Strange Highways

This week Terry and Paul kick of the start of season 3 of the 80's iteration of the Twilight Zone by meeting Mr. Edgar Witherspoon, an eccentric old man that scours the neighborhood and its residents seeking random items at varying times of the day. When Dr. Jeremy Sinclair goes to check on Edgar's mental health, he finds out what all of those objects are being used for... Added Bonus: Terry wraps up Moist Boi Summer™ with a oceanic quiz for Paul.   

This week Terry and Paul wrap up Moist Boi Summer™ by celebrating the life of recently passed Donald Sutherland with 1999's Virus. A crew of a slowly sinking tugboat come across a Russian research vessel that has plenty of blood and evidence of violence but no one is alive on it,  they decide to board it in hopes of finding anything of value...  

This week Terry and Paul take another voyage at sea and are joined by Richard and El Goro of The Talk Without Rhythm Podcast to talk about Alfred Hitchcock's 1944 film, Lifeboat. After a German U-boat sinks a commercial vessel, eight Americans of various walks and class wait for rescue along with one German officer in a damaged life boat. Tensions flare as supplies run out with little hope of being found...

This week Terry and Paul take to the seas again with 1998's Deep Rising. What do you get when you mix a heist movie with a disaster movie with a monster film? We still aren't quite sure, and Deep Rising isn't quite sure either. We can all agree that Treat Williams riding a jet ski inside a sinking ocean liner while firing a shotgun at a very large tentacle monster is really cool though...  

We kick off Moist Boi Summer™ by booking two tickets on 1972's The Poseidon Adventure. A an aging ship on its last voyage is hit by a massive wave that causes it to turn complete upside down. Those that remain alive have two choices, wait for help to arrive or to try to work their way to the bottom (now top) of the ship as it is rapidly sinking into the ocean... 

This week Terry and Paul continue on their detours and visit The Outer Limits. They meet Trent, a man who is being chased for reasons he does not know and has a glass hand missing three fingers. As he starts to recover the lost pieces, his purpose is slowly revealed to him... 

This week Terry and Paul continue their detours with a trip back to Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities with Lot 36. Nick makes his money off of bidding on abandoned storage units and the remains of those people's lives. What he finds in Lot 36 is more than he could have ever bargained for...

This week Terry and Paul continue their detours by heading to 1977 via the 2023 film, Late Night with the Devil. Jack Delroy is a night time TV talk show host who's star is fading and needs something big to get back on top. He books a young lady that is the sole survivor of a satanic cult that killed themselves and believes she has a demon inside her... 

This week Terry and Paul continue their detours but revisiting the original series with season 2's The Obsolete Man. Does the story of one man being on trial against The State for the crime of being a librarian still resonate today? Spoilers: It does.    Here's the link for the episode of Talk Without Rhythm that Paul was on that was mentioned during the show; https://tworpodcast.blogspot.com/2024/04/episode-717-black-sunday-1977-and.html

This week Terry and Paul continue their detours and head north to Maine with 1979's Prophecy. A papermill wants to expand their logging operations. The native people want to keep the papermill out of their ancestral home. A mutant bear just wants to eat everyone regardless of their position on the logging issue...  

This week Terry and Paul continue their detours and head to the darkside and meet Mrs. Katie Weiderman, a loving mother and supportive wife. When she gets a static filled phone call that is from someone clearly distraught but sounds familiar to her, Katie won't let it go until she figures out who the caller is... 

This week Terry and Paul take another detour with 1989's Shocker. A serial killer who focuses on murdering entire families, Horace Pinker, is finally caught and sent to the electric chair. However, death is only the beginning of his reign of terror...

This week Terry and Paul take a detour to the Netflix animated anthology series, Love Death + Robots. They meet the crew of a ship that is in the middle of a nasty storm, when an unwanted passenger suddenly comes on board....

This week Terry and Paul are joined by friend of the show Richard to take a look back across season two of the 80's iteration of the Twilight Zone. They cover their Bottom 5, Middlin'/Frustrating 5, and Top 5 segments of the season.  Thanks to everyone that has joined us in this very long journey through this season. 2 down, 1 to go! 

Season 2 Finale! This week Terry and Paul meet Mr. Ira Richman, a successful corporate environmental lawyer that is pining for the younger and more care free version of his wife, Valerie.  When the younger Valerie shows up, he does not hesitate to follow her every whim...  

This week Terry and Paul make some poor life decisions and end up at a reformatory for wayward boys and meet Tanner, a young man that has fallen in love with the warden's daughter, Amy. Their relationship is forbidden but Amy thinks she has found a way for them to be free in the pages of a very old book... 

This week Terry and Paul head to a distant dead planet called Earth. There they meet an exploration crew that are there to survey the remains for any salvageable materials when one of them finds out that Earth might not be so dead after all... 

This week Terry and Paul awkwardly meet Mr. Bluestone, a very successful Broadway composer that has just died. Given an opportunity by a party on the other side to go anywhere in time and space, Bluestone chooses to back to his senior year in high school to try and have sex with his crush. We apologize for typing those words...

This week Terry and Paul get stuck in a homemade bomb shelter with Mr. Harry Dobbs, a man who believes that the world would better off if nuclear war actually happened. When he seemingly gets his wish, Harry knows all he has to do is wait for the radiation levels to drop before going outside again...

This week Terry and Paul get on a plane and meet the most annoying teenager in the world, Keith Barnes. Obnoxious, rude, and constantly tapping his drumsticks on everything around him. When his personal radio gets zapped during a lightning strike to the plane, he can suddenly start hearing the thoughts of those around him....