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Truly one of the most consistently entertaining television shows around today. I want to write for this show so badly! I want to learn how to create such horrible analogies! I want to talk about "Larry the Lobster Boy" and the fundamentalist preacher who tried to kill his wife with rattlesnakes, and this whole thing about Jerry Falwell and Lynchburg (gotta love that name for a town)!

So am I the only fan of this brilliant show who posts on here?

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Thursday, 30 January 2003 03:06 (twenty-three years ago)

My wife loves the guy's voice.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 30 January 2003 03:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Your wife is brilliant and has excellent taste, Bryan.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Thursday, 30 January 2003 03:12 (twenty-three years ago)

i love that guys voice too, especially when he taks about something normal in that ultra-sinister tone, like "there were always lots picnickersss by the lakeshore" and you know somebody's in for it

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 30 January 2003 03:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Exactly! Ever so sinister and all - damn, I do want to write his dialogue.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Thursday, 30 January 2003 04:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Total fan of the show - we're talking TiVo 5 episode season pass here. Fave episodes are the Fresno, Baton Rouge, and murdering cheerleader mom.

The Voice is none other than Paul Winfield - been in a bunch of fun SF movies, usually as the guy who gets killed (Damnation Alley, Terminator, Star Trek II)

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Thursday, 30 January 2003 08:02 (twenty-three years ago)

four months pass...

Reviving because this morning's (at least when the TiVo snagged it) episode was the Milwaukee episode with the murdering ex-cop/Playboy bunny.

"Run Bambi Run!"

Totally hilarious!

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 21:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't believe I missed that one! I've caught the tail end (sorry, couldn't resist) of that episode several times, but not seen it in its entirety (crap - I have just respelt that last word six different ways and still think it looks incorrect - my apologies, but I don't have the stamina to go and look it up somewhere).

You know, it's been ages since I've watched this show - since baseball season started, I guess. I need to get back into the swing of things (criminey, was that another pun? I need to get some sleep!) and start watching it again - unless it's in reruns, of course.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 05:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm pretty sure it's all reruns stilll, but the TiVo has been picking up a lot of episodes I haven't seen before. Latest one is the Hermosa Beach one that I hadn't seen before (but I remember when the murder took place)

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 18:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I've a rerun on now - I think it's that one from Little Rock, but I've not been paying much attention, between doing the ILE thing and listening to "All Things Considered" and having the TV muted.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 21:12 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

I FUCKING LOVE THIS SHOW. Exact quote:

"Stuart Alexander's transformation from sausage-maker to cold-blooded killer hasn't dampened San Leandro's love of smoked links."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 6 November 2005 04:02 (twenty years ago)

The narration is great, plus it gives a broader picture of whatever city it's in.

― duke of marlboro (mickeygraft), Sunday, 6 November 2005 04:27 (twenty years ago)

search:

the new orleans one about police corruption.
the san diego and malibu ("behind the beautiful california weather life is not as etc etc as it seems") eps
the portland "white power teen punx kill visiting african student and turn happy granola town on its crunchy little ear" one

― bird-person-person (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 6 November 2005 04:37 (twenty years ago)

and anything where a murder shakes up some quiet epicenter of prim southern gentility

― bird-person-person (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 6 November 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah, what was the one about the doctor who was living on the hill? and the wife had a sister...can't remember the story - it was really good.

― duke of marlboro (mickeygraft), Sunday, 6 November 2005 04:45 (twenty years ago)

true fact: a very good friend of mine co-created this show and wrote a lot of the first few seasons (until he moved up the ladder to executive producer or something). for those first few years he was always carrying around true crime books looking for good cases. i actually suggested one to him that got made into an episode. anyway, it's a big step up for him from writing hooters' radio spots...

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 6 November 2005 05:21 (twenty years ago)

which was the case that got made into an episode?

― bird-person-person (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 6 November 2005 05:43 (twenty years ago)

I love this show despite the fact that they all seem to follow more or less the same formula:

-Portrayal of sleepy affluent suburb/Remote idyllic town
-Safe, illustrated by scenes of kids playing outside/old people in diner. The type of place where nothing could ever happen.
-Gruesome murder/ missing person/ town leader killed/ etc.
-Victim's wife takes out huge insurance policy weeks before the murder/ victim makes head cheerleader/ creepy drug addict needed money
-Crime gets solved, town goes back to normal with innocence lost.

Somehow it never gets old.

― naus (Robert T), Sunday, 6 November 2005 05:46 (twenty years ago)

xpost: my contribution was the 'rocky top murders' in gatlinburg, tenn. featured a killer named tattoo eddie. i used to work with two of the reporters who covered the case (they both got interviewed for the show), so i'd heard a lot of talk about it.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 6 November 2005 05:51 (twenty years ago)

the one that featured Claudine Longet didn't mention her music career AT ALL even though have the photos they used were her album covers.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 7 November 2005 01:46 (twenty years ago)

i saw that one! it made me want to go to aspen in the '70s.

― bird-person-person (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 7 November 2005 01:54 (twenty years ago)

when i took my amtrak trip last year claudine's version of "snow" (the randy newman ballad) came on just as the train was chugging up the side of a snow-covered colorado mountain. :-) :-) :-)

― bird-person-person (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 7 November 2005 02:04 (twenty years ago)

nice!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 7 November 2005 02:07 (twenty years ago)

the amarillo episode is the coolest!

"in amarillo, brian stuck out like a vegan at a livestock auction."

― stockholm cindy is in your extended network (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 13 November 2005 05:09 (twenty years ago)

"punk vs. jock... outcast vs. insider... the final outcome of which WAS DEADLY."

― stockholm cindy is in your extended network (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 13 November 2005 05:10 (twenty years ago)

brian is wearing crass and conflict t-shirts

― stockholm cindy is in your extended network (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 13 November 2005 05:15 (twenty years ago)

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