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SUBURBAKNIGHT: Act Two
Walter Knope has finally discovered the one thing worse than suspecting your new neighbor is a sex demon.
Being right.
Inside Richard's immaculate house, Walter gets the confirmation he was looking for. The Maitlands are dead. Richard isn't human. And he isn't just interested in Samantha.
He wants everything Walter has.
Walter tries to warn Sam. It goes badly.
What starts as an argument about Richard quickly becomes an argument about money, sex, failure, jealousy and every other thing a married couple has been politely not saying out loud. Sam packs a bag. Walter, terrified Richard will get to her, practically helps her leave.
Written by Nick Bannister, SUBURBAKNIGHT is a wicked suburban horror-comedy about marriage, masculinity and what happens when your midlife crisis actually grows horns.
Walter needs someone who understands monsters.
Enter Bobby Joe Williams.
Local horror host. Full-time drunk. Part-time monster expert. Possibly the least reassuring person you could want standing between your family and eternal damnation.
Bobby Joe confirms the bad news. Richard is an incubus. He feeds on souls, controls his victims through desire and, unfortunately, appears to be immortal.
Meanwhile, Richard has already started remaking the neighborhood.
Walter goes looking for Andy and instead finds him dead in the bathtub, his wife Alli transformed into something considerably less neighborly. Walter barely escapes with his life.
Then Samantha comes home.
Richard is waiting.
This time, Sam sees him too.
When Richard finally drops the charm and shows them what he really is, he offers Walter everything he ever wanted. Money. Freedom. A fresh start.
All he wants in return is Samantha.
Walter says no.
Then Mia introduces Richard's face to a medieval mace.
For a moment, it feels like the Knopes may actually have this thing under control.
Then Richard takes their daughter.
Now Walter and Sam are done running. They need Mia back. They need help.
Unfortunately, the closest thing they have to a professional is Bobby Joe Williams in boxer shorts drinking margarita straight from a blender pitcher.
So they do what any responsible parents would do.
They raid the failed antique business.
Crossbow. Mace. Axe. Sword. Armor.
Walter's junk has finally found a purpose.
And across the street, Richard is waiting.
Starring Darin Toonder, Jim O'Heir, Jade Tailor, Jack Daniel, Rob Fitzgerald, Logan Laurel, Emily Brolin, Ashley Platz, and Zeke Alton.
Produced by Table Read Podcast and Manifest Media Productions, LLC.
Executive Produced by Jack Levy, Shaan Sharma, and Mark Knell.
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Rico Gagliano (MUBI Podcast) joins Adam and Josh for the Top 5 Needle Drops, a conversation so robust we split it in half. Plus, the new It Ends earns a Golden Brick nomination, and listeners tell us the best third feature since 2020.
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Intro (00:00:00-00:02:37)
Rico Gagliano Welcome / Top 5 Intro (00:02:38-00:24:52)
Top 5 Needle Drops (#5-4) (00:24:53-01:02:51)
Filmspotting Family (01:02:52-01:07:33)
Golden Brickspotting: It Ends (01:07:34-01:18:20)
Polls (01:18:21-01:33:27)
Credits / Releases (01:33:28-1:37:57)
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David Robert Mitchell’s The End of Oak Street drops an ordinary family into extraordinary circumstances, forcing them to focus all their energy on surviving— and maybe, just maybe, learning to understand each other along the way. That structure, combined with Oak Street’s Spielbergian spectacle, pointed us toward 2005’s War of the Worlds, which fuses H.G. Wells’ 1898 novel to images and emotions that draw on the attacks of 9/11. How that approach holds up a quarter-century removed from the events that inspired it is up for discussion this week, along with where War of the Worlds falls on the Steven Spielberg Alien-Encounter Continuum, and just how close that sentimental ending comes to ruining the movie entirely. Then in Feedback, a listener, with an assist from Orson Welles, invites us to get galaxy-brained on the nature of homage as it relates to cinema generally and this podcast specifically.
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In 2023, Adam and Josh took another look at 1988's Midnight Run for its 35th anniversary. The Robert De Niro/Charles Grodin action comedy was an early and somewhat controversial inductee in the Filmspotting Pantheon, a decision they use their conversation to defend.
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Happy Madison Productions is now cranking out movies starring two generations of Sandlers: paterfamilias Adam and daughters Sadie and Sunny. Earlier this year, Sadie starred in Netflix’s college-set Roommates, and now it’s Sunny’s turn in Don’t Say Good Luck, a tear-jerker that pairs family drama with high school musical drama. And it’s a pairing that Matt and Jordan agree works pretty well, thanks to the director Julia Hart (Fast Color, I’m Your Woman), solid work from Sandler, and a great performance by Melanie Lynskey as Sunny’s mom. Plus, a “Nepo Baby” streaming rec from Matt, and one from Jordan for a forgotten Oscar-winning Canadian film from the early 2000s. And Matt hosts another round of Portmanteau-to-Toe.
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Don’t Say Good Luck (00:03:17–00:24:27)
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Game: Portmanteau-to-Toe (00:39:08–00:58:57)
Mailbag / New to Streaming / Credits (00:58:58–01:11:25)
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