MISERY (1990) Movie Reaction! | First Time Watch | James Caan | Kathy Bates | Rob Reiner

Añadido: 2026-05-12

[00:00:02]I am in misery. There ain't nobody who can comfort me.

[00:00:10]>> Okay. Anyway, with the title, I couldn't resist.

[00:00:16]Hello ladies and gentlemen. It is your friendly neighborhood Michael Boo joined today by Ally Reagan. We are jumping in with misery. Very excited. I've heard lots of good things including uh Kathy Bates's performance is award-winning.

[00:00:29]awardwinning.

[00:00:29]>> I mean, I think she's award-winning in every single movie that she does, >> everything she ever does.

[00:00:33]>> So, I'm very excited to see the one that netted her a proper award. Looking forward to it. If y'all are excited to watch along with us, but you want the uncut, uninterrupted version of our reaction, cuz as you all know, you will be watching a cut down version of our reaction here on YouTube. You can get the full version, >> just the bits and pieces.

[00:00:48]>> Just the bits and pieces, the highlight reel, so to speak. Ain't nothing wrong with watching over here on YouTube, but if you want the full uncut version, you can get that over at our Patreon page, patreon.com/sajjump or cinnjump.com. Both URLs will get you there. Once you're there, you will need your own copy of the film we are watching via Netflix, but wherever you can find it. Just pull it up side by side with our reaction. We give you a handy 3 2 1 countdown. And then it's like you're watching with two of your best pals from the internet. Two of your best matchy pals are both wearing green.

[00:01:12]Very excited to get into it. Let's uh let's have a miserable time together.

[00:01:16]>> Oo, I like the font.

[00:01:18]>> It's a little spooky.

[00:01:20]>> Robin, that makes sense.

[00:01:22]>> I don't think this is a comedy.

[00:01:24]>> I mean, I'm >> Oh, Robin. Yeah, some some Stephen Kings are they do have funny bits.

[00:01:32]>> They do have funny bits. It's true.

[00:01:34]Stephen King is all about the bits, you know.

[00:01:36]>> Ste Stephen King is just all around great. Sometimes there's comedy in there.

[00:01:41]>> Sometimes there's comedy in there.

[00:01:43]>> It's Buddy's dad from Elf.

[00:01:47]I >> like how he writes it in pencil, too.

[00:01:49]Look at his ease. Those are fantastic.

[00:01:54]>> Do you think that's his handwriting? How how often do you think they >> I'm sure that was actually >> Yeah, >> that might have been his his hand.

[00:02:04]>> Celebrating finishing the book at least.

[00:02:07]>> Send it to your editor.

[00:02:09]>> The one cigarette he's allowed.

[00:02:11]>> Mhm.

[00:02:12]>> Damn. With your thumb. That's so cool.

[00:02:14]That's such a badass little party.

[00:02:16]>> That's so cool.

[00:02:19]>> The Mustang. Make it a snowball.

[00:02:24]>> Nice. Nailed it. Strike. Still got it.

[00:02:29]>> Oh, that's a hell of a road to be driving that fast on.

[00:02:32]>> Yeah. In that old Mustang.

[00:02:36]I don't know. I don't know what year this is set in or shot in.

[00:02:39]>> Well, it came out in 1990. So, >> okay.

[00:02:43]>> Feeling good.

[00:02:44]>> Kathy Bates >> coming down the mountain.

[00:02:46]>> So, this would have been before Annie.

[00:02:48]>> Yes. And >> this is going to get me a lot of flack and I know that. But that Annie is my favorite Annie.

[00:02:55]>> Oh no.

[00:02:56]>> I have seen the one with Carol Brunette.

[00:02:58]It's fantastic.

[00:03:00]>> Oh, it's getting gnarly out.

[00:03:02]>> Yeah. Are we at the part where you have to turn down the music so you can see better?

[00:03:06]>> Yep. I'm familiar with that. Very, very familiar.

[00:03:10]Stop talking. I can't see the road.

[00:03:12]>> I can't see.

[00:03:15]>> Manuscript.

[00:03:17]>> Yeah. Yeah. Make sure.

[00:03:19]>> Damn. M >> Well, at least the snow cushioned the fall, right?

[00:03:29]I love the dead silence after the funky intro.

[00:03:32]>> Mhm. With just the bright red credits.

[00:03:38]>> What's that?

[00:03:40]>> Old friend.

[00:03:41]>> Oh, flashback.

[00:03:42]>> Yeah, >> it's got characters.

[00:03:45]>> I wrote my first book. I used to carry it around in this while I was looking for a publisher. I was a writer then.

[00:03:51]>> You're still a writer.

[00:03:52]>> I was a writer then.

[00:03:53]>> A writer since I got in the misery business.

[00:03:56]>> Not a bad business.

[00:03:58]>> First printing for Misery's Child was the most ever.

[00:04:01]>> Over a million.

[00:04:02]>> Misery's Child.

[00:04:04]>> Misery Chastain put braces on your daughter's teeth and is putting her through college.

[00:04:09]And what thanks did she get? Go and kill her.

[00:04:12]>> I never meant for it to become my life.

[00:04:15]>> I didn't. I wanted to write other characters.

[00:04:18]No, I'm leaving for Colorado to try to finish the new book.

[00:04:22]>> If I can make this work, I might just have something I want on my tombstone.

[00:04:27]>> Oh, successful author isn't enough.

[00:04:30]>> Loving father, >> right?

[00:04:35]>> Beloved husband.

[00:04:38]>> Okay.

[00:04:39]>> Here to save the day.

[00:04:40]>> Woo!

[00:04:42]>> Damn. Scratch the paint, why don't you drag him out? Yeah.

[00:04:50]>> Ow. The bloody nose.

[00:04:53]>> It's crazy how much >> CPR has changed.

[00:04:55]>> CPR has changed cuz now you don't even do the rescue breaths. You just do chest compressions.

[00:04:59]>> You just do Yeah.

[00:05:03]>> I don't know. I have one of those bubble things from when I was a lifeguard.

[00:05:06]>> Oh, really? Cool.

[00:05:08]>> So, yeah. If something happens, they can't. There's no transfer of fluid.

[00:05:12]>> Fluids.

[00:05:14]>> Mhm.

[00:05:15]I'm not saying that I want to use it, but I could.

[00:05:19]>> But you got it. You got it on me. If I have to, I could.

[00:05:22]>> Heard. Appreciate it.

[00:05:24]>> I'm your number one fan.

[00:05:26]>> Oh, God.

[00:05:27]>> You're going to be just fine.

[00:05:29]>> Oh, thank God.

[00:05:30]>> I'll take good care of you.

[00:05:33]>> I'm your number one fan.

[00:05:36]>> Hello.

[00:05:38]>> Where?

[00:05:41]>> We're just outside Silver Creek.

[00:05:43]>> She's so young. really young. Oh my god.

[00:05:46]>> Oh, you've been here two days.

[00:05:48]>> Two days.

[00:05:49]>> My name is Annie Wilks.

[00:05:51]>> My number one fan.

[00:05:54]>> My number one fan.

[00:05:56]>> I'm also a nurse.

[00:05:57]>> Oh, thank God. How convenient.

[00:05:59]>> Take these.

[00:06:02]>> Giggles and Stephen King knowledge.

[00:06:05]>> Yeah, right.

[00:06:09]>> Passes back out. Part of he's like, I don't trust a single pill that you're giving me because I'm not at a hospital.

[00:06:13]But >> I mean, but you saw that storm.

[00:06:16]>> Yeah. What else are you going to do?

[00:06:19]>> They're little cute artworks.

[00:06:21]>> And it's bright and sunny. Nothing bad happens when it's sunny.

[00:06:25]>> They're called Novel. They're for your pain.

[00:06:27]>> Okay.

[00:06:28]>> They make you pass out.

[00:06:29]>> I come on that hospital.

[00:06:31]>> The blizzard was too strong.

[00:06:32]>> Yeah.

[00:06:33]>> I tried calling, but the phone lines are down.

[00:06:35]>> She did shle you up a mountain side, which I think is super impressive.

[00:06:40]>> You got to rest.

[00:06:43]He almost died.

[00:06:44]>> Girls got strength >> in spades.

[00:06:47]>> Makes a pass out. Telling you. Every time he takes a bill. What a beautiful house.

[00:06:50]>> Colorado.

[00:06:51]>> He is improving. But >> Mhm.

[00:06:53]>> How long has he been out now?

[00:06:55]>> Will I be able to walk?

[00:06:56]>> Of course you will. And your arm will be fine, too.

[00:06:59]>> Thank God.

[00:07:00]>> Your shoulder was pretty badly dislocated. It's a little stubborn when I finally popped it back in.

[00:07:05]>> Finally popped it.

[00:07:07]>> Considering what I had around the house, I don't think there's a doctor who could have done any better. Oh, God.

[00:07:12]>> It's not nearly as bad as it looks.

[00:07:14]>> That swelling.

[00:07:15]>> Yo, >> you have a compound fracture of the tibia in both legs and the fibula in the right leg is fractured, too.

[00:07:22]>> Oh my lord.

[00:07:24]>> And as soon as the road's open, I'll take you to a hospital.

[00:07:28]>> Yeah. And they'll like really go in and check it.

[00:07:30]>> Uh-huh.

[00:07:31]>> I'd like to speak to the Silver Creek Chief of Police or Sheriff.

[00:07:34]>> Which one of them do you want?

[00:07:36]>> Whichever one's not busy.

[00:07:37]>> Well, I'm pretty sure they're both not busy, Miss Synindelle. Since they're both me.

[00:07:41]>> They're both me.

[00:07:44]>> I think one of my clients, Paul Sheldon, might be in some kind of trouble.

[00:07:49]>> You mean Paul Sheldon?

[00:07:50]>> Thanks for looking out me out for me, Ryder.

[00:07:52]>> They said he checked out last Tuesday.

[00:07:54]>> Last Tuesday? It's been a week.

[00:07:56]>> I don't know. Did he usually phone you before he checks out of a hotel?

[00:08:02]>> No, of course not.

[00:08:03]>> He should be back by now.

[00:08:04]>> He should be back by now. Uh, when he has a new book coming out, he usually keeps in touch.

[00:08:10]>> Oh, well, there wasn't any word from him. Uh, >> you think he might be missing, huh?

[00:08:14]>> Mhm.

