this. And they do kind of get interwoven. So Castle Rock season one is kind of like that, where it's it's a bunch of different Stephen King storylines kind of get interwoven so season one is kind of like that where it's it's a bunch of

different stephen king storylines kind of strung together so it's a few things at once probably yes so similarly here but in season two basically it follows lizzie caplan who plays annie the kathy bates character and she's a nurse and she has a teenage daughter and they're like go from town to town and never staying long in one place. Does it happen to have a teenage daughter? I guess she is. I guess we technically could. She's supposed to be like 30 and I think her daughter's like 15. So you can kind of see. Yeah. But OK, so I keep going. So she goes from town to town, always like moving between places. And she's like steals pills everywhere she is, like a whole concoction of pills.

And it's constantly taking like a shit ton of pills to like keep herself kind of normal. And then she gets stuck in Castle Rock and all this shit goes down. And basically, like it's revealed that she has all these flashbacks to when she was a child. And when she was a child, she had like serious mental illness problems and got kicked out of school. And her mom was a nurse and her mom was like really against swearing and called people dirty birds and like really against like any kind of sin at all. And then her dad was a writer and her dad tries to teach her how to read and like homeschool her. And she can't read. She like is such a hard time reading and like only reads her dad's manuscript over and over and over again. That's all, all that she reads.

And for like 10 years, her dad is trying to teach her how to read. And then finally they get another teacher to come in and homeschool her. And this other teacher like really helps her and like teaches her how to read. And actually she gets better and blah, blah, blah. Annie has very weird ideas about morality and like really can't see the gray area and anything like clearly thinks everything's black and white. Either you're evil or you're good and there's no in between. Black and white thinking is very destructive. And so then this homeschool teacher and her dad start having an affair and they fall in love and the teacher gets pregnant and has a baby. And then the dad finally releases his book and he dedicates the book to the teacher and not to Annie. And she like has a mental breakdown and kills like all of them, except the baby, which is like in a box that she like brings to the river or whatever and like goes to kill the baby, too. But then the baby like looks at her and smiles and she decides that like the baby's good. And so that's her teenage daughter is that baby.

And so then there's like a whole plot line with the daughter and all you need to know is that the daughter dies ultimately and maybe like um that leads and she kills babies because she thinks she can tell by looking at them if they're good or bad and so maybe she was like killing bad babies it could be who knows they don't go into that they don't go into that at all they like end it when she's still like 30 years old she doesn't have another husband there's none of that in castle rock season two and i think yeah i think castle rock is kind of loose uh i think it's not like a one-to-one necessarily stephen king i don't think wrote any of it and so it's kind of just like other people living in that world with those

characters but might not be like a legit like prequel there might be some some i can't some liberties taken yes through throughout the series and then the final one of the final scenes of the series though is lizzie caplan's character at like a book signing and she's like hallucinating that her teenage daughter is still there and they're there to see her favorite author who is Paul Sheldon. That's fun. Yeah. That's also a fun idea that like she met him

in a prior experience to this, what happens in the movie at this book signing. Right. Like many years prior. prior yeah what a good one wowie wowie wowie is so good oh i loved it listeners great choice thank you listeners i'm excited for what we will do next week i don't think we have the results just yet but i'm liking the options so far it could be good night mommy could be teeth could be the others

yeah it could be i'm pretty sure it's between Goodnight Mommy and Teeth right now. Yeah. That's where that's where we've landed. Oh, yeah. Oof, oof, oof. I don't like the sound of a movie called Teeth. That doesn't excite me. But listeners, you do your thing.

I trust you. And we'll see. We'll see what happens. Mm hmm. And I don't know if there's voices in this movie, but this episode comes out on St. Patrick's Day, so I thought we could do an Irish accent. Oh, I'll try.

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