Liam Crowley

Good Lord.

Every time I'm on this podcast, whether it was with Matt and Liam.

It's only getting worse.

It's only getting worse.

It's only getting worse.

And shout out Liam Crowley.

I got to meet him at New York Comic Con.

Just as big and awesome and cool as you'd expect from him.

You're in my head.

So it turns out in an interview with Screen Rant's Liam Crowley for Carrie, Matthew Lillard, who joined the franchise.

I'm a big Lillard head, so this is actually pretty

big for me.

They are essentially throwing a massive unending rave while the peasants outside bleed from their pores.

And the critical detail confirmed by Crowley and Williams in the Screen Rant piece is that A24 is not doing a modern update.

Oh, really?

Yeah, the film stays entirely true to the ambiguous medieval timeline of Poe's original text.

Right.

We've established the existential dread, the grueling medieval isolation, the horrifying plague mechanics.

Now let's look at the exact words Mikey Madison used to describe the tone of this film to Liam Crowley.

This is the wildest part of the whole article.

Netflix is trying to solve a massive puzzle right now, and welcome to the Deep Dive, by the way.

Today, we're looking at an exclusive Screen Rant report by Grant Hermans and Liam Crowley.

Right, and it's a fascinating one for you listening today.

If you track the history of American fiction or even just the evolution of television, this is huge.