[00:08:15]>> Hate that I made this call.

[00:08:17]>> Tell me I'm being silly.

[00:08:19]>> No.

[00:08:20]>> Overprotective, maybe. But >> people disappear in Colorado all the time.

[00:08:23]>> All the time. People disappear everywhere all the time.

[00:08:26]>> I'll put his name through our system.

[00:08:30]If anything turns up, I'll call you.

[00:08:32]>> Through our system.

[00:08:34]We got a phone call. Busy morning.

[00:08:37]>> Busy morning.

[00:08:38]>> Virginia, when was that blizzard?

[00:08:41]>> Last Tuesday. What?

[00:08:45]>> No reason.

[00:08:47]>> Yes reason.

[00:08:48]>> Yes reason. Something's up.

[00:08:51]>> Oh god, the straight razor.

[00:08:54]>> I guess it was kind of a miracle you finding me.

[00:08:57]>> I've always wanted a straight razor shave.

[00:08:59]>> No, it wasn't a miracle at all.

[00:09:00]>> But they're also terrifying.

[00:09:02]>> Yeah. was following you.

[00:09:04]>> You were following me?

[00:09:05]>> Well, it wasn't any secret to me. You were staying at the Silver Creek, seeing as how I'm your number one fan and all.

[00:09:11]>> Oh my god, you keep saying that. It's a little creepy.

[00:09:13]>> I try to imagine what was going on in the room of the world's greatest writer.

[00:09:16]>> That's not creepy.

[00:09:18]>> Well, the other afternoon I was on my way home.

[00:09:21]>> She's doing a great close shave, though.

[00:09:23]>> Mhm. I wonder why a literary genius would go for a drive when there was a big storm coming.

[00:09:28]>> Yes.

[00:09:29]>> I I didn't know there was a big storm coming. should be listening to the radio.

[00:09:33]>> Well, lucky for you, I did. Lucky for me, too, cuz now you're alive and you can write more books.

[00:09:40]>> Has she looked at the manuscript yet?

[00:09:42]>> When do you think the phone lines will be up? I have to call my daughter. And I'd like to call my agent in New York.

[00:09:48]>> She's taking the phone lines out.

[00:09:50]>> Once the roads are open, the phone lines will be up in no time.

[00:09:53]>> If you give me their numbers, I'll keep trying them for you.

[00:09:56]>> I'll keep trying them. I noticed in your case there is a new Paul Sheldon book and I wondered if maybe >> you want to read it >> if if you wouldn't mind.

[00:10:06]>> Oh, is she going to fly off the handle?

[00:10:08]>> I do. Fast rule as to who reads my stuff at this early stage.

[00:10:13]Only my editor, my agent, and anybody that saves me from freezing to death in the car.

[00:10:18]>> And anybody who saves me from freezing to death.

[00:10:22]>> I love James Con's voice.

[00:10:23]>> I know. It's great.

[00:10:25]>> It's so great. I'll get you your novel, paw. Forgive me for paddling away and making you feel all ooey.

[00:10:30]>> Ooie. Time for another dose of mystery pill that makes you all weird and sleepy.

[00:10:35]>> What's it about?

[00:10:38]>> I don't know.

[00:10:39]>> I don't know.

[00:10:40]>> I know it sounds crazy, but I haven't written anything but misery for so long.

[00:10:46]You can tell me what you think it's about. Maybe you can come up with a title.

[00:10:49]>> Oh, that'd be sweet.

[00:10:51]>> Like, I could do that.

[00:10:53]>> But I'd love the opportunity. Nothing unusual about Mr. Sheldon's leaving, Buster.

[00:10:58]See, he always orders a bottle of Dom Perry, y'all, when he's ready to go, and he pays up and he's out the door.

[00:11:04]>> Okay.

[00:11:05]>> Like clockwork.

[00:11:06]>> I bet that old Mustang is pulling into New York right now.

[00:11:08]>> How long until they find it at the side of the road?

[00:11:11]>> I know. I'm only 40 pages into your book, but >> Oh, no.

[00:11:16]>> Shouldn't like it.

[00:11:17]>> What is >> It's ridiculous. Who am I to make a criticism to someone like you?

[00:11:24]>> It's all right. I can take it.

[00:11:26]>> I'm bedridden after all. What am I going to do?

[00:11:29]>> Well, it's brilliantly written. But then everything you write is brilliant.

[00:11:33]>> Okay.

[00:11:35]>> The swearing Paul.

[00:11:39]>> There. I said it.

[00:11:40]>> It needs to be nicer.

[00:11:42]>> These are slum kids. I was a slum kid.

[00:11:45]>> We swear.

[00:11:46]>> Everybody talks like that.

[00:11:47]>> Yeah.

[00:11:48]>> They do not.

[00:11:50]What do you think I say when I go to the feed store in town? Oh, now Wall-E, give me a bag of that effing pig feed and 10 pounds that bitchly cow corn.

[00:11:58]>> Oh no. Did >> you say bitchley cow corn?

[00:12:01]>> HERE'S ONE BIG BASTARD OF A CHECK. GIVE ME SOME of your Christing money.

[00:12:05]>> Christing money.

[00:12:07]>> See what you made me do.

[00:12:11]>> Okay.

[00:12:13]>> Oh, Paul, I'm sorry.

[00:12:17]>> Yep. That was a really great little slip.

[00:12:20]>> Sometimes I get so worked up.

[00:12:22]>> Oh my god, she's so >> Can you ever forgive me?

[00:12:28]>> Yeah, it's okay. I'm stuck in a bed with you. What am I going to do?

[00:12:31]>> I love you, Paul.

[00:12:33]>> Yikes.

[00:12:34]>> Your creativity. That's That's all I meant.

[00:12:36]>> Yes, I would like it inside my head, Paul.

[00:12:41]>> I would like to wear your brain inside my brain.

[00:12:43]>> Where your head has a hat?

[00:12:47]Yeah, you're you're starting to freak out a little bit.

[00:12:51]Sheriff has got to hurry up.

[00:12:53]>> I mean, those roads haven't been plowed.

[00:12:55]>> Yeah, I got stuck in Colorado during a snowstorm a couple years ago.

[00:13:01]>> When you're in this car, you're not my wife, you're my deputy.

[00:13:06]>> Virginia said, "I don't know what you're talking about.

[00:13:07]>> Rather be home under the covers with the sheriff."

[00:13:12]>> Later, Virginia.

[00:13:13]>> Stop.

[00:13:17]What do you mean stop?

[00:13:20]>> Could have been the way to the snow.

[00:13:21]>> That's a really high up broken limb.

[00:13:23]>> Could have been the wind.

[00:13:25]>> Could have been a lot of things.

[00:13:26]>> But let's go looking.

[00:13:27]>> But what was it?

[00:13:29]>> Thank god this small town sheriff is like actually doing his due diligence, you know.

[00:13:33]>> What else is he going to do?

[00:13:36]>> Need some help?

[00:13:39]>> No, I'm enjoying myself. Thank you.

[00:13:44]>> I love him. Oh my god.

[00:13:48]God. So close. So close. So very close.

[00:13:53]No.

[00:13:55]Oh god.

[00:13:57]>> Let's go to the newspaper office.

[00:14:00]>> No. They were so close.

[00:14:02]>> So close.

[00:14:03]>> Uh-oh. Who's driving by?

[00:14:10]>> Sheriff's poking around.

[00:14:11]>> Uhhuh.

[00:14:13]Look what I got.

[00:14:14]>> Oh my god.

[00:14:16]>> There was a whole batch of them there.

[00:14:17]As soon as I saw it, I slammed my money down. I got the first copy.

[00:14:21]>> The roads are open.

[00:14:23]>> What going to town is, but that's about it. I called the hospital >> and I told him who you were and what had happened. And he said, "As long as there's no infection, you're not in any danger."

[00:14:36]>> So, you don't have to go anywhere.

[00:14:38]>> The phone's working.

[00:14:39]>> The phone's working.

[00:14:40]>> Uhhuh. Well, mine's still out, but the ones in town were working just fine.

[00:14:46]>> I peaked at the very beginning. What a wonderful first page just to read the name. Misery chest.

[00:14:51]>> That's got to be going nuts.

[00:14:53]>> She He kills off the character in this one. He kills off the character in this one.

[00:14:57]>> I thought that was his the manuscript he was working on, but nope. It's this one.

[00:15:04]>> Hi, Piggy.

[00:15:05]>> She did say she has to get the pig feed.

[00:15:07]>> Hello. You're right.

[00:15:09]I thought it was time you two should meet.

[00:15:12]>> Paul, say hello to my favorite beast in the whole world. My s Misery.

[00:15:17]>> That's a cute little pig.

[00:15:18]>> Her name is Misery.

[00:15:20]>> I'm on page 300 now, Paul.

[00:15:22]And it's better than perfect. It's divine.

[00:15:25]>> You don't even have like a farm dog.

[00:15:27]>> When my husband left me, I wasn't prepared.

[00:15:30]>> Oh, no.

[00:15:30]>> Oh, >> for a while, I thought I might go crazy.

[00:15:33]>> But then your books brought me back to life. Night shifts can be lonely at a hospital.

[00:15:39]>> Yeah, >> that was when I first discovered misery.

[00:15:43]>> Cute.

[00:15:44]>> Cute. Terrifying.

[00:15:46]>> Fascinating that her name is Misery.

[00:15:48]>> Misery.

[00:15:49]>> I'd love to stay here and chat, but I'm right at the end and I got to find out what happens.

[00:15:53]>> Oh, no.

[00:15:54]>> No, you don't. No, you don't.

[00:15:56]>> Maybe don't.

[00:16:03]>> Oh, God. Dirty bird.

[00:16:06]>> Oh, >> how could you?

[00:16:09]>> Misery chest cannot be dead.

[00:16:13]>> In 1871, women often died in child birth.

[00:16:16]>> I was wondering if child birth misery's child if child birth is what took her out.

[00:16:20]>> I WANT HER AND YOU MURDERED HER.

[00:16:25]>> I didn't.

[00:16:26]>> Oh god, she's strong.

[00:16:27]>> Her baby did.

[00:16:28]>> She died. She just slipped away.

[00:16:31]>> Slipped away.

[00:16:33]slipped away.

[00:16:35]>> Oh, >> you did it.

[00:16:37]>> You did it. Oh, God.

[00:16:39]>> You did it.

