Netflix has just released a new thriller series (that’s more of an atmospheric slow burn than a series filled with jump scares) starring Toni Collette that’s slightly based on a disturbing true story, and you need to inhale it this weekend.
Plus, Em has been nearly dying of laughter thanks to a new animated series she has just discovered, and it’s led to a bit of a confessional conversation about the animated shows we still watch as adults.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
So much.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
You're listening to Amma Mia podcast. Mamma Mia acknowledges the
traditional owners of land and waders that this podcast is
recorded on from Mamma Mia. Welcome to this spill your
daily pop culture fix. I'm Laura Broadneck and I'm m
Burnham and welcome to wee can watch.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Our favorite show.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Louis, you said about a lot of things, you say
Britly honored reviews. Your favorite you say, WEE can watch
is your favorite? What's the truth? Emily, what is the truth?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Depending on the brutally honest review? Okay, I feel like
this week might be my favorite this week?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Oh guys, what's dropping at three pm this afternoon? You
are you are not ready?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
You are not ready.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
We are people in this office trying to break down
the door again into this record. They wanted to be involved,
but it's just too many people. Anyway, we can watch
or we talk about the best new movies and TV
shows that have come out this week, and we haven't
really told each other exactly what we're doing this week.
It's all very mysterious.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I didn't even know what I was going to do
this week until today, well, because I was a bit
embarrassed about my weekend one.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Oh okay, I mean this is a safe space. Well, actually,
let's just see what it is. I don't think I
say it's the same space, but I'm the person who
mocks you the most, so maybe it's not.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
So. I've been really into adult animation.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
No judgment. I personally find it very hard to get
behind animation in ninety seven. Well that was different, wasn't
That was just great TV? Great TV goes across something new.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I wanted to try something new, and I've been like obsessed,
Like my favorite shows are Bob's Burgers, Rick and Morty,
Like I just love adult animation. Oh my god. Anyway,
So speaking of Rick and Morty, the writers on that
show have just come out with a brand new show.
And my algorithm knows me so well because it wouldn't
stop feeding me, like it was like watch this. It's
(01:56):
on Netflix. It's called Haunted Hotel.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Welcome to the Underveil. We know about the smell and we're.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Trying I run a haunted hotel where you're now trapped
as a ghost with dozens of other girls.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Ghost, different ghosts.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Ghost Georgie.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
You're cool once you get to know them. Are they
trying to scare me?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Or is that regular booing?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It's a bit of both. Stick with me, Okay, now
I'm there. You know he loves a haunted hotel. Laura Brodnick.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I actually think you'd really like this because it's like
really really because it's for adults, so it's like really
really funny. But yes, it's a cartoon. It is about
this single mum with two kids and she's inherited a
hotel from her dead brother, and that hotel is filled
with ghosts okay, including her dead brother.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Okay, but it's like a comedy. So it's like they're
all well aware that the ghosts of they're the ghosts
keep trying to kill them, and they're so fine with
it because you know what happens when the ghost tries
to kill you, It just goes straight through you.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
So they'll be like eating breakfast and this ghost will
just be like their heads and not and wondering why
they're not dying. But it's really really funny Family dynamics
really funny because it's like the mum and two kids,
but then there's this other kid that they've like adopted
into the family and it's not really a kid. It's
just like this empty corpse that's been invaded by a demon,
and it's just like it's just really good. Like I
(03:25):
just miss like shows where it's just like has a
storyline that's so so bizarre, but like ends up working.
Like will Ford plays a brother. He is so so funny.
He's like in that crew with like Amy Pohlan, Tina
Fey and set Mys. He's really really funny. But just
one of those shows where I've watched four episodes back
to back. You can watch all the episodes now for
season one, and it's like every episode is a standalone.
(03:48):
So it's like the storylines don't really connect at all.
