Details, credits, errata: This week we watched Netflix’s incredible, terrifying show about [SPOILER] and Christian theology, Midnight Mass, which I don’t think I call Black Mass during the episode but if I do, please know that Alissa has already teased me about it and you will only be encouraging her if you do the same. Black Mass isn’t very good, whereas Midnight Mass is. Our guest us the delightful Andy Levy, costar of the only watchable show Fox News ever broadcast, Red Eye (long since canceled, obviously), now ascended to the highest planes of Twitter, where he is very funny.
This is one of our two spooooooooky episodes for Halloween (we’ll have another subscribers-only one up shortly) so if you are upset by scary stuff, we recommend AVOID AVOID AVOID on this one because it is especially frightening if you are a Christian! That is why your hosts enjoyed it and probably also why Andy didn’t think it was as scary as we did (though he did like it), but I can easily imagine finding it absolutely gut-wrenchingly disturbing in a bad way.
Our image is Netflix’s incredibly vintage-y painting for the show, which I love. If you know who painted it, @ me on twitter.
Our theme song is Louis Armstrong and His Hot 5’s Muskrat Ramble, made freely available by the Boston Public Library and audio engineering shop George Blood, LP through the Internet Archive. Midnight Mass is copyright 2021 Netflix. Brief audio excerpts are used herein for purposes of review. All other material is copyright 2021 Sam Thielman and Alissa Wilkinson.
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