[00:16:39]>> There's a bug on me.

[00:16:40]>> You did it. You did it. You did it.

[00:16:43]>> I got it. I got it.

[00:16:44]>> Misery.

[00:16:45]>> Hey.

[00:16:46]>> WHOA.

[00:16:47]>> WHOA.

[00:16:48]>> What an inopportune time to find a bug on me.

[00:16:51]>> You're just another lying old dirty birdie.

[00:16:53]>> Dirty birdie.

[00:16:55]>> Don't think I better be around you for a while.

[00:16:57]>> Um.

[00:16:57]>> Uh, Miss Ma'am.

[00:16:59]>> Yeah, I'm stuck in a bed. What? You can take me to the hospital. Just drop me off. We don't have to see each other ever again.

[00:17:06]>> Don't even think about anybody coming for you.

[00:17:10]>> Not your agent. Not your family.

[00:17:13]>> Oh, >> because I never called them.

[00:17:15]>> Of course you didn't.

[00:17:16]>> Nobody knows you're here. And you better hope nothing happens to me because if I die, you die.

[00:17:25]>> Oh no. Oh no.

[00:17:28]Oh no. All right. Well, we have done away with the illusion.

[00:17:33]>> Mhm. At least for right now. I bet she hops right back into >> Oh, yeah. Tomorrow morning she's like, "Hello."

[00:17:39]>> Yeah.

[00:17:39]>> Hey, I wanted to talk about your book.

[00:17:45]>> She's just gone.

[00:17:46]>> Yeah. She said she needed a couple days >> or to be away from him right now or whatever it was.

[00:17:52]>> Like sitting there like, "Uh, what does that mean?

[00:17:56]>> What's your plan? Could you use your one good arm and maybe scooch yourself?

[00:18:01]>> Yeah, right. Just like inchworm.

[00:18:02]>> Yeah.

[00:18:04]>> Okay. All right.

[00:18:05]>> Or that. I was just going to say from the bed. I think that's going to hurt a whole lot more. That's going to suck.

[00:18:10]>> Falling.

[00:18:15]>> O.

[00:18:18]Oh god, his poor feet. Oh man, it's horrible.

[00:18:26]Oh god.

[00:18:27]>> Is the door locked?

[00:18:29]>> Yeah, right. She locked him in.

[00:18:32]>> That makes sense.

[00:18:35]>> Like I knew we were looking at that for a reason.

[00:18:38]>> Yep. It's locked.

[00:18:42]>> Oh no.

[00:18:44]>> Yes. We're working close with the state police and the FBI's been informed.

[00:18:48]>> The FBI's been informed. As soon as we >> got their wanted person is for writing bad checks.

[00:18:54]>> It's funny.

[00:18:57]>> You poor dear thing.

[00:18:58]>> Yep. There we go.

[00:19:00]>> What are you doing on the floor?

[00:19:03]Let me help you back in.

[00:19:06]>> How did you get him in in the first place?

[00:19:07]>> Yeah, right. Well, she just like fireman carried him up the hill. Girl's strong.

[00:19:13]>> Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow.

[00:19:16]>> Wait.

[00:19:17]>> Oh, you're such a crybaby.

[00:19:21]Ouch. Oh god.

[00:19:25]>> At least she didn't abandon him for like days. I thought she was just going to like leave him to punish him.

[00:19:30]>> I have a big surprise for you. But first, there's something you must do.

[00:19:34]>> Is it freedom?

[00:19:35]>> Got to rewrite the book.

[00:19:36]>> Suppose I could have a little snack.

[00:19:39]>> Yeah, >> I'm waiting for the surprise.

[00:19:40]>> Snack sounds nice.

[00:19:42]>> Sometimes my thinking is a little muddy.

[00:19:44]>> Accept that. That's why I couldn't remember all the things they were asking me on the witness stand in Denver.

[00:19:50]>> What?

[00:19:51]>> But this time I thought clearly. I asked God about you.

[00:19:56]>> And God said, "I delivered him unto you so that you may show him the way."

[00:20:00]>> Awesome.

[00:20:02]Oh boy. You may show him the way to writing Misery Not Dead.

[00:20:09]Um, is she going to threaten to burn his manuscript? He's only got one copy.

[00:20:15]Oh no no no.

[00:20:21]>> Oh no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no.

[00:20:27]>> You must rid the world of this filth.

[00:20:29]>> Rid the world of this filth.

[00:20:31]>> I know this may be difficult for you, but it's for the best.

[00:20:35]>> Oh god.

[00:20:36]>> It's really not difficult at all.

[00:20:39]>> My agent made dozens of copies. There's going to be an auction in New York.

[00:20:42]>> Are you sure? Then light the match, Paul.

[00:20:45]>> Yeah, right. Call my bluff.

[00:20:46]>> So, you vindicated.

[00:20:49]>> Do it. It's >> the only copy.

[00:20:51]>> Just calling your bluff, my guy.

[00:20:53]>> Uh-huh.

[00:20:53]>> When you were 24, you wrote your first book and you didn't make a copy because you didn't think anybody would take it seriously. But they did. And ever since, you've never made any copies because you're superstitious.

[00:21:02]>> Consumed every piece of media with him in it.

[00:21:04]>> God, she knows him better than he knows himself.

[00:21:06]>> Uh-huh.

[00:21:07]>> Can't you see it's what God wants?

[00:21:10]You're so brilliant. And I would think you'd certainly be able to see that.

[00:21:14]>> Um um >> you're doing the right thing.

[00:21:19]>> Oh my god. Get it in the barbecue. Get it in the barbecue >> or set yourself on fire. Just do it. Oh >> my goodness. Goodness gracious. Oh my >> Oh my Oh man.

[00:21:36]Hey officer.

[00:21:38]>> Steman place down there.

[00:21:39]>> Okay. And that's the Wilks farm straight ahead.

[00:21:43]>> Nothing unusual.

[00:21:44]>> There's no 65 Mustang.

[00:21:46]>> No, but >> Well, there's nothing else out this way.

[00:21:49]Let's Let's circle back.

[00:21:51]>> Ah, >> and the Mustang's buried under the snow.

[00:21:56]>> Mustang's buried under the snow.

[00:21:58]>> Go back with the search team to the broken stick.

[00:22:02]>> Here's your novel.

[00:22:04]>> Don't take the pills.

[00:22:06]Don't take the pills.

[00:22:07]>> You just made him kill his baby. You slip them under your tongue.

[00:22:12]>> I mean, she has been pulling them out of like individual >> wrapped things. Yeah, that's true.

[00:22:18]>> Oh, the pills.

[00:22:23]>> Some good looking food.

[00:22:24]>> It is good looking food.

[00:22:27]>> Oh, look at you, smarty pants.

[00:22:29]>> That is a smarter way to hide them.

[00:22:32]>> Yeah, just under the mattress.

[00:22:35]>> Slip them in there.

[00:22:38]That's >> why you always check mattresses.

[00:22:40]>> I always wanted to visit the other side of the room.

[00:22:44]>> This is a very big day for you, Paul.

[00:22:46]You just sit tight and I'll set everything up.

[00:22:48]>> Is she going to put him in front of a typewriter and you're going to write Misery's next mom novel?

[00:22:54]>> Your new studio.

[00:22:57]>> I thought you hadn't seen this one.

[00:22:59]>> The place to work.

[00:22:59]>> I haven't either, but I I I >> You can see it coming.

[00:23:03]>> Yeah.

[00:23:04]>> Come on. I've I've seen enough things about it.

[00:23:07]>> Oh, but Paul, I don't think I know.

[00:23:11]>> I don't think you know either.

[00:23:12]>> You can go back to doing what you're great at.

[00:23:15]>> Misery misery.

[00:23:16]>> New novel. Your greatest achievement ever. Misery's return.

[00:23:21]>> Misery's ghost.

[00:23:22]>> You've already got the title.

[00:23:24]>> I know you didn't mean it when you killed her. And now you'll make it right. It'll be a book in my honor.

[00:23:30]>> In my honor.

[00:23:33]And you can be the only one to see that manuscript.

[00:23:36]>> You're going to make me the envy of the whole world.

[00:23:39]>> You just expect me to whip something off. Is that it?

[00:23:42]>> I expect nothing less than your masterpiece.

[00:23:44]>> And who's going to be the judge of that?

[00:23:46]>> I'll be right back.

[00:23:48]>> How am I supposed to type with one hand in a sling?

[00:23:50]>> Yeah, he only has one hand. And it's his left hand.

[00:23:57]>> Would you look at that? How are you going to get that?

[00:24:00]>> I got you this expensive paper to type on.

[00:24:03]And I got a great deal on this 50 lb clunker on account of it missing an N.

[00:24:07]>> An N.

[00:24:08]>> I told the sales lady N was one of the letters in my favorite writer's name.

[00:24:13]>> It's two of the letters in my favorite nurse's name. Annie E.

[00:24:19]>> There is just one little thing. Um I can't work on this paper. See, it's carassable bond and it smudges.

[00:24:27]>> Ah, she's going to get mad.

[00:24:29]>> Went back into town. You could bring me some white long grade mo.

[00:24:32]>> We're very particular about our paper.

[00:24:35]>> The most so I don't see how it can smudge.

[00:24:39]>> Come here. I'll show you.

[00:24:41]>> I mean, that's valid. Like, >> you're playing a dangerous game, though.

[00:24:48]>> It does smudge after all.

[00:24:51]Isn't that fascinating?

[00:24:53]>> I thought you'd be interested.

[00:24:55]>> Science.

[00:24:56]>> Science. Any other crucial requirements that need satisfying? Would you like a tiny tape recorder? Or how about a handmade set of writing slippers?

[00:25:04]>> Uh, paper will be fine.

[00:25:06]>> Are you sure? Cuz if you want, I'll bring back the whole store for you.

[00:25:10]>> I just I just made a request.

[00:25:12]>> What's the matter?

[00:25:13]>> I'll tell you what's the matter. I GO OUT OF MY WAY FOR YOU. I DO EVERYTHING to try and make you happy. I feed you. I clean you.

[00:25:19]>> Me?

[00:25:21]>> And what thanks do I get? Oh, you bought the wrong paper, Annie. I can't write on this paper, Annie. Well, I'll get your stupid paper, BUT YOU JUST BETTER START SHOWING me a little more appreciation around here, Mr. Man.

