There are a lot of noir crime thrillers in the world, but most modern ones have a problem digging too deeply into the noir part of the equation. “Killing them softly” does away with the winding plot and instead gives a simple premise, with a simple resolution, and a world so real in its crappiness you can kind of smell it. Maybe it’s a grime thriller? It’s certainly the best at it if you’re into this sort of thing.
0:00 - Intros
3:30 - Monster: The Ed Gein story (Netflix, 2025)
7:35 - Devil In Disguise: John Wayne Gacy (Peacock, 2025)
9:35 - Little Evil (Netflix, 2017)
12:45 - Palm Royale (Apple TV)
20:00 - Dune pts. 1 and 2 (2021, 2024)
33:45 - Killing Them Softly
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There are a lot of noir crime thrillers in the world, but most modern ones have a problem digging too deeply into the noir part of the equation. “Killing them softly” does away with the winding plot and instead gives a simple premise, with a simple resolution, and a world so real in its crappiness you can kind of smell it. Maybe it’s a grime thriller? It’s certainly the best at it if you’re into this sort of thing.
0:00 - Intros
3:30 - Monster: The Ed Gein story (Netflix, 2025)
7:35 - Devil In Disguise: John Wayne Gacy (Peacock, 2025)
9:35 - Little Evil (Netflix, 2017)
12:45 - Palm Royale (Apple TV)
20:00 - Dune pts. 1 and 2 (2021, 2024)
33:45 - Killing Them Softly
What do you get when you take a creatively brilliant director, give him all the leeway he wants, resulting in a film that is a commercial failure but a sleeper hit? You get a very pissed off John Carpenter is what you get. Despite a career of culturally significant awesomeness - “Starman,” “The Thing,” being Adrienne Barbeau’s husband - all it took was some big trouble in Little China for funding to dry up. With that comes the shot-on-a-shoestring horror classic, “Prince of Darkness.” It is an acquired taste, as you will see. As usual, we also talk about a bunch of other stuff we’ve been watching, because this is a podcast, and that’s what you do.
0:00 - Intros
7:25 - Superman (2025)
18:45 - Hacks (HBO)
23:20 - The Studio (Apple TV)
27:00 - Strange New Worlds (Paramount)
29:30 - Robocop: Rogue City (Xbox)
36:00 - John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness (1987)
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There are a lot of noir crime thrillers in the world, but most modern ones have a problem digging too deeply into the noir part of the equation. “Killing them softly” does away with the winding plot and instead gives a simple premise, with a simple resolution, and a world so real in its crappiness you can kind of smell it. Maybe it’s a grime thriller? It’s certainly the best at it if you’re into this sort of thing.
0:00 - Intros
3:30 - Monster: The Ed Gein story (Netflix, 2025)
7:35 - Devil In Disguise: John Wayne Gacy (Peacock, 2025)
9:35 - Little Evil (Netflix, 2017)
12:45 - Palm Royale (Apple TV)
20:00 - Dune pts. 1 and 2 (2021, 2024)
33:45 - Killing Them Softly