It's just about this mum who's like, no one wants
to stay at my hotel because it's so filled with ghosts.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, and the dead brother.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
The dead Brother's like, I gave you a hotel, so
just be happy that you have a hotel and you
have something to do with your life.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Do you ever get pulled out of the story because
it is animation, because sometimes it happens to me, like
I'm watching it, I'm like I'm all in on this,
but I just need it to be live action for
it to translate into a real story or is it
just so entertaining that it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yeah, it really doesn't matter. Like I'm not watching it.
I'm not like hooked into the storyline, Like I'm not
like massive steaks, like what's gonna happen? Will they live?
Will they die? Will they run away from the serial
killer who's also in an episode?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Spoilers?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
And it's just like, because it's animation, it's just like
such low stakes that I just have it on if
I just really want to laugh.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, okay, the humor would get me. I haven't watched it,
but maybe I will. I would need it to be
really funny, because here's the thing with animation. I can
get on board, but would have to be so funny
that it transcends the animation or the storytelling in the
characters have to be so so good that you forget
it's animated. And there's only two shows that that happens
to me that I watch over and over again that
(04:57):
are animated, that the storytelling is just so good that
even me as a non animated person. Well, X Men
x Men, both the original series and the new one,
because that storytelling is top tier, and I don't want
to say the one. What's the other one. Have you
watched Gargoyles?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yes, I have, obviously because you're a human being with
a that's your favorite.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It's such a good series. I've rewatched it all the time.
The story it's is it? Yeah, I'm like, oh my god, guys.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
The storytelling in Gargoyles.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yeah, the storytelling is incredible. The world building is incredible.
The character is incredible. Not the last season because they
did fire everyone. It comes back as like this, they
haven't drawn the characters properly, so don't watch that. But
up until then, it's so good. The romance is so incredible.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
It's interesting when it gets so attached to an animation
like Bob's Burgers. It's like my favorite favorite animation, like
at Our animation. But I was a bit like taken
aback when they did the Bobs Burgers movie, because they
did they went a bit too hard with the intricacies
with the animation, Like there's like shadows and stuff so
(06:03):
it looks red that it looks visually beautiful, but it
wasn't the Bobs Burgers. That my eye like kind of
like a kid when like you're oh, my god. I
wonder if anyone remembers the TV show American Dragon Jake
the American Dragon.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
No, I don't think I ever watched.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
It was on Disney Channel. It's about this like high
school kid named Jake and he turns into a dragon,
and like, I love that. But then they got different
animators on and then the dragon like him as a
dragon was a different type, like a differently drawn dragon.
Oh okay, and he went into being. And I have
a feeling this is because, like parents might have complained
because the first iteration of him, he's like this sexy
(06:37):
buff dragon with dragons hot. He's so hot.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
The thing that's some of the gargoyles are hot, and
I wonder if that hot it's straight Nope, but the
league the love story is a gargoyle. Yeah, I understand,
But I also do you think sometimes to get into
these shows that you need to watch them as a kid,
Because the only reason I love animated series like X
Men and Gargoyles is because I watched them as a kid,
so I'm rewatching them as an adult.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
I think it's like one of those animations where like
if I had a kid, I'd love them to watch it.
Because they just see the cartoons and they'd laugh and
find funny, but they actually wouldn't understan and anything that's
going on, like they wouldn't understand the jokes. And also
to say that, like Bob's Burger is, and like even
this show like Rick and Morty is like in a
different category, Like I wouldn't suggest a kid watching Rick
and Mardy, but like Haunted Hotel, bobbs Burgers, it's like
(07:22):
really like clever humor that's like for adults, but it's
like not dirty, it's not gross, like they don't like
swear at anything like that. But actually I think they
do swear on Haunted Hotel. Maybe ignore that, but they
don't bubble.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
You'll find out when. You'll find out when you watch it.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
But it's just like one of those shows where I'm
just like laughing, like I'm cackling.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Oh okay, I'm looking for something like that in my life.