[00:25:32]>> Oh, damn.

[00:25:37]>> Ouch. Ouch.

[00:25:40]>> Me thinks she's got some parental trauma.

[00:25:43]>> No, that sounds like a girl who heard that from her parents quite a bit.

[00:25:48]>> Quite a bit.

[00:25:49]>> Quite a bit.

[00:25:49]>> Or her ex-husband.

[00:25:51]>> Or ex-husband. Yeah.

[00:25:52]>> Do we think he actually left her or do you think she killed him? That's why she was on the witness stand in Denver.

[00:25:59]>> Maybe.

[00:25:59]>> That's fully it. That's fully it. She murked her husband. He's buried in the yard somewhere.

[00:26:04]>> Yeah. Or the pig ate him.

[00:26:05]>> Or the pig ate him. Come on, baby. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.

[00:26:09]>> You got this.

[00:26:13]A boy.

[00:26:14]>> Do you know how to pick a lock >> with a bobby pin?

[00:26:20]>> Okay.

[00:26:20]>> Okay. We're in there.

[00:26:24]jostle it around a little bit.

[00:26:25]>> I think I used two bobby pins to written about this. Now do it.

[00:26:29]>> You've written about this. Now do it.

[00:26:35]Bingo.

[00:26:38]>> Nice.

[00:26:38]>> Okay.

[00:26:39]>> Nice.

[00:26:41]Let's hope there's no tight turns you got to make with your legs stuck out like that.

[00:26:44]>> Cuz like what's your plan once you're out the door?

[00:26:47]>> Yeah. I'd go for a phone.

[00:26:49]>> Yeah.

[00:26:51]>> Yeah. Of course that door's locked. Why are all the locks facing the wrong way?

[00:26:58]>> Phone.

[00:26:59]>> Phone. Phone.

[00:27:01]>> Phone.

[00:27:02]>> Phone.

[00:27:05]>> Or did she cut the phone line?

[00:27:09]>> Oh, it's just empty.

[00:27:10]>> Oh, there's nothing inside it.

[00:27:11]>> It's decorative. This girl knows what she's doing.

[00:27:15]Making sure you're getting the right paper.

[00:27:17]>> Mhm. Okay. So, what now?

[00:27:20]>> Yeah. Right. Like you you've only got a limited amount of time. You got to get back.

[00:27:24]>> Mhm.

[00:27:24]>> The glass managerie.

[00:27:26]>> Oh, is he going to bump in?

[00:27:31]>> Oh, nice catch, my guy.

[00:27:36]>> It's facing the wrong way.

[00:27:37]>> It is. It's facing the They're all facing outward except for the penguin.

[00:27:43]>> Memory lane.

[00:27:46]You got to get back inside your room.

[00:27:48]Hold on to the clip. You know you can do it.

[00:27:51]But she's even got a signature of his.

[00:27:54]>> Yep.

[00:27:58]You're not going to go through the photo album.

[00:28:02]Ouch. That's one way to do it.

[00:28:08]>> Pills.

[00:28:08]>> Oh, that's a lot of pills. Yeah. What are the pills?

[00:28:11]>> What are they? Oh, hide them. Smart.

[00:28:15]>> So, he knows what they are.

[00:28:19]Clever. Good job putting stuff back.

[00:28:21]>> Yep. Except for the penguin.

[00:28:23]>> Except for the penguin. The penguin's the only thing.

[00:28:30]>> Oh no.

[00:28:33]>> Are you going to try to fold it in?

[00:28:39]>> Oh god.

[00:28:43]>> You can see that one's got an internal deadbolt, too.

[00:28:49]I mean, I I get it. What else is he going to be able to send her to the store for?

[00:28:56]>> But if he gives a way that he can get out >> for like you get the door open, how far are you going to get >> outside in the snow? Like you got to get a message out somehow.

[00:29:11]>> That's an option.

[00:29:12]>> Is an option.

[00:29:12]>> But if you take her out, like she straight up said, "You die, I die." Or I die, you die. Yeah, >> cuz like nobody knows he's out here.

[00:29:19]>> Yeah, but now he knows how to get around so like he could probably figure it out.

[00:29:27]>> Is she going to like disassociate in the car for a couple minutes?

[00:29:29]>> God, I hope so.

[00:29:30]>> Cuz I would.

[00:29:31]>> I would.

[00:29:35]>> Doors open. Doors open. Doors open. Oh, thank God. Thank God. Thank God. Thank God.

[00:29:42]>> That is some good paper.

[00:29:47]Okay. How are you going to How are you going to lock it?

[00:29:49]>> Yeah, you got to lock the door.

[00:29:53]Reach into the pouch.

[00:29:59]Come on. Come on. Come on.

[00:30:04]>> It's not that easy.

[00:30:05]>> No. No. No.

[00:30:08]Why are you so sweaty?

[00:30:10]>> Just the kind you ask for.

[00:30:13]Paul, you're dripping with perspiration.

[00:30:15]>> Perspiration?

[00:30:17]>> I've been sitting here suffering. I need my pills.

[00:30:20]>> M. Good call.

[00:30:23]>> Let's get you back in bed and I'll get them for you.

[00:30:26]>> I want my pills now.

[00:30:27]>> It'll only take a second.

[00:30:29]>> No, I want my pain to go away. Honey, please make it go away.

[00:30:38]>> Make it go away. Take care of me. It just breaks my heart to see you like this.

[00:30:44]>> God, the like vacant stare.

[00:30:47]Push him down. Push him down.

[00:30:49]>> Here you go.

[00:30:51]>> And I'm absolutely certain reason I've never been more popular is because of my temper.

[00:30:57]>> Yep, for sure.

[00:30:58]>> There you go.

[00:31:01]>> Okay.

[00:31:02]>> Okay.

[00:31:03]>> And she's going to notice the penguin.

[00:31:05]>> In case you think of any ideas.

[00:31:08]Oh, it was very kind of her.

[00:31:10]>> Too much.

[00:31:10]>> Think of me as your inspiration.

[00:31:12]>> Oh, yes. I'm your muse. I'm going to write an amazing book about this later.

[00:31:18]>> I have faith in you, my darling.

[00:31:21]>> Catch this.

[00:31:26]>> Horrible.

[00:31:28]Oh, man.

[00:31:34]You see it now, don't you? Oh, yep.

[00:31:39]>> We know that he somehow managed to crawl outside his vehicle, but we have been unable to find his body anywhere in the vicinity of the accident.

[00:31:46]>> Oh, no.

[00:31:48]>> We also know that if anyone had found him, they would have taken him to an area hospital.

[00:31:52]>> Sure.

[00:31:52]>> Undoubtedly, he is buried somewhere out there in the snow.

[00:31:56]>> We'll find him after the first thaw.

[00:31:58]>> Oh god.

[00:32:02]>> Someone sheriff sees >> someone pulled him out. Sheriff knows what's up.

[00:32:07]>> You see the dents on the door there?

[00:32:09]>> Mhm.

[00:32:10]>> Someone pulled him out.

[00:32:11]>> Thank God for this man.

[00:32:12]>> Yep.

[00:32:14]>> Jeopardy.

[00:32:17]>> Or no, it's not Jeopardy. Family fee.

[00:32:22]>> Or is it just like sugar?

[00:32:24]>> No, there's no way. It's >> That's a good way to make those disappear actually. Genius. I was like, "Oh, I would have put him back in the bed." But that's now it's got the >> No, he makes his little his little pill pocket thing.

[00:32:40]>> Ah, yes. The fear of the blank page.

[00:32:44]>> What to write? What to write? Misery was not dead.

[00:32:48]>> Yo, >> all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

[00:32:55]>> I wonder if it's the same.

[00:32:58]>> That works.

[00:32:59]>> You'll have to do it over again.

[00:33:01]>> What?

[00:33:01]>> What? It's not worthy of you. Throw it all out except for that part of naming the gravedigger after me. You can leave that in.

[00:33:07]>> Naming the >> I really value your criticism.

[00:33:12]>> I really value your criticism.

[00:33:14]>> Being a little hasty here.

[00:33:15]>> What you've written just >> I'm two pages in.

[00:33:16]>> What do you mean? It isn't fair.

[00:33:18]>> When I was growing up in Bakersfield, my favorite thing in all the world go to the movies on Saturday afternoons for the chapter plays.

[00:33:24]>> Cliffhers.

[00:33:25]>> I know that, Mr. Man.

[00:33:26]>> Okay, my bad.

[00:33:28]>> My favorite was Rocket Man. And once it was a no breaks chapter and the bad guy stuck him in a car on a mountain road and knocked him out and welded the door shut, tore out the brakes and started him to his death. And he woke up and tried to steer and tried to get out, but the car went off a cliff before he could escape.

[00:33:44]>> And you never got to see the end.

[00:33:45]>> And it crashed and burned. And I was so upset and excited. And the next week, you better believe I was first in line.

[00:33:51]And they always start with the end of the last week. And there was Rocket Man trying to get out. And here comes the cliff. And just before the car went off the cliff, he jumped free and all the kids cheered.

[00:34:03]>> But it wasn't satisfying. No, >> I stood right up and started shouting.

[00:34:07]This isn't what happened last week. Have you all got amnesia?

[00:34:12]>> HE DIDN'T GET OUT OF THE COCKADUT CAR.

[00:34:16]>> THE cocka duty car.

[00:34:19]>> God, she's eating it up.

[00:34:21]>> Sounds amazing. The like vacant stare.

[00:34:23]Oh, but also her face is getting like that's the only time we've ever seen like >> not with my misery.

[00:34:29]>> Like the only time we see her emotions is when she's pissed.

[00:34:33]>> Misery was buried in the ground at the end, Paul. So, you'll have to start there.

[00:34:37]>> Mystery's hand popping up. Zombie movie.

[00:34:43]>> See, what she doesn't understand is she gets to read the final draft every single time. And now you're getting in on the ground floor. First draft of a novel is never the one that goes out ever.

[00:34:54]>> Does it bear?

[00:34:54]>> Just ask Patrick Rothfus.

[00:34:56]>> They continue.

[00:34:57]>> Christ.

[00:34:58]>> You better.

[00:35:02]>> When Ian realized that the reason they had buried Misery alive was because the beasting had put her in that temporary coma.

[00:35:08]And when Gravedigger Wilks remembered how 30 years earlier the same thing had happened to Lady Evelyn Hyde.

