Episode 20: Popular Culture

In which Eddy, Dixie, and Matthew talk about horror and vampires in popular culture, and forget some obvious examples.

• Eddy goes right into an apology for the sound issues in last week’s episode.
• (Like with our video game episode, we’re only going to list references that are relevant to the discussion.)
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer
• War for the Oaks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_for_the_Oaks
• The X-Files: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files
• The Lone Gunmen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lone_Gunmen_(TV_series)
• “Mythology” vs “monster of the week” episodes and how it inspired roleplaying games
• Forever Knight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forever_Knight
• Dark Shadows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Shadows
• Kindred the Embraced: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindred:_The_Embraced
• The soap opera formula of the 90s
• Twin Peaks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Peaks
• Reading horror as a child
• Point Horror books: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Horror
• Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scary_Stories_to_Tell_in_the_Dark
• Goosebumps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goosebumps
• Fear Street: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_Street
• Coraline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coraline
• It: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_(novel)
• Psychological horror and serial killers
• Sharp Objects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_Objects
• Liane Moriarty (author): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liane_Moriarty
• Silence of the Lambs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silence_of_the_Lambs_(film)
• The Blacklist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blacklist_(TV_series)
• Profiler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profiler_(TV_series)
• American vs British season/series structure
• Jekyll: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jekyll_%28TV_series%29
• Ultraviolet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_(TV_serial)
• Ripper Street: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripper_Street
• Edge of Darkness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_of_Darkness
• Breaking Bad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad
• Games with a built-in ending
• True Blood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Blood
• Southern Vampire Mysteries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Southern_Vampire_Mysteries
• The Walking Dead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walking_Dead_(TV_series)
• Do the problems of the Walking Dead impact Dystopia Rising?
• A Paradise Made In Hell: https://www.amazon.com/Paradise-Built-Hell-Extraordinary-Communities/dp/0143118072
• Drama-driven vs character-driven stories
• How Buffy has aged well
• Underworld series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underworld_(film_series)
• Yes, we talk about the Underworld lawsuit
• What We Do in the Shadows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_We_Do_in_the_Shadows
• Matthew quotes the movie, and we end on that note
• What do you want to hear from the Pathcast?