DINNER PARTNERS with Christopher & Eric

At almost 350 episodes, Christopher and Eric often suffer from a case of “Have we done this one before?” But this serving of a haunting New York disappearance includes new details and confirms their old suspicions about this strange and disturbing case. HOMICIDE NEW YORK – not to be confused with NEW YORK HOMICIDE, authors of our previous episode — is one of the best new true crime series to come...

Summer In The City Month continues with this devastating, emotional and ultimately inspiring tale of an urban community rising up against the hate in its midst. If someone doesn’t make this story into a movie, Christopher and Eric just might. Jackson Heights, Queens. 1990. The AIDS epidemic is at its peak and gay men are being targeted for violent attacks throughout the country. But we’re supposed...

Christopher and Eric are kicking off a month of True Crime TV Club set in Manhattan and the outer boroughs. They’re calling it Summer In The City Month because only a killer would enjoy New York in July. And it’s still Pride Season which is why they’re starting off with this tale of cold hearted predators stalking gay men in the city. In the second episode of the ninth season of venerable true cri...

Christopher and Eric wrap up their special month of Pride Pairings by serving up a boisterous biopic of the great Oscar Wilde that didn’t age quite as well as they’d hoped. In WILDE, Stephen Fry’s excellent performance as the title subject is hypnotic, and Jude Law scorches a hole in the screen as his manipulative young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. But does this sprawling film truly capture the mag...

As Christopher and Eric continue their month of special Pride Pairings, they launch their two-episode exploration of literary great Oscar Wilde with a True Crime TV Club installment they assumed would be focused on the young lover many blame for Wilde’s personal destruction or at the very least the young man’s father. Turns out this documentary assigned that role to someone entirely unexpected. Wh...

We have a new rule here at Dinner Partners. Every Pride celebration should involve a stunning performance by Coleman Domingo. As Christopher and Eric continue their special Pride Pairings, they explore how Netflix biopic RUSTIN compares to the facts of the iconic civil rights leader Bayard Rustin’s life as revealed in last week’s documentary. Your hosts are largely impressed by this sweeping, sump...

Christopher and Eric kick off their Pride Month celebration with a series of special Pride Pairings in which documentarians and dramatists alike illuminate the personal lives of two of gay culture’s most towering figures. In this episode, we begin a two-part exploration of one of the civil rights movement’s greatest – and previously unsung — heroes, Bayard Rustin, whose indefatigable nature and aw...

In this episode, Eric’s wit, wisdom and incisive commentary on life take center stage. More so than usual. Why? Because those are the things you told us you wanted to hear more of. (That and Christopher messing up his own notes during installments of True Crime TV Club.) We hope all of you aren’t living entirely according to the life lessons Eric serves up in between commenting on gruesome murders...

You can’t have Homecoming Month on a true crime-centric podcast if you don’t include an episode of true crime television that actually has the word homecoming in the title. Homecoming queen, no less. Such is the case with the thirty-fifth episode of the twenty-fourth season of the always in a class by itself DATELINE entitled “The Hometown Hero and the Homecoming Queen.” If the match sounds too go...

Christopher and Eric have identified many recurrent and grievous sins when it comes to the world of true crime television, but the first episode of season 22 of CRUISE SHIP KILLERS entitled “Nadia,” might have birthed an entirely new but nevertheless jaw dropping transgression. You’ll have to listen to find out what it is. But we’ll warn you. If this tale of murder and betrayal during a floating h...

Homecoming Month begins with a Dinner Partners style house tour. You’ve been asking for the final chapter of Eric’s home renovation saga, and it’s high time we blew the drywall dust of ourselves and delivered it to you. And this raised a very important question. Our beloved premier party person Anne Rice passed away before Eric started his journey into headaches and hot water heaters. Would she ha...

Sometimes the rankest easter eggs during Easter Eggs Month are the ones buried in the basement. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. To close out this month devoted to all the things that didn’t survive the growing season, Christopher and Eric serve up both installments of the recent HBO Max documentary MURDER IN GLITTERBALL CITY. Some of the subjects feel uncomfortably familiar. (Did we date any of thes...

Christopher and Eric are the proud inventors of the term “recincrapments” – actually, we think it was Eric, but Christopher likes to steal half the credit — and they feel justified in bestowing this dubious honor on the absolutely hideous re-enactments smeared all over this week’s serving. If there was ever an episode of television for which the term “reincraptacular” was invented, it’s THE PERFEC...