[00:35:15]And then old Dr. clearly deduced that misery must be Lady Evelyn Hid's long- lost daughter because of the rarity of deadly beastings. My heart just leapt.

[00:35:23]>> The rarity of deadly beastings.

[00:35:26]>> Can I read each chapter when you finish?

[00:35:27]I can fill in the ends.

[00:35:29]>> Will she be your old self now that Ian has dug her out? Or will she have amnesia?

[00:35:34]>> Have to wait.

[00:35:34]>> Have to wait.

[00:35:37]>> Mister's alive.

[00:35:38]>> My god, she's like a child.

[00:35:40]>> I'm going to put on my Liberace records.

[00:35:43]>> Oh god. You know what? Good for you, girl. Go get it.

[00:35:47]>> Would you have dinner with me tonight to celebrate misery?

[00:35:51]>> Drug her. Drug her. Drug her.

[00:35:52]>> He has that little >> He has a little >> Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

[00:35:55]>> It would be an honor.

[00:35:57]>> Oh my god. How is she so good?

[00:35:59]>> I know. God, >> Kathy Bates.

[00:36:02]>> I just keep I'm just like in awe.

[00:36:04]>> I figured that if I can't find Paul Sheldon, at least I can find out what he wrote about.

[00:36:10]>> What do you expect to find? A story about a guy who drove his car off a cliff in a snowstorm >> and got lost in Colorado. You ever read The Hatchet?

[00:36:18]>> I hope you like it.

[00:36:19]>> Okay, we haven't. Nothing with the penguin.

[00:36:22]>> So do you.

[00:36:23]>> Oh god.

[00:36:24]>> I've never had meatloaf this good. What do you do to it?

[00:36:26]>> My secret is I only use fresh tomatoes.

[00:36:28]Never can.

[00:36:29]>> I don't trust I don't >> I know. I don't trust it either.

[00:36:33]>> Okay. How are you going to slip it? How you going to slip it?

[00:36:39]>> A heavy pour.

[00:36:40]>> Yeah. What is that? A keanti.

[00:36:43]>> Wait, do you have any candles?

[00:36:45]>> Nice. Good call. Good call.

[00:36:47]>> I think so. I'll go look.

[00:36:51]>> Does he have it tucked immediately? Good man.

[00:36:53]>> Did you uh study decorating or do you just have a flare?

[00:36:57]>> Oh, you >> dump.

[00:37:00]>> I just picked things up over the years.

[00:37:03]>> Well, certainly say >> got to mix. Got to mix. Got to mix. Got to mix. Got to mix.

[00:37:07]>> It's all just at the bottom. at the bottom. Use the back of your fork.

[00:37:13]>> Will this do?

[00:37:15]>> It's perfect.

[00:37:16]>> Like part of me is really rooting for her.

[00:37:18]>> I know, right? She's so sweet when she's sweet.

[00:37:22]>> Oh, >> damn it.

[00:37:24]>> I'm so sorry, Paul. I ruined your beautiful toast.

[00:37:29]>> What the hell, Dave? Sex Machina, >> will you ever forgive me?

[00:37:34]>> Working for the wrong person.

[00:37:36]>> He's so hard. He's just God, no.

[00:37:39]>> It's okay. It was mostly at the bottom.

[00:37:42]>> This never happened.

[00:37:42]>> Yeah, maybe she poured it in and it's okay.

[00:37:44]>> Maybe it's okay.

[00:37:46]>> To misery.

[00:37:47]>> Damn it.

[00:37:47]>> Misery.

[00:37:48]>> Damn it.

[00:37:50]>> Cheers.

[00:37:51]>> Might as well just knock the candle over again. Set the whole house in place.

[00:37:54]Yeah, the penguin's fixed.

[00:37:58]>> What if like the true ending of this is he actually comes away from this experience and publishes the book and everybody's like, "Oh, thank god she's back.

[00:38:05]>> Thank god she's alive." And he's like, "Ah, you're right. Misery is the only thing I'll ever write. You have shown me the way >> sitting here reading the books.

[00:38:18]>> I with his sweater by the fire. I love him.

[00:38:24]>> He's actually getting mad about drafts.

[00:38:26]>> He's still a writer and she's read everything he's ever written. So, like >> he's in a flow state.

[00:38:36]>> Yeah, he really is.

[00:38:36]>> He's in a flow state.

[00:38:43]>> Rain means snow's wearing off.

[00:38:45]>> Mhm.

[00:38:47]We're getting warmer.

[00:38:51]>> Yep.

[00:38:51]>> Working himself out.

[00:38:54]>> Here's your pills.

[00:38:55]>> Annie. Babe, >> you good?

[00:38:57]>> Annie, what is it? The rain sometimes it gives me the blues.

[00:39:04]>> Huh?

[00:39:05]>> You'll never know the fear of losing someone like you if you're someone like me.

[00:39:10]>> Why would you lose me?

[00:39:12]>> Cuz the rain.

[00:39:13]>> Book's almost finished.

[00:39:15]>> Mhm.

[00:39:17]Soon you'll be wanting to leave.

[00:39:19]>> I mean, he's wanted to leave this whole time.

[00:39:21]>> Yeah, >> I like it here.

[00:39:24]>> That's very kind of you.

[00:39:26]>> This is the first time she's like been speaking rationally.

[00:39:30]Whoa.

[00:39:32]Hey babe, what what are you doing with that in your pocket?

[00:39:38]>> And Czechov has entered the conversation.

[00:39:42]>> I better go now.

[00:39:43]>> Uhhuh.

[00:39:46]>> I might put bullets in it.

[00:39:49]>> That's a heavy thing to say to a person and just walk away.

[00:39:53]>> Yeah.

[00:39:59]Where's she going? She doesn't care.

[00:40:00]She's >> just gone.

[00:40:02]>> She doesn't care.

[00:40:04]>> That was intense. That was very intense.

[00:40:07]>> Yeah, it was.

[00:40:09]>> All right, she gone. Now we bust up out of here.

[00:40:12]>> Yep.

[00:40:14]>> Man, >> how you going to hide that one down your pants, bud?

[00:40:18]>> Stab stab.

[00:40:18]>> There is a justice higher than that of man. I will be judged by him.

[00:40:24]>> What? They're hauling misery into court.

[00:40:27]>> He's really interested.

[00:40:29]>> He is.

[00:40:30]>> I will be judged by him.

[00:40:36]>> Watch Kathy Bates. They catch her.

[00:40:38]That's her final line.

[00:40:40]>> Or she's already said it.

[00:40:42]>> Or she's already said it.

[00:40:46]>> She's been keeping newspaper clipping.

[00:40:48]>> Is that part in Is that in the the the memories book?

[00:40:51]>> Yep.

[00:40:54]Flip to Husband.

[00:40:57]>> Flip to husband.

[00:40:59]>> Is it all her? Is it all him?

[00:41:02]>> That is a good question. No. Okay, >> that's her.

[00:41:08]>> Carl Wilks plunges to death.

[00:41:13]>> Oh, >> she's a big fan of letting people plunge to their deaths.

[00:41:19]>> Five week struggle in the hospital. Oh no, another baby.

[00:41:25]Oh, that just got really dark.

[00:41:31]That's why I couldn't remember anything in that witness stand in Denver.

[00:41:36]>> Oh god. Horrible.

[00:41:38]>> Oh.

[00:41:39]>> Oh, she's way more evil than I thought she was. Damn.

[00:41:43]>> I really thought it was just like bipolar taking >> no parasocial relationship.

[00:41:49]>> Oh no.

[00:41:55]Cut yourself.

[00:41:57]>> Oh, slick.

[00:41:58]>> Has there been a safety pin in there the entire time?

[00:42:01]>> Yes.

[00:42:02]>> Okay.

[00:42:02]>> I know why he didn't use that to pick the lock. The world may never know. But >> I don't know. Get her somehow.

[00:42:10]>> Death by a thousand pokes.

[00:42:11]>> I die.

[00:42:15]I'll get you in the jugular. You bleed out at high pressure over the course of 10 minutes.

[00:42:22]I just say it could be annoying enough.

[00:42:26]>> Yeah. Annoying enough for me to get pissed off and just like stove your head in.

[00:42:29]>> Yeah. But she doesn't actually want to kill him cuz that's currently the object of her affection.

[00:42:34]>> Be asleep.

[00:42:36]>> Yeah. Yeah. Be asleep. Be asleep. And then when she gets really close to make sure you're breathing, then you go just go coming in.

[00:42:49]>> No.

[00:42:53]And she's gone.

[00:42:54]>> Yep.

[00:42:58]Okay.

[00:43:05]>> Hey, be cool. Be chill. Be cool. Be chill.

[00:43:07]>> Be so cool.

[00:43:10]>> It's definitely on the studio tour. Just the the outside of the house.

[00:43:15]>> Isn't that the the the bait the the like psycho house? Oh, speaking of psycho.

[00:43:21]God damn.

[00:43:27]>> No.

[00:43:28]>> Oh, no. Well, we're in trouble. She noticed the knife was missing from the knife.

[00:43:32]>> Of course she did. That's why you take a secondary knife from a drawer somewhere.

[00:43:38]>> I know you've been out.

[00:43:40]>> She figured it out.

[00:43:41]>> Yeah.

[00:43:42]>> Oh, she tied him down. Hey, his feet are looking real good, though.

[00:43:45]>> Mhm.

[00:43:46]>> No, I haven't.

[00:43:48]Paul, my little ceramic penguin in the study always faces due south.

[00:43:53]>> Never mind.

[00:43:55]>> I don't I don't know what you're talking about.

[00:43:59]>> It's gone.

[00:44:01]>> This is what you're looking for.

[00:44:02]>> Yeah.

[00:44:04]>> Well, that's that'll do it. That's the final nail in the coffin.

[00:44:08]>> First, I couldn't figure out how you did it, but last night I found your key.

[00:44:14]>> Paul. Babe. Paul, do you know about the early days at the Kimberly Diamond Mines?

[00:44:19]>> Huh?

[00:44:20]>> Do you know what they did to the native workers who stole diamonds?

[00:44:23]>> Nothing good.

[00:44:23]>> Nothing good.

[00:44:25]>> They had to make sure they could go on working, but they also had to make sure they could never run away.

[00:44:30]>> Oh no.

[00:44:30]>> No.