I'm looking for more laughter, and I think people are. Anyway,
that was such a long way. Anyway, I think there
was so many recommendations there. Haunted Hotel.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Haunted Hotel on Netflix, first season out now.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Love that, Okay, Mine's also on Netflix, but it could
not be more different. It's a new creepy, atmospheric kind
of thriller drama. Is a cartoon, No, okay, I'm out.
I'm out. Sorry, it's not animated. Maybe you could close
yourize pretend I don't know. Called Wayward that's just come
out of Netflix yesterday.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
In the Hills and Valleys, there is a place where
you're a teenager can grow and thrive. My name is
Evelyn Wade. I'm the lead youth counselor here a Tall
Pines Academy. We use groundbreaking therapeutic techniques to solve the
problem of adolescents.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Okay, So it's this very kind of atmospheric thriller drama
and it's got two different storylines in the first episode.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
So is it hard to like follow a lot?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
No, no, no, it's not hard to follow a lot. There's
so many different characters introduced in the first episode, and
there's so much a mystery of like what the hell
is going on in this creepy little town. But as
you watch it, like very quickly becomes clear, so you know,
stick with it all the way through. So it's set
in two thousand and three in Toronto, and one of
the first storylines we're introduced to are these two like
(09:05):
best best best high school friends Abby and Layla, and
they're kind of like making teens. Like in the first episode,
they're like smoking weed on the top of the school
and they get locked on the roof and they have
to jump into a bin to get down, and it's
this whole thing. Leila's really grappling with her sister's death,
so she's like failing at school and her best friend
Abby has like really really strict parents and like a
(09:27):
perfect sister, and she's kind of dealing with that. And
one of the teachers at school, it's Patrick Jay Adams
from Suits. Yeah, he's only in from moments, so don't
watch it for him, but he suggests to Leila at
one stays that she should try the Tall Pines Academy
because it's no one for like helping very troubled teenagers
who are sent there, and she's like, no, no, no, I'm
going to pull it together. I'm going to get through this.
(09:48):
And then Abby, there's a scene where she goes home
and her parents are like entertaining friends and they have
this altercation where they fight with her and she ends
up like they take her phone. She ends up sneaking
out like in front of them, Like she jumps out
of the window and like runs away. And when she
comes home that night, it's really quite intense to watch
because she's not close to her perfect sister. Sister hugs her,
(10:08):
is like I really love you, and she's like okay,
goes up to her bedrobe, gets into bed. The next
moment she wakes up, there are these men standing over
with her with lights and they gag her and restrain
her and drag her out of the house this fan
and lock her up while her family tearfully watches. Because
she's been taken to Tall Pines like a reform school.
(10:28):
And I know that sounds crazy and dystopian, it's based
on true things that happened. The creative of the show
May Martin, based on a friend who went to a
reform school, and it made me think of how Paris
Hilton was taken to a reform school because a really
similar thing came to her. Like these men came to
Paris Hilton's house because her parents thought she was off
the rails and like dragged her out of there, cooking
and screaming, And that is what has happened to the
(10:51):
friend of this person who made the show, and that's
what happens to a lot of teens who were taken
to There is reform schools that are under huge investigation
now for how they've treated the kids and them that
you just get pulled into the zam while your family watch.
I could not think of anything more terrifying, Jesus, even
to me, potentially worse than just being actually kidnapped, because
your family's watching you and it's helping you and they
(11:11):
called them. So then she gets taken to Tall Pines
and then the other storyline that we see is kind
of creepy town where everyone's aware of Tall Pines Academy
and kids go missing and things are happening. There's also
a scene where like a young boy is like it,
starts running through this wood near the town. Everyone's, yeah,
me too, this this teenage boy, and like everyone's hunting
(11:33):
him and the police are hunting him, and it's this
whole thing because he's, you know, escaped from the academy
and there's terrible things happening there. The other storyline we
have happening there is May Mauntain's character Alex, who has
moved to Tall Pines, This like little town in Vermont
where the Tall Pines Academy is, because Alex has got
a job as a police officer there. Laura's about to
give birch to their baby, and she actually went to
(11:53):
the Tall Pines Academy and she's like, this town will
accept us. This is a safe place. And one of
the reasons she wants to go there is that she
credits Evelyn Wade played by Tony Collette, who's like in
charge of the school with kind of fixing her life.