Easter Eggs Month continues with a depraved and disturbing crime that unfolded in the dead of Easter Sunday night on an isolated Nebraska farm, shattering a respected local family in the process. In typical DATELINE style, Christopher and Eric are taken down winding, labyrinthine roads peopled by vicious late night intruders, devastated families and dubious confessions obtained under duress. They’...

Welcome to Easter Eggs Month, where the only thing that’s risen is the scent of death and deception. Christopher and Eric begin their dark celebration of the growing season with this tale of Spring Break gone to hell. While they’re pleasantly surprised by the production quality of the luridly entitled MURDER IN THE HEARTLAND, the arresting and emotional tale served up by the fourth episode of the...

When money isn't a motive, a dirty prosecutor will use sex shaming and sexual discrimination to make up for a lack of evidence or investigation. How's that for carrying the theme of the month all the way through to the end? Dirty Sexy Money Month concludes with a serving of two-part, Peacock true crime special, WHO KILLED ROBERT WONE? If their March birthdays only aged Christopher and Eric by anot...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the hosts of Dinner Partners are total suckers for any true crime special that uses the word "sassy" in the narration more than once. Such is the case with second episode of the second season of SOUTHERN FRIED HOMICIDE, portentously entitled "Romance Is Dead". Dirty Sexy Money Month continues with a toxic blend of all three ingredients. Being the mayor o...

Sometimes the dirtiest money is the kind that only exists in one man's imagination. That's the case in this new installment of Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club. Dirty Sexy Money Month continues, a month long birthday celebration for both of your hosts. True crime TV series VANITY FAIR CONFIDENTIAL is the gift that keeps on giving, and episode 2 of season 5, "The Perfectly Sinister Mr. Rocke...

March is Birthday Month for Christopher and Eric and so we're spending this month of episodes serving up the things they love most — Dirty Sexy Money. Not necessarily in that order, but usually in combination. What better way to kick off a birthday celebration than with a surprise visit from one of their favorite TV hosts of all time? After hearing their salacious True Crime TV Club serving of his...

Bromance Month goes dark again — really dark — with this new look at a hideous, landmark serial killing case, the first of its kind to be covered by national media as body after body was discovered inside a sweltering boat shed baking in the merciless heat of Houston Texas. In THE SERIAL KILLER'S APPRENTICE, psychologist Katherine Ramsland — who also wrote a biography of Christopher's mother — int...

In which Christopher and Eric lose their collective minds and join the delirious, global freakout over the groundbreaking, generation-defining series, HEATED RIVALRY. They had no idea that when one of our Very Important Party People showed up in their VIPP Facebook group --sign up now-- talking about a "puck and **ck" show coming to Canadian television most of the planet would soon be in its firm,...

Bromance Month continues with the second in our two part serving of THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN MORTICIAN MURDER in which last week's cliffhanger ending gives way to a gunslinging treasure hunt, small town style. As Christopher and Eric serve up the final two episodes of the series, the bodies keep dropping and the skeletons keep coming out of the closet. Meanwhile, your hosts have questions ranging from t...

Bromance Month begins in a rugged, mountainous American state about which host Eric Shaw Quinn has some controversial opinions relating to altitude, oxygen uptake and mental health. In part 1 of their the two-part serving of THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN MORTICIAN MURDER, Christopher and Eric deliver episode 1 of the three episode series featuring dueling morticians, missed lunch dates, lesbian moms, abusive...

Let's just say this is the deepest of the deep fried episodes of DATELINE you'll ever find, and Christopher and Eric can think of no more fitting an end to Hot Dateline Month than this grease-poppin', wife-hoppin' installment. (Trigger warning. Given their own illustrious ancestries, your hosts will be using the term "white trash" as much as they damn well feel like, thank you very much ) There ar...

Hot Dateline Month has delivered sultry swaying palms and bleak Montana highways. Now it's time to head to an affluent Midwestern suburb where  — wait for it! — a seemingly idyllic marriage is not all it's cracked up to be. You know it's going to be a doozy when the narration begins by describing the episode as "One of the strangest stories we've ever had on DATELINE." Enter episode 4 of season 29...