Show notes
The scariest villains do not need a mask, they just need the keys to the door. We’re closing out the 1990s run by circling back to Rob Reiner’s Misery (1990), the Stephen King adaptation that turns a snowy rescue into a slow, personal war over control. With Kathy Bates’ Oscar winning Annie Wilkes and James Caan’s battered, calculating Paul Sheldon, the movie traps us in one house and somehow makes it feel endless. We talk through first impressions and rewatch revelations, from the silence th...