So Tony Collette is like the principal chilling in this
And we know Tony's so good at horror. She's so
(12:14):
good at horror. It still kills me that she didn't
get at least an Academy a nomination for hereditary. She
should have got an oscar for it, but she didn't
eve get it nomination.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I think it's just the category in general, right, YEA,
Horror is.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
So hard to work, and she's always said that. She
said that, like she takes horror roles or thriller roles
because she gets so invested in the characters, but she
knows that they're not going to be seen as like
prestigious is her other roles. So she plays Evelyn Waye
and she's like in charge of the school and it's
all very chilling. And so the whole thing is like
you've got the police trying to track down what's happening.
You've got these two young girls that have been sent
to this reform school. You've got children escaping, children missing.
(12:49):
People in the town know what's going on or do
they who knows who's covering up what? So it's like
this very atmospheric mystery thriller that takes place in the show.
So that's Wayward Alley though. I think you would really
like it. I think it's like a mystery. Yeah, and
it's not from what I've seen. I haven't watched the
whole thing. I haven't watched the first few episodes. It's
not like overy gory or over really like jump scary
(13:12):
anything like that. Like it's not a horror. It is
like an atmosphere thriller. But you're kind of just like
a whole lot of time just waiting to see, like
the police officer going out and I just standing in
their yard looking around the dog side sparking, and then
like one of the runaway children's like in his home
but needing help, but also like attacks him, you know
what I mean. Like it's that kind of thing where
you're just like, Oh, what's happening now, what's happening now?
(13:32):
So I'm like, yeah, Wayward Near Limited series. It's out
on Netflix now. You can binge it over the weekend
and yeah, it's just a so it's a chilling watch.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Wow. Two great Netflix shows. Yeah, both very about haunting.
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Speaker 2 (14:04):
Lan
So much.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
You're listening to Amma Mia podcast. Mamma Mia acknowledges the
traditional owners of land and waders that this podcast is
recorded on from Mamma Mia. Welcome to this spill your
daily pop culture fix. I'm Laura Broadneck and I'm m
Burnham and welcome to wee can watch.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Our favorite show.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Louis, you said about a lot of things, you say
Britly honored reviews. Your favorite you say, WEE can watch
is your favorite? What's the truth? Emily, what is the truth?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Depending on the brutally honest review? Okay, I feel like
this week might be my favorite this week?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Oh guys, what's dropping at three pm this afternoon? You
are you are not ready?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
You are not ready.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
We are people in this office trying to break down
the door again into this record. They wanted to be involved,
but it's just too many people. Anyway, we can watch
or we talk about the best new movies and TV
shows that have come out this week, and we haven't
really told each other exactly what we're doing this week.
It's all very mysterious.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I didn't even know what I was going to do
this week until today, well, because I was a bit
embarrassed about my weekend one.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Oh okay, I mean this is a safe space. Well, actually,
let's just see what it is. I don't think I
say it's the same space, but I'm the person who
mocks you the most, so maybe it's not.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
So. I've been really into adult animation.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
No judgment. I personally find it very hard to get
behind animation in ninety seven. Well that was different, wasn't
That was just great TV? Great TV goes across something new.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I wanted to try something new, and I've been like obsessed,
Like my favorite shows are Bob's Burgers, Rick and Morty,
Like I just love adult animation. Oh my god. Anyway,
So speaking of Rick and Morty, the writers on that
show have just come out with a brand new show.
