Unabomber

Holmes, three.

No. Unabomber, that one, people were making fun of it.

It wasn't even well received.

So like, okay, so this is 2024. yeah uh ultraman rising family affair barely hills cop like nothing here sandy cheeks movie

Crime Writers On is the original true crime review podcast that digs into true crime, pop culture, other podcasts.

And on this episode, how did Ted Kaczynski go from Harvard math prodigy to domestic terrorist? Was a college experiment in psychology to blame? We'll talk about the Netflix film Unabomber.

Joining me to get that done and more is true crime author, TV journalist, and host of These Are Stories podcast, my husband, love of my life.

It's Kevin Flynn.

We need real physical evidence, not just some words on a page.

Linguistics is the key to finding him.

In an effort to find the elusive criminal, the FBI encourages publication of the Unabomber's manifesto.

Agent Joanne Miller thinks the essay contains linguistic clues to his identity and its denouncement of the Industrial Revolution sounds familiar to the brother of Ted Kaczynski.

What lessons you can take away from it.

The other conversation coming up is with the cast of Unabomber.

Mm.

[laughs]

They could hear me no problem 'cause they were answering my questions.

Well, I- [laughs]

And then at one point, we're talking about the Unabomber, at one point they start laughing, so I start laughing.

[laughs]

Every Sunday just after 1.30, one of our regular reviewers checks out the latest on the big screen.

This week, Kate Rodger is looking at Tenzing, The Social Reckoning, the sequel to The Social Network, and Unabomber.

Kia ora, Kate.

Kia ora, and how are you? Kia ora.

That's the

social reckoning.

And lastly on your list, Unabomber.

which has a cast of Jacob Tremblay from Room, people who was a young boy then, Shailene Woodley, Russell Crowe.

The Prince of Tides Part 2? It's tinier.

But I was like, well, okay, Russell Crowe, Jacob Tremblay in a Unabomber movie, that seems intriguing.

And boy, was it not.

It's like...

Like, it's so... baffling that a movie could be this bad that has like a cast like this it is decently filmed like it's not like it's not like it's not like um you know like aggressively you know amateur hour it's just like everything about the script and how it's been edited together just rings false in a in a movie that already and i didn't watch the let the sam worthington miniseries that I believe was quite well regarded.

But I certainly am more interested in checking that.

I mean, I'm not going to check it anytime soon because I'm like, I already have my dose of Unabomber.

Yeah, you really have

However, today we have a special bonus episode where we are going to check out a 2026 Netflix original.

It's a crime drama called Unabomber.

It's directed by Yanis Meets Peterson and stars Russell Crowe, Jacob Tremblay, Annabelle Wallace and Cheyenne Woodley.

I'm Jesse, I'm your host.

and talk a little bit about how it ended up on Netflix and a bit of the story behind this actual film.

We do start our show with the Fast Flicks, which is a quick little summary of what the film is all about.

So this one, it's an interweaving story between the growth of the Unabomber in his early years and the task force tracking him down in his adult years.

There we go, this is based on a real life serial killer, terrorist, terrorist is probably a better word, real life terrorists in the United States that a lot of people have probably heard of and probably pretty familiar with as well.

That's really good.

Um, and then I watched, on Netflix I watched Unabomber.

Yeah.

The new Russell Crowe and Jacob Tremblay telling of that story.

Okay.

And that's-

Well, it's Un- Un- Unabomber.

Unabomb.