Berri's Couch

This is a thought piece on our feelings towards King as a writer. We discuss why we can't get into his books or enjoy them as much as we want and the realisation of all his books just being a giant source material for a D&D campaign. P.S. We know that Pet Cemetery is 3rd person limited but our issues are present in that one most clearly.

Look sometimes a budget can't save a bad concept and sometimes a low budget can break any level of fear you're supposed to feel. We look at some other mini series and Netflix originals that have adapted King's works. Bee loses her mind over the continued existence of the langoliers and forced to gaze upon the vampires from Sleepwalkers.

Clowns, trauma and the world's lamest bullies. To celebrate 100 episodes of doing this we look at the miniseries and movie forms of IT. What we liked about each and what we felt was lacking, beware talk of clowns and nostalgia not being as good as you remember.

TW - Talks of suicide and child death. We unearth the piece of work that even the author wishes didn't make it to publication and we are going to rebury it. The ground may be sour but Bee is salty, both film adaptations of the book get to be looked at and compared.

Toxic fan's in one corner, creators in another let's get ready to rumble!!!!! We begin a look into the so called master of horror's creative works by starting with what is probably the easiest entry point. A story about toxic fandom and the dangers of parasocial relationships.

Rambling about bits of music that please out ears is what this is about. We cover a range from magical etherealness to mind bending anxiety pieces. Come for something light to end the month before we dive into horror next time.

We move on from the father of film composition to the mother of Casio keyboards. Yes we are serious and that is a threat, we also talk about the unique sound that helped create the atmosphere of Joker and Chernobyl and the woman responsible for it.

While often a thankless job we highlight 2 of the most iconic composers in film composition. The father of film scoring and the man that made the most iconic spaghetti western sound in the known pop universe.

Composers are some of the most often overlooked parts of media. So we are looking at TV show composers and enjoying the hard work they put into their works. Bee doesn't actually know technical terms so enjoy her very clear poor attempts at remembering the terms and making it up when she doesn't know. Link to composer discussing Arcane compositions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eezS5KCsDCE&t=235...

Dust off those pipes and prepare the lower registers we're talking about villain songs. What makes a real villain song, why we use the minor key to signify villains and how to quickly identify the traditionally key components that mark a villain song.

Look this is hard to do. Villains that are an allegory for something bigger/a topic the author wishes to discuss are not easy to do and real easy to fuck up.

*TW* Talks of child abuse, child soldiers, war and murder/torture This is a very long breakdown of 2 moments where deeper reading beyond the propaganda of the main protagonist that we found where either the villains are nought but victims of the heroes and the society that they hold up as the "true way. Or the person once viewed as the heroic mentor is nothing but a power abusing narcist who wants...

Look we as individuals and society love villains why is that? Well we will attempt to discuss why we personally think a villain can be loved, loathed and can carry a piece of media on their own.

These two concepts are not mutually exclusive and we will break this down and with various examples of how one character can be a villain but not antagonistic to the protagonist, the villain who is the antagonist and the antagonist who isn't a villain. Multiple tangents and uses of Avatar the Last Airbender and Harry Potter as examples for all conceptual breakdowns.

Look I have one good joke and I'm gonna tell it constantly. We now take a look at some of the other works Christopher Lee has been in. His voice acting, bit parts and even his music career will wrap up a month overlooking this incredible man's career and reminding ourselves that the world isn't so bad as he has yet to return in our darkest hour.

We got to the iconic role that defined the man's career going forward and cemented him in the pop culture zeitgeist. Look we couldn't talk about Christopher Lee and not bring this performance up, now come with us and ponder the orb that is this role and if there is more to it then a major blockbuster movie and an iconic voice.

Today we discuss the growing flavour of Christopher Lee's acting career as we discuss the cult leader flavoured variety in 1973's The Wicker man. We try to stay on the path but much like Sergeant Howie we kinda get nowhere and go around a lot of places with the overall perception being that Christopher Lee is mayhaps in control the entire time.

Why is everyone so smooth? The least important question this movie raises but overall worth answering. This movie is psychic damage given form but still necessary to visit as we catalogue the career of this fantastic and memorable man. *splatters description in bright red obviously fake blood*

This is the hot springs/beach episode, emotional break throughs from preceding episodes are unnecessary and will anything discussed here may have impact in the future? Probably not. Look we're discussing what we want from a genre so this is more light hearted then anything else. It's filler and we know it, and we're justifying it with it being a deliberate play to genre expectations.

A genre based on girls changing outfits at the speed of light and fighting monsters is important in ways that we cannot stress enough. We get a bit personal in this and even address some bad faith criticisms that are levied at the genre.

If we don't talk about magical girls after saying we are are we subverting the podcast or you? HA! It doesn't matter because we are actually talking about 2 magical girl shows, one that has been deemed the "subversive" magical girl show and one that does not get talked about enough but is certainly the more numerically subversive take. At least in our opinion, so listen in and if you think we're w...

At the foundational level these are the same product and yet there is such a difference in how these are presented and accepted by various communities. Why do the muscled up men in skin tight spandex not be adopted by the gay community yet the girls in fluffy skirts with cute animal companions are almost universally embraced with willingness? Yes we all know target demographics but it does go slig...

Trust on this, the hyper-feminine, butt kicking teams of all girls are inherently gay. In that the genre rings true to a large portion of the queer community and can oft ring truer to experiences then most media. Time to tastefully change our outfits via silhouettes and flashing lights for us to figure this out.

Why did they even try? In effort to be like these adaptations we are kinda phoning this in and just having minor breakdowns at the various times works we enjoyed got thrown into the studio paper shredder and then pieced together in "adaptations". Along with discretion we go off about adaptational changes that just grind our gears because we aren't going to make you listen to us just say "This suck...

Finally the contentious category of direct adaptations. Does adding a character for flow of the new medium still make it direct? Is a completely direct adaptation even possible? Will Bee one day reign in her tangents about superheroes? Maybe to all.