And my algorithm knows me so well because it wouldn't
stop feeding me, like it was like watch this. It's
(01:56):
on Netflix. It's called Haunted Hotel.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Welcome to the Underveil. We know about the smell and we're.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Trying I run a haunted hotel where you're now trapped
as a ghost with dozens of other girls.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Ghost, different ghosts.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Ghost Georgie.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
You're cool once you get to know them. Are they
trying to scare me?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Or is that regular booing?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It's a bit of both. Stick with me, Okay, now
I'm there. You know he loves a haunted hotel. Laura Brodnick.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I actually think you'd really like this because it's like
really really because it's for adults, so it's like really
really funny. But yes, it's a cartoon. It is about
this single mum with two kids and she's inherited a
hotel from her dead brother, and that hotel is filled
with ghosts okay, including her dead brother.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Okay, but it's like a comedy. So it's like they're
all well aware that the ghosts of they're the ghosts
keep trying to kill them, and they're so fine with
it because you know what happens when the ghost tries
to kill you, It just goes straight through you.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
So they'll be like eating breakfast and this ghost will
just be like their heads and not and wondering why
they're not dying. But it's really really funny Family dynamics
really funny because it's like the mum and two kids,
but then there's this other kid that they've like adopted
into the family and it's not really a kid. It's
just like this empty corpse that's been invaded by a demon,
and it's just like it's just really good. Like I
(03:25):
just miss like shows where it's just like has a
storyline that's so so bizarre, but like ends up working.
Like will Ford plays a brother. He is so so funny.
He's like in that crew with like Amy Pohlan, Tina
Fey and set Mys. He's really really funny. But just
one of those shows where I've watched four episodes back
to back. You can watch all the episodes now for
season one, and it's like every episode is a standalone.
(03:48):
So it's like the storylines don't really connect at all.
It's just about this mum who's like, no one wants
to stay at my hotel because it's so filled with ghosts.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, and the dead brother.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
The dead Brother's like, I gave you a hotel, so
just be happy that you have a hotel and you
have something to do with your life.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Do you ever get pulled out of the story because
it is animation, because sometimes it happens to me, like
I'm watching it, I'm like I'm all in on this,
but I just need it to be live action for
it to translate into a real story or is it
just so entertaining that it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yeah, it really doesn't matter. Like I'm not watching it.
I'm not like hooked into the storyline, Like I'm not
like massive steaks, like what's gonna happen? Will they live?
Will they die? Will they run away from the serial
killer who's also in an episode?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Spoilers?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
And it's just like, because it's animation, it's just like
such low stakes that I just have it on if
I just really want to laugh.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, okay, the humor would get me. I haven't watched it,
but maybe I will. I would need it to be
really funny, because here's the thing with animation. I can
get on board, but would have to be so funny
that it transcends the animation or the storytelling in the
characters have to be so so good that you forget
it's animated. And there's only two shows that that happens
to me that I watch over and over again that
(04:57):
are animated, that the storytelling is just so good that
even me as a non animated person. Well, X Men
x Men, both the original series and the new one,
because that storytelling is top tier, and I don't want
to say the one. What's the other one. Have you
watched Gargoyles?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yes, I have, obviously because you're a human being with
a that's your favorite.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It's such a good series. I've rewatched it all the time.
The story it's is it? Yeah, I'm like, oh my god, guys.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
The storytelling in Gargoyles.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yeah, the storytelling is incredible. The world building is incredible.
The character is incredible. Not the last season because they
did fire everyone. It comes back as like this, they
haven't drawn the characters properly, so don't watch that. But
up until then, it's so good. The romance is so incredible.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
It's interesting when it gets so attached to an animation
like Bob's Burgers. It's like my favorite favorite animation, like
at Our animation. But I was a bit like taken
aback when they did the Bobs Burgers movie, because they
did they went a bit too hard with the intricacies
with the animation, Like there's like shadows and stuff so
(06:03):
it looks red that it looks visually beautiful, but it
wasn't the Bobs Burgers. That my eye like kind of
like a kid when like you're oh, my god. I
wonder if anyone remembers the TV show American Dragon Jake
the American Dragon.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
No, I don't think I ever watched.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
It was on Disney Channel. It's about this like high
school kid named Jake and he turns into a dragon,
and like, I love that. But then they got different
animators on and then the dragon like him as a
dragon was a different type, like a differently drawn dragon.