[00:44:37]>> Oh god. He just got his legs back kind of.

[00:44:42]>> No. No. No. No. No. No. No.

[00:44:46]Trust me, >> it's for the best.

[00:44:49]>> No, no, NO, NO, NO, NO.

[00:44:51]>> OH, almost done. Just one more.

[00:44:57]>> Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no, no.

[00:45:03]>> God, I love you.

[00:45:04]>> Oh, thanks.

[00:45:06]>> Boy, I bet you wish you had some of those pills, huh?

[00:45:08]>> Oh, God. Is she going to set them like she did with his legs?

[00:45:11]>> I don't know. That's a good question.

[00:45:16]Jesus.

[00:45:22]>> God, what a beautiful little town.

[00:45:24]>> Yep.

[00:45:30]>> You cocka duty.

[00:45:33]>> You get him.

[00:45:34]>> I At this point, I'm I'm like hesitantly laughing at her not swear words. I know >> cuz I'm like I usually that was real big mad but cocka dudy is still funny.

[00:45:46]>> So funny.

[00:45:49]>> She's big mad. Why is she big mad?

[00:45:53]>> The gears are turning. Things are clicking.

[00:45:56]>> Just leave it. All right.

[00:45:58]>> Oh, I like that tone.

[00:46:01]>> Oh, I like that tone.

[00:46:02]>> There's that spice again.

[00:46:06]>> I love them so much. Me, too. They are they are what I I aspire to be in my old timey relationship.

[00:46:13]>> Right. Like you need Yeah.

[00:46:19]>> There she is.

[00:46:20]>> Yep.

[00:46:22]>> Where's the quote?

[00:46:23]>> There is a higher justice than that of man.

[00:46:26]>> Yeah.

[00:46:28]>> There is a justice higher than that of man.

[00:46:30]>> Oh, I flipped those words.

[00:46:31]>> I will be judged by him. But >> oh, >> this guy's amazing.

[00:46:38]>> I mean like in in real life that might be a bit of a reach, but >> sometimes things stick with you, you know.

[00:46:45]>> Yep.

[00:46:48]>> The Piggly Wiggly. I love the Piggly Wiggly. I hope nothing bad happens to the pig.

[00:46:52]>> Same.

[00:46:53]>> Do you have any new Paul Sheldon books?

[00:46:55]>> Sold them all out three days.

[00:46:57]>> You wouldn't happen to know if Miss Wils bought one of them, would you?

[00:47:01]>> Just run in the register. By the time that fell writes a new book, she has me set aside the first copy.

[00:47:07]>> Sounds about right. You >> been buying anything odd lately?

[00:47:11]>> The whole wall of cigarettes?

[00:47:12]>> List you call paper. Odd newspaper?

[00:47:16]>> No.

[00:47:16]>> No.

[00:47:17]>> Typing paper.

[00:47:18]>> Typing kind.

[00:47:19]>> Mhm.

[00:47:20]>> Nothing odd about that.

[00:47:22]>> Sure.

[00:47:24]Not to arouse suspicion. God, I hope this guy goes out with backup. I'm worried she's going to do something to him.

[00:47:29]>> I am too.

[00:47:31]>> No.

[00:47:33]Knock on the door. Knock on the window.

[00:47:35]Hello. Hello. You can see me. You can see me in the window. Please.

[00:47:39]>> Are you real? Please be real.

[00:47:41]>> Please be real.

[00:47:46]>> Oh no. Oh god. Oh no.

[00:47:54]>> Yeah. Get her. Get her. Get her. Leave a mark. Anything to make >> anything suspicious.

[00:48:00]>> Anything. When are we going to develop a sense of trust?

[00:48:04]>> You broke my legs.

[00:48:05]>> Yeah, purposefully.

[00:48:06]>> You lied to me about calling my agent and people.

[00:48:09]>> Yep.

[00:48:10]>> Damn. Torture dungeon.

[00:48:13]>> She just carried him bodily down the stairs. This woman is crazy.

[00:48:20]>> God, so close. I thought she was in the shack with the pig.

[00:48:24]>> Oh my.

[00:48:26]>> I'm sorry. Hey, I didn't mean to startle you, but you didn't give me a chance to knock.

[00:48:31]>> What can I do for you?

[00:48:32]>> How can I help you?

[00:48:33]>> Well, I was wondering, do you happen to know anything about Paul Sheldon?

[00:48:36]>> What do you want to know?

[00:48:37]>> That's so specific.

[00:48:39]>> Well, anything you could tell me might help.

[00:48:41]>> Well, he was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, 45 years ago. The only child of Franklin and Helen Sheld.

[00:48:47]>> Well, that that isn't exactly the kind of in >> Oh my god, she knows everything.

[00:48:52]>> I'm his number one fan. I've got all his books.

[00:48:54]>> She's talking real fast. Uh-huh.

[00:48:57]>> Real fast.

[00:48:58]>> Well, here I am prattling on and my manners have just flown away. I haven't invited you in.

[00:49:04]>> What could I do for you?

[00:49:05]>> Where did that accent come from?

[00:49:07]>> Mind if I take a look around?

[00:49:08]>> Of course not.

[00:49:10]>> She's from Bakersfield.

[00:49:12]>> Yeah.

[00:49:13]>> When I was praying, God told me to get ready.

[00:49:17]>> Get ready for what?

[00:49:19]>> To be his replacement.

[00:49:20]>> To be his replacement. She's going to pass the novel off as her own. bought a typewriter and paper to type on the same.

[00:49:29]>> I didn't ask you. I didn't ask you.

[00:49:31]>> You're giving a lot.

[00:49:32]>> You're giving a lot of information away.

[00:49:35]Would you like to see it?

[00:49:36]>> Yeah. You're just volunteering a whole bunch of information there, girl.

[00:49:40]>> I know how he wrote, >> the kinds of words he used, the wonderful stories he told.

[00:49:44]>> He never asked about the paper.

[00:49:46]>> I try and I try and I know all the words, but it's just not the same.

[00:49:51]>> See, the thing about lying is you give as little as possible.

[00:49:54]I could give you a couple of hundred pages of mine and you could tell me what you think.

[00:49:58]>> I'm not much of a critic.

[00:50:00]>> Sure.

[00:50:01]>> Oh, look at me. You'd think I'd never had a guest before. Would you like a nice hot cup of cocoa?

[00:50:05]>> No, really. I don't care.

[00:50:06]>> It's no trouble.

[00:50:08]>> She's going to poison it. She's going to poison it.

[00:50:10]>> Her like nice lady voice has a little bit has like a touch of an accent.

[00:50:14]>> Little bit of twang.

[00:50:15]>> And that's amazing.

[00:50:19]>> Sneaky. Check the upstairs.

[00:50:23]You're going the wrong direction, man.

[00:50:25]You're going the wrong direction.

[00:50:26]>> Knock over the thing.

[00:50:27]>> I'm so worried he's going to die. I'm so worried this man's going to die.

[00:50:31]>> I'm also worried about this man. You can't kill the sheriff.

[00:50:35]>> But you can shoot the deputy.

[00:50:39]>> I thought it was the opposite.

[00:50:40]>> It's the opposite. It is, but I saw I saw an opening.

[00:50:47]>> Yeah, that's clearly her bedroom.

[00:50:48]>> Yep, definitely her bedroom.

[00:50:52]Nothing of note.

[00:50:56]>> Here you are.

[00:50:57]>> Oh, thanks, Miss Wilks, but I don't want to take up any more of your time.

[00:51:01]>> Smart man. Smart man.

[00:51:03]>> But you didn't even taste your cocoa.

[00:51:07]>> That's okay.

[00:51:08]>> You're too insistent.

[00:51:09]>> Wouldn't mind. Perhaps I could pay you another visit sometime.

[00:51:12]>> I'd be delighted now that you know the way.

[00:51:15]>> It closes the door on him.

[00:51:16]>> Yep.

[00:51:19]>> So close.

[00:51:22]Clatter.

[00:51:23]>> Nice. Nice. Probable cause. Ma'am, are you okay?

[00:51:26]>> Miss Wilks.

[00:51:29]Miss Wils, are you all right?

[00:51:30]>> This man's getting stabbed. This man's going to die. This man's not making Where is your radio?

[00:51:34]>> Here. I'm down here.

[00:51:37]>> Where is she?

[00:51:38]>> Where is she?

[00:51:40]>> Mr. SHEL, >> HE DEAD.

[00:51:42]>> OH, DAMN.

[00:51:47]Oh [ __ ] >> She blew a hole straight through him.

[00:51:51]>> You and I were meant to be together forever.

[00:51:54]>> Now our time in this world must end.

[00:51:56]>> Um, >> I put two bullets in my gun.

[00:52:01]>> One for you and one for me.

[00:52:05]>> Oh, darling, it'll be so beautiful.

[00:52:07]>> Oh, no. The just like blank expression when she's saying it, too.

[00:52:17]Emilate the house.

[00:52:19]>> I love you.

[00:52:21]>> That doesn't make me feel any less afraid. Ma'am, >> I love you, too.

[00:52:25]>> And you're right. We are meant to be together.

[00:52:28]>> Feed into the fantasy.

[00:52:31]>> But it must be so that misery can live. We have the power to give misery eternal life.

[00:52:40]>> We got to get the manuscript out.

[00:52:42]>> Yeah. will be able to give misery back to the world.

[00:52:48]>> Okay.

[00:52:49]>> Okay.

[00:52:50]>> Okay. Um >> what's the game plan here? What are you >> Yeah.

[00:52:54]>> Like you're you're playing for time, but >> is he going to try to like >> stick that in your back pocket?

[00:53:01]>> Write something into the >> I don't know that. Maybe either that or >> you something to eat.

[00:53:07]>> Playing for Oh, cool. Yeah, I'll get right back into my chair then. It's like the question of like how would you know I was in a time loop if I told you I was in a time loop.

[00:53:17]>> Yeah. Right.

[00:53:18]>> When I finish I'd like everything to be perfect.

[00:53:23]>> I'll need three things.

[00:53:24]>> Champagne.

[00:53:25]>> Dom.

[00:53:26]>> You need a cigarette because you used to smoke but you quit.

[00:53:29]>> Mhm.

[00:53:30]>> And the match is to light it. And you need one glass of champagne. Dom Perignon.

[00:53:37]>> Perignon. Dom Prinon it is.

