Comments on: Episode 181: The Deadly Hour

By: Smuggins

Smuggins — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 02:01:39 +0000

At first, I thought it might just be bad writing, like the author didn’t know what the story was doing or where it was going. But on the CBS RMT website, that author is listed as Elspeth Eric, who wrote hundreds of episodes. It seems unlikely that this is a bad writing job, but there are so many conflicting details.

For example, if it isn’t literal, then how does writing to the hospital work? But if it is literal, how does the young man just come out of the hospital, and come home with him? If the therapist thought it as real, then they would be reporting him to the police for the crime he committed or working to have him committed to an institution as a danger to others.

I think this story is about sexuality and love, and coming to terms with being gay. There are many aspects of the story that support the idea, but I want to draw attention to how much detail is given to the Tall Hansom Man (who is undoubtedly hetero sexual), compared to how little description is given to his wife!

Overall, this episode gave my partner and I alot of interesting discussion. Great episode.

By: Smuggins

Smuggins — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 01:42:20 +0000

In reply to Christopher. Interesting, but it would be such an amazing coincidence, I feel there would be more clues tying his former wife to the town near the cave.

By: Doug Shaw

Doug Shaw — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 13:29:01 +0000

Wow – I’ve never been so out of step with J, T, and E!
This was one of my absolute favorite shows I’ve heard on this Podcast. I put it on while finishing stuff up at work, and wound up getting home late because I was totally hooked by the story. I listened to it 100% at face value, and didn’t buy in to the layers that my JTE pals were putting onto it. (Although the twist that Christopher suggests – wow – maybe)

It was absorbing and anything that was called a plot-hole or clue that this was an unreliable narrator I interpreted as “Not everybody behaves and thinks the same way that people do in all the other 180 episodes of the MORLS podcast.” That is what fascinated me. People behaved in unexpected ways that were, to me, perfectly plausible.