Oh okay, and he went into being. And I have
a feeling this is because, like parents might have complained
because the first iteration of him, he's like this sexy
(06:37):
buff dragon with dragons hot. He's so hot.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
The thing that's some of the gargoyles are hot, and
I wonder if that hot it's straight Nope, but the
league the love story is a gargoyle. Yeah, I understand,
But I also do you think sometimes to get into
these shows that you need to watch them as a kid,
Because the only reason I love animated series like X
Men and Gargoyles is because I watched them as a kid,
so I'm rewatching them as an adult.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
I think it's like one of those animations where like
if I had a kid, I'd love them to watch it.
Because they just see the cartoons and they'd laugh and
find funny, but they actually wouldn't understan and anything that's
going on, like they wouldn't understand the jokes. And also
to say that, like Bob's Burger is, and like even
this show like Rick and Morty is like in a
different category, Like I wouldn't suggest a kid watching Rick
and Mardy, but like Haunted Hotel, bobbs Burgers, it's like
(07:22):
really like clever humor that's like for adults, but it's
like not dirty, it's not gross, like they don't like
swear at anything like that. But actually I think they
do swear on Haunted Hotel. Maybe ignore that, but they
don't bubble.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
You'll find out when. You'll find out when you watch it.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
But it's just like one of those shows where I'm
just like laughing, like I'm cackling.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Oh okay, I'm looking for something like that in my life.
I'm looking for more laughter, and I think people are. Anyway,
that was such a long way. Anyway, I think there
was so many recommendations there. Haunted Hotel.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Haunted Hotel on Netflix, first season out now.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Love that, Okay, Mine's also on Netflix, but it could
not be more different. It's a new creepy, atmospheric kind
of thriller drama. Is a cartoon, No, okay, I'm out.
I'm out. Sorry, it's not animated. Maybe you could close
yourize pretend I don't know. Called Wayward that's just come
out of Netflix yesterday.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
In the Hills and Valleys, there is a place where
you're a teenager can grow and thrive. My name is
Evelyn Wade. I'm the lead youth counselor here a Tall
Pines Academy. We use groundbreaking therapeutic techniques to solve the
problem of adolescents.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Okay, So it's this very kind of atmospheric thriller drama
and it's got two different storylines in the first episode.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
So is it hard to like follow a lot?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
No, no, no, it's not hard to follow a lot. There's
so many different characters introduced in the first episode, and
there's so much a mystery of like what the hell
is going on in this creepy little town. But as
you watch it, like very quickly becomes clear, so you know,
stick with it all the way through. So it's set
in two thousand and three in Toronto, and one of
the first storylines we're introduced to are these two like
(09:05):
best best best high school friends Abby and Layla, and
they're kind of like making teens. Like in the first episode,
they're like smoking weed on the top of the school
and they get locked on the roof and they have
to jump into a bin to get down, and it's
this whole thing. Leila's really grappling with her sister's death,
so she's like failing at school and her best friend
Abby has like really really strict parents and like a
(09:27):
perfect sister, and she's kind of dealing with that. And
one of the teachers at school, it's Patrick Jay Adams
from Suits. Yeah, he's only in from moments, so don't
watch it for him, but he suggests to Leila at
one stays that she should try the Tall Pines Academy
because it's no one for like helping very troubled teenagers
who are sent there, and she's like, no, no, no, I'm
going to pull it together. I'm going to get through this.