[00:53:40]>> Dom Perignon it is.

[00:53:41]>> I guess if you've only ever read it.

[00:53:43]>> I do love those those series where they're like what's a word that you only read and you didn't know what it was until someone said it.

[00:53:51]>> Annie.

[00:53:53]>> Yes. Paul.

[00:53:54]>> I'm almost done.

[00:53:56]>> Okay.

[00:53:57]>> Get the champagne.

[00:54:00]>> Fetch the champagne.

[00:54:03]The lucky strike. She's got everything set out.

[00:54:07]Dom Perignon.

[00:54:08]>> Dom Perignon.

[00:54:14]Your final meal, sir. A cigarette and sh champagne. Very French of you.

[00:54:18]>> Did I do good?

[00:54:20]>> You did perfect, except for one thing.

[00:54:25]This time, we'll need >> two glasses.

[00:54:27]>> Wow.

[00:54:29]>> Oh, Paul.

[00:54:32]>> I get to drink with you while we finish our book.

[00:54:41]Okay. So, >> oh, he's been like like shoulder pressing the typewriter this whole time.

[00:54:50]Is he going to bash her over the head with it?

[00:54:53]>> Is this comeuppance for making him >> We only have one manuscript.

[00:55:02]>> God, that's so cool.

[00:55:04]>> Why not? Why not?

[00:55:08]>> NO. NO. NO. THE MISERY. MY MISERY.

[00:55:12]>> YES.

[00:55:15]>> BAM.

[00:55:16]>> YES.

[00:55:18]On fire.

[00:55:20]>> Damn. She She got back up from that pretty quick.

[00:55:22]>> That was pretty.

[00:55:23]>> She got back up pretty like SUPER QUICK.

[00:55:25]GOD DAMN. So much for all that bench pressing.

[00:55:31]>> Gun. Gun. Gun. SHE GOT GUN.

[00:55:34]>> OH. BUT IT'S OKAY CUZ WE know she only has two bullets in there.

[00:55:36]>> Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep.

[00:55:38]>> Throws himself out of her wheelchair.

[00:55:40]Okay, that's two. That's two. That's two.

[00:55:45]>> Kick the crap out of her.

[00:55:47]>> You want it? YOU WANT IT?

[00:55:49]>> You mega eat it.

[00:55:50]>> Oh god.

[00:55:54]Oh.

[00:55:56]Oh. Ouch.

[00:55:57]>> Oh, your nethers.

[00:55:58]>> No. To the Nether region is That's it.

[00:56:06]>> Hey, remember I die, you die.

[00:56:09]>> How does he get out of here?

[00:56:12]>> Well, I don't I don't I don't think that's really the situation as much anymore.

[00:56:16]>> God, I hope not. That's true. He's not He's like He's mobile.

[00:56:20]>> He's He's mobile.

[00:56:21]>> Is And somebody's going to come looking for the sheriff at some point, right?

[00:56:31]>> Oh god.

[00:56:35]Yikes.

[00:56:41]>> Get her with the pig. Get her with the pig. Just boom.

[00:56:44]>> Yes. Just misery loves company. Bam.

[00:56:55]>> Nice block.

[00:56:56]>> Oh.

[00:56:59]>> Oh man. Oh man. That's what did it.

[00:57:02]That's the head trauma that did it.

[00:57:07]Oh >> sheesh.

[00:57:10]>> What an image.

[00:57:13]>> We made it back to New York. 18 months later. We're alive. We're alive. We're alive.

[00:57:17]>> Still got a limp.

[00:57:19]>> But that's okay.

[00:57:20]>> The cane is very dignified. It's a very dignified look there, bud.

[00:57:23]>> This is it. Very first copy.

[00:57:26]>> The higher education of J. Phillips. But for the first time, I think you've got a shot at some prizes.

[00:57:32]>> Huh? Thanks, >> Eddie Wilks.

[00:57:36]That whole experience uh help me.

[00:57:41]>> I saw the light.

[00:57:43]>> I thought you were over.

[00:57:44]>> Um um >> I don't know if anyone could ever totally get over something like that.

[00:57:48]>> Um >> even though I know she's dead, >> I still think about her once in a while.

[00:57:56]>> Excuse me. Uh, >> are you Paul Sheldon?

[00:57:59]>> Yes.

[00:58:01]>> I just want to tell you I'm your number one fan.

[00:58:03]>> Oh god, >> that's very sweet of you.

[00:58:07]>> Deeply triggering thing to say to my face.

[00:58:10]>> Yeah, >> seeing you.

[00:58:16]>> Oh my god, what a song for the end.

[00:58:18]>> It was the song they had dinner to.

[00:58:20]>> Oh, you're right.

[00:58:21]>> Misery the Pig herself.

[00:58:23]>> Yeah. God, I love Misery the Pig. She was the best character.

[00:58:28]>> She was great.

[00:58:29]>> Jesus. Patty Bates was amazing.

[00:58:32]>> Amazing.

[00:58:33]>> Holy crap.

[00:58:35]>> Oh, so good. So good.

[00:58:37]>> The way she just like could oscillate between kind and caring so fast >> and then just totally shark eyes dead stare.

[00:58:49]>> Terrifying.

[00:58:50]>> Absolute master class.

[00:58:52]>> Terrifying.

[00:58:53]She was amazing. I'm going to double check, but I'm pretty sure I just want to make sure I got >> She didn't I'm going to go back in time and yell at people.

[00:59:02]>> Yeah. Best actress 91.

[00:59:04]>> 91, which would have been Misery 1990.

[00:59:07]Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:59:08]>> Yep.

[00:59:08]>> That was a damn good movie. That was a Rob Reiner does it again. I had no idea that Rob Reiner had done like a Stephen King movie. I've again I'm only familiar with Rob Reiner's work on romcoms.

[00:59:19]Spinal Tap, obviously. Princess Bride.

[00:59:21]It's one of my favorite movies of all time.

[00:59:22]>> That's kind of a romcom. H yeah, basically sort of it's kind of all of it.

[00:59:26]>> It is a lot.

[00:59:28]>> It's kind of everything.

[00:59:29]>> Fun fact, the marketing department didn't know how to market uh Princess Bride because it was everything.

[00:59:35]>> But anyway, that's not the movie we're talking about. So, seeing Rob Reiner like dip his toes into thriller, psychological horror did really good.

[00:59:45]And I think he brought the comedic understanding to make Kathy Bates's character work really really well because the we talked about how her like mock swearing is so silly and goofy and that feels like a very Robiner thing to do or have the character do. And so he did a great job of still having her have these little like silly character moments, but they felt so threatening and >> and still so ominous in a way, you know?

[01:00:17]>> Yeah. Cuz if it was a normal person, she would just say a curse.

[01:00:20]>> Yeah.

[01:00:21]>> It would just be a curse word in there.

[01:00:23]It'd be a swear.

[01:00:24]>> And that's what makes it so unsettling.

[01:00:25]>> And that's what makes it so Yeah.

[01:00:27]unnerving and like off-putting, but also funny when she hits a car and she goes cockle.

[01:00:34]Yeah. Yeah, >> that was great. Yeah, her dead eyes, the deadeyed stare, and then the fact that it's the same like she's finally on the ground, right? Dead and that's all we see of her. Like, I mean, she's covered in blood.

[01:00:48]>> Yes.

[01:00:49]>> And then just dead eyes.

[01:00:52]>> It shiver. There were so many moments that like really sent a shiver down my spine. I mean, obviously, you have the first sort of slip of the mask where she's like spooning out the soup and she's talking about the profanity in his new book.

[01:01:04]>> I think we both kind of froze.

[01:01:06]>> Yep.

[01:01:07]>> Yep. That's definitely the moment where you're like, "Okay."

[01:01:10]>> We're like, "Oh, yeah. Stephen King."

[01:01:14]>> Cuz I had I obviously this this movie is popular enough that I had enough familiarity to kind of know the >> plot. Huge huge movie.

[01:01:21]>> Yes. Obviously. And so I was waiting for that switch to come. I'm curious how that twist went over because I mean obviously Stephen King is a huge novelist and everybody knows his work.

[01:01:35]So, I'm sure there were lots of people who were familiar with the book that it was based on >> um that would have known going in, but I'm sure there was a broad audience that didn't know. And I would have loved to be a fly on the wall for that reaction in in theaters >> cuz I just think Kathy Bates does such a great job of >> seeming so normal at the top.

[01:01:58]>> She just seems so nice, >> caring and >> Mhm.

[01:02:02]>> Exactly. And so her switching and the immediate switch that feels like it comes out of nowhere, that must have thrown people.

[01:02:10]>> Look what you made me do.

[01:02:12]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[01:02:15]>> Yeah. But she was fantastic and I'm glad she won awards for this. She deserves some. Um James Con also fantastic in this.

[01:02:25]>> So good. I'm a little sad we didn't get a a good ending with the um with the sheriff and his wife. I know >> the two. Okay, I take it back. Okay.

[01:02:36]Misery the pig. Best character. Sheriff and his wife. Close second. And I'm so sad he got a hole the size of Texas blown in his chest.

[01:02:45]>> Yeah.

[01:02:46]>> Oh, that was brutal. Like him wandering around. If you are a a beloved police officer character or law enforcement character, nine times out of 10, >> if you are in that house alone, you're dead.

[01:02:57]>> You're dead.

[01:02:58]>> You're dead. You're done. That's why we always just you call for backup and have them call for backup and then just don't do anything >> until they get there >> just in case.

[01:03:08]>> Just in case. Just like have somebody watching your back.

[01:03:11]>> Like at least bring your wife. I feel like I feel like she can throw down. I feel like she can throw down.

[01:03:18]>> Maybe. Yeah. Yeah.

[01:03:21]>> Maybe. Maybe.

[01:03:22]>> At least he wouldn't have been alone.

[01:03:24]>> At least he wouldn't have been alone.

[01:03:25]And now she's like sitting there at the office waiting for him. I feel like that feels very Stephen King though to like when I haven't read a lot of Stephen King, but I've read a few and that feels very like, oh, they found him. We like as a reader, you're like, okay, great.

[01:03:41]They know where he is. They're going to go and get him. They're going to save him. It's going to be great. She's going to go to jail.

[01:03:47]>> Mhm.

[01:03:48]>> And then he dies.

[01:03:51]>> And it's just that heart-wrenching moment. Uh, >> you're so close to success. You're so close to getting out of there.

