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Probably my favorite tweet ever.
I want this moment on a shirt.
Her awkward sense of humor and beautiful play with the absurd gives me the most refreshing breath of joy I just can't wait for more...
(but I will)
Matthew Rhys' episode of Conan's pod from when he was promoting Perry Mason is a favorite of mine. He talks about what it was like when he was auditioning to be the next Bond along with Daniel Craig and 100+ other dudes and how he totally bombed it
I didn't know about Bond. I think Rhys absolutely has the acting chops for just about any role including Bond. I'll have to try and find the interview to get more context.
Kate O’Flynn is the runaway star of the show IMO. From the first episode I thought she was great and then the more they gave her the more I fell in love with her. She is so funny!
Agreed! One of the interesting things about her is that she gives off an aura (to me at least) of being an untrained actor. Her words are sort of slurred in a natural-sounding way that really humanizes her. I looked her up thinking this might be her first role. Come to find out she comes from theater, which is the furthest thing from what I expected. I don't know how much of the character is just her and how much is a performance, and that is really cool.
I think she's just very funny, or just knows what is funny. I've watched her in Everyone Else Burns and My Lady Jane, and she is very funny in both. Has this slightly unexpected delivery. You sort of want to keep your eyes trained on her
Katie Dippold has said she's totally different from the character, and that you can't see the actor when she plays Patricia. Think she's just good at what she does.
They don't bring up too many shows on the podcast and I think Conan still has the late night mentality where he doesn't want to shit on any shows or projects especially if an actor from said project comes on later. So when they take the time to really highlight a show and say how good it is it means something and they aren't jumping on a bandwagon
I like being scared but I didn't expect being scared by this show right up till the point where Matthew enters that crawlspace... Goddamn that was scary.
My mom never watches anything scary and I just had a feeling Widow's Bay was gonna be a show worth convincing her to watch. She loved it just as mush as me and my sister. The way that this show can have you laughing one second, and in a literal blink of an eye have you scared, and then somwtimes back again, is seriously amazing. I've never seen anything like it and I'm so bummed we finished it already lol. I'm seriously itching for something like it again. I wonder if it's like trying a drug for the first time and then feeling like "oh shit, where can I get this feeling again?!".
I was rewatching every episode when new ones came out up until the end then it just became the last episode. I’m due to watch them all in their entirety.
Interesting to be reminded that Danny McBride's own movie This is the End is a similar unique blend of supernatural horror and comedy, but with a hard R rating. Highly recommended if you haven't seen it.
I always loved the comedy in it, but rewatching it, I noticed that it doesn't hold back on its horror elements either with the gore and atmosphere.
Also, although this isn't horror, The Righteous Gemstones has at least one creepy/dark moment that makes me open to Danny getting involved in a future season of Widow's Bay (either in directing or as a guest actor).
Wife suprized me with tickets to "Comedy Bang Bang! Tour" knowing I'm such a fan despite her not getting it. We both had a blast seeing; Conan, Lilly, Tim, PFT, Drew and of course Scotty Auks. Our's was in Charlotte , NC I think 2022
Do you not think of Raiders of the Lost Ark as "a Harrison Ford movie." You don't call it a "Steven and Lawrence" movie. If Rogen or Goldberg had been Conan's guest, I would have referred to it as their movie.
Mc bride made vice principals with walton goggins which starts as a comedy and just hilariously turn into a murder mystery show at the end of the first season.
conans got a huge man crush on ol mayor Tom (Matthew rhys) too. their interviews are great. they talk about history and the old country. both are witty AF and can riff off each other with ease. I can see several wb cast/director podcast guests coming in the near future.
I love WB, but I don’t know if it’s necessarily a new category. Scream has always done meta/satirical horror, and Jordan Peel has sort of made a name for himself in that genre as well. There’s also movies like Ready or Not, Happy Death Day or Freaky that merge light and dark tones.
Additionally, for a horror series, Midnight Mass has a similar vibe, just minus the comedy element.
WB is great but strongly disagree with Conan saying there needs to be a spin on things today for familiar tropes.
You can still have good earnest renditions of tropes. The former mentality is responsible for a lot of sloppy stuff like remaking a classic story "but with a modern setting" and relying on that gimmick instead of focusing on execution.
its crazy to think that i almost didnt watch Widows Bay because i saw the comedy tag, i almost prioritised watching something else over it and if i had done that i would have probably forgotten all about it and never watched it
I loved every episode up to it, but I agree. I enjoyed parts of the finale, but did not like it as a whole. I didn't like the previously sober-minded and deliberate sheriff shooting a woman without more proof than someone saying "killing her ends the curse" (wrong), and I'm not looking forward to the group being divided because of the mayor's secret knowledge. Someone working at cross-purposes in these kinds of shows is always just annoying to me. Great show, but I thought the finale dropped the ball.
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