(09:48):
And then Abby, there's a scene where she goes home
and her parents are like entertaining friends and they have
this altercation where they fight with her and she ends
up like they take her phone. She ends up sneaking
out like in front of them, Like she jumps out
of the window and like runs away. And when she
comes home that night, it's really quite intense to watch
because she's not close to her perfect sister. Sister hugs her,
(10:08):
is like I really love you, and she's like okay,
goes up to her bedrobe, gets into bed. The next
moment she wakes up, there are these men standing over
with her with lights and they gag her and restrain
her and drag her out of the house this fan
and lock her up while her family tearfully watches. Because
she's been taken to Tall Pines like a reform school.
(10:28):
And I know that sounds crazy and dystopian, it's based
on true things that happened. The creative of the show
May Martin, based on a friend who went to a
reform school, and it made me think of how Paris
Hilton was taken to a reform school because a really
similar thing came to her. Like these men came to
Paris Hilton's house because her parents thought she was off
the rails and like dragged her out of there, cooking
and screaming, And that is what has happened to the
(10:51):
friend of this person who made the show, and that's
what happens to a lot of teens who were taken
to There is reform schools that are under huge investigation
now for how they've treated the kids and them that
you just get pulled into the zam while your family watch.
I could not think of anything more terrifying, Jesus, even
to me, potentially worse than just being actually kidnapped, because
your family's watching you and it's helping you and they
(11:11):
called them. So then she gets taken to Tall Pines
and then the other storyline that we see is kind
of creepy town where everyone's aware of Tall Pines Academy
and kids go missing and things are happening. There's also
a scene where like a young boy is like it,
starts running through this wood near the town. Everyone's, yeah,
me too, this this teenage boy, and like everyone's hunting
(11:33):
him and the police are hunting him, and it's this
whole thing because he's, you know, escaped from the academy
and there's terrible things happening there. The other storyline we
have happening there is May Mauntain's character Alex, who has
moved to Tall Pines, This like little town in Vermont
where the Tall Pines Academy is, because Alex has got
a job as a police officer there. Laura's about to
give birch to their baby, and she actually went to
(11:53):
the Tall Pines Academy and she's like, this town will
accept us. This is a safe place. And one of
the reasons she wants to go there is that she
credits Evelyn Wade played by Tony Collette, who's like in
charge of the school with kind of fixing her life.
So Tony Collette is like the principal chilling in this
And we know Tony's so good at horror. She's so
(12:14):
good at horror. It still kills me that she didn't
get at least an Academy a nomination for hereditary. She
should have got an oscar for it, but she didn't
eve get it nomination.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I think it's just the category in general, right, YEA,
Horror is.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
So hard to work, and she's always said that. She
said that, like she takes horror roles or thriller roles
because she gets so invested in the characters, but she
knows that they're not going to be seen as like
prestigious is her other roles. So she plays Evelyn Waye
and she's like in charge of the school and it's
all very chilling. And so the whole thing is like
you've got the police trying to track down what's happening.
You've got these two young girls that have been sent
to this reform school. You've got children escaping, children missing.
(12:49):
People in the town know what's going on or do
they who knows who's covering up what? So it's like
this very atmospheric mystery thriller that takes place in the show.
So that's Wayward Alley though. I think you would really
like it. I think it's like a mystery. Yeah, and
it's not from what I've seen. I haven't watched the
whole thing. I haven't watched the first few episodes. It's
not like overy gory or over really like jump scary
(13:12):
anything like that. Like it's not a horror. It is
like an atmosphere thriller. But you're kind of just like
a whole lot of time just waiting to see, like
the police officer going out and I just standing in
their yard looking around the dog side sparking, and then
like one of the runaway children's like in his home
but needing help, but also like attacks him, you know
what I mean. Like it's that kind of thing where
you're just like, Oh, what's happening now, what's happening now?
(13:32):
So I'm like, yeah, Wayward Near Limited series. It's out
on Netflix now. You can binge it over the weekend
and yeah, it's just a so it's a chilling watch.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Wow. Two great Netflix shows. Yeah, both very about haunting.
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Speaker 2 (14:04):
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