[01:04:00]>> But then Kathy Bates has a shotgun.

[01:04:03]>> Yeah.

[01:04:03]>> And everything is just I mean that does mean that we get the climactic ending where it's the mirroring of burning the manuscript and burning the the great misery manuscript as well, which facilitates the fight. And there's a certain degree of like it was always destined to go this way.

[01:04:20]>> Oh yeah.

[01:04:21]>> You know, it was always destined to go this way. It is an interesting perspective on in like the 1990s on parasocial relationships, especially as they've become more and more prominent and more and more something that like we think about as a collective, especially as you know, people on the internet and and whose faces go out to the internet.

[01:04:39]Y'all, we love you, but like not that much.

[01:04:46]But, you know, it's it's interesting how like even without the internet, you can still develop these like sort of >> there was a whole issue with it in the was it the late 90s to early 2000s with um Oh, and I can't remember.

[01:04:58]>> I'm I'm going to be no help.

[01:04:59]>> Someone died. A celebrity died and I can't like an actress died and I can't remember her name. I'm so sorry.

[01:05:06]>> Well, clearly it is it is an issue that we are not new to today.

[01:05:11]>> Yeah. And I think it was kind of ramping up.

[01:05:13]>> Yeah. Yeah. Especially as like the internet gives more access to everybody, to everybody's lives. So, it's it's kind of fun seeing >> on the internet.

[01:05:23]>> Be safe on the internet, y'all. Be safe.

[01:05:26]Please, for the love of God.

[01:05:27]>> Yeah, it is interesting watching it with that mindset.

[01:05:30]>> Cuz that's really all I could think of, too, is like >> she knows everything.

[01:05:33]>> She knows everything. She's seen every piece of media about him. She's quoting his media interviews to him. And that's like off-handed stuff that you just said.

[01:05:44]>> You just Yeah.

[01:05:45]>> You know, and she has every bit of it memorized, noted down. She's using his book quotes from like five books in as things to stay on the stand. I loved I love >> That was a great >> a great moment.

[01:06:03]>> It was such a good moment.

[01:06:07]But the the the little like breadcrumbs too of like, "Oh, that's why I couldn't remember anything on the stand in Denver." And your brain is already turning over like, "Why was she on the stand for Denver? Clearly, she's done this before. Something's weird. It's like it's eating at you. What was it?

[01:06:21]>> What was it?" And then the reveal is so much more horrifying.

[01:06:24]>> Yeah.

[01:06:24]>> Like, >> did we find out? Did she kill her husband? Did we see that?

[01:06:29]>> Um, so there was >> or did he really leave? There was a newspaper article that talked about some insurance banker or something manager Wilks, but I think that was her father.

[01:06:40]>> I think so, too.

[01:06:41]>> So, I don't know.

[01:06:42]>> I think so, too. Which is why she'd be a kid and she'd see the car go over and be like, "That's not how it goes." And that would cause her to like kind of snap.

[01:06:52]>> Yeah.

[01:06:53]>> If that was her father.

[01:06:54]>> Oh, you mean like that that left lasting scars on her?

[01:06:58]>> I mean, sort of. Not that that's why she became who she is, but like that moment when she's talking about the uh the cereals, >> right?

[01:07:08]>> And there's the one and they Uh-huh. and he goes off the cliff >> and the next week he just jumps out of the car and she was like And that's not how it goes.

[01:07:18]>> That's not how it works.

[01:07:19]>> I hadn't even thought about that parallel. That's a really interesting pull because you're right. Like if she'd seen her dad die in a car crash, she'd be like, "No, >> he goes off a ledge.

[01:07:29]>> There's got to be there's got to be some sort of like save that gets him out of there."

[01:07:35]>> Oh, wow. I didn't even put that together.

[01:07:39]That's clever. I'm just so curious about like the psyche behind her character because Kathy Bates, I got to read it.

[01:07:45]And the writing as well does a really really good job of setting up just enough questions that she feels interesting and you feel like you can project some on what her psyche is, but you don't get answers. Cuz I was talking about how, you know, she goes off on him when he asks for the new paper about like, "Oh, I feed you, I clothe you, I do all." And that feels very much like someone who has heard that from a caretaker themselves, right? Like that to me in my basic understanding of psychology feels like it comes from a point of like your mom or your dad were just as awful to you when you made basic requests.

[01:08:20]>> And so now you're like projecting that onto James Khan because you see him as your baby, the object of your of the current object of her affection like you said um during the reaction.

[01:08:32]>> Could also be and I'm I might be reaching here if I read I might I might get more information on it. It could also be she's a a nurse, right? She ran the pediatric unit. Like she helps all of these babies be born and then they all leave.

[01:08:46]>> Good point.

[01:08:47]>> And she does she does everything. She makes sure that mom and baby are taken care of, they're fed, they're bathed, they're everything, and then they leave.

[01:08:58]>> Interesting. And so it becomes like a Oh.

[01:09:02]>> And maybe that's why she starts killing babies.

[01:09:04]>> I I was going to say it becomes like that. Oh, I this baby. I'm so I If I can't have the baby, then no one can.

[01:09:10]>> Mhm. It can't leave. Even though she's done everything for it, it's not Why would it leave her? I'm sure you could do pages on pages on pages of psychological study of Annie Wilks and her like you got the parasocial relationship, you've got why is she killing the kids, you've got potentially abusive parents and and this weird sort of caretakery thing, but also when the the like girllike innocence in her face whenever she hits him with, "Did I do good?"

[01:09:38]>> Yeah. Oh my god.

[01:09:39]>> Oh god. It's like equal parts creepy and also so innocent because you're like you in this moment are the child that you're trying to protect. And Kathy Bates finds all of that in the subtlety of her facial expression and in the subtlety of her performance. And you just feel it.

[01:09:55]You can feel it coming at you. Like you feel like you're in James Khan's place.

[01:09:59]>> Oh, there was that moment where I was like, I'm I I don't know why, but I'm rooting for her.

[01:10:02]>> Yeah.

[01:10:03]>> Like I mean like Yeah. go like definitely go on in that but like I fully agree is there's points where she's just so sweet and >> yeah you just you kind of you you kind of want to root for her but maybe that's just Stockholm syndrome >> which I learned recently is by and large debunked.

[01:10:23]>> Yeah, Stockholm syndrome doesn't exist, y'all. It's been a debunked theory, but I was thinking the same thing at the time because she's so sweet and caring.

[01:10:32]And like the moment outside just before uh the sheriff rolls up where she's like walking in, she's like, "Hi, honey." And like waving, she's got the pig with her >> and you're like, "You're insane." But also, >> and then she gets the blues when she's when it's raining. You got the bipolar thing on top of that. Like there is so much depth to her psychological analysis. And I don't know if it's just the writing or if it's how Kathy Bates played it or it's like a combination of all of them, but clearly everybody understood who this character was. Yep.

[01:11:05]Because it was so perfectly portrayed on the screen.

[01:11:07]>> It's so good. I'm going to go to a bookstore after this and I'm going to go and get the >> You're going to go get misery.

[01:11:11]>> I'm going to go get it. I'm going to get it and I'm just going to sit and read this book.

[01:11:18]>> Got to read the source material. See how closely of an adaption it is.

[01:11:22]>> Oh yeah. I'm so excited. I've actually I don't read scary books, but I I do like SK uh Stephen King's novels. I do I do like those. I read Joy was it Joy Ride like a year ago and that was so good.

[01:11:36]>> So good.

[01:11:36]>> I've only ever seen the film adaptions.

[01:11:38]I've seen it much to my chagrin. I've seen uh >> his short story. Was it uh Strawberry Spring? It's also very good.

[01:11:46]>> See, I got to read more. I got to read more of his stuff. But I mean, the film adaptions just keep being like absolute bangers. I mean, you've got The Shining.

[01:11:52]You've got both iterations of it are very very good in their own right.

[01:11:56]Carrie uh obviously you have this Misery which is an Oscar award-winning film.

[01:12:01]Like there's so many like not only does Stephen King manage to >> It's about time for a new Kujo movie >> probably.

[01:12:09]>> Looking at you studios.

[01:12:10]>> Did they just redo like Pet Cemetery not that long ago?

[01:12:13]>> They did just redo Pet Cemetery not too long ago. We'll see if that ends up on our list. That one I see my thing is like I don't know if this is necessarily like a scary book. It's a thriller book and so I handle that better. Pet Cemetery is definitely a scary one >> I think for sure >> probably.

[01:12:29]>> So that it's two two brands of scary I guess. You know thriller is heartp pounding and like oh my god what's going to happen next on the next page. Horror is like I don't really want to turn the next page because like I'm I'm worried that I'm going to get jump scared by words.

[01:12:42]>> And I I love a Stephen King thriller.

[01:12:44]>> They they do get scary at the end though.

[01:12:46]>> Yeah. Yeah. This one, this one was surprisingly tame compared to other Stephen King cuz I mean you could >> It's a lot more psychological.

[01:12:57]>> Yeah, it's a lot more psychological.

[01:12:59]Like The Shining is a very psychological movie right up until it starts being like really really horrory and that fits the Stephen King architecture.

[01:13:08]>> Well, and that kind of takes place like right up the hill.

[01:13:11]>> Yeah. It's all Colorado.

[01:13:12]>> It's all right there. Mountains Colorado.

[01:13:14]>> Colorado.

[01:13:16]>> He clearly likes Colorado.

[01:13:18]Colorado's great.

[01:13:19]>> Here's the thing. It's really easy to make scary stuff out of uh wide open spaces. Talking about Alaska, right? Um it's it's very much the last frontier.

[01:13:28]And uh we may not have as many like murder crimes as everybody else, like New York, LA, things like that. But we got a whole lot of missing persons >> and that's spookier.

[01:13:39]>> It's spooky.

[01:13:40]>> It's spooky.

[01:13:41]>> Missing are spooky.

[01:13:42]>> Yeah. Colorado wide open spaces getting snowed in. Like there's there's a lot out there that can still be left to like the imagination and chance. So >> this was good. This was fun.

[01:13:52]>> It was good.

[01:13:53]>> Oh my god, >> it was good. Rob Reiner, >> you done it.

[01:13:58]>> May you rest in peace, Rob Reiner. You have created a >> knowing your legacy lives on >> for us to watch >> damn straight >> on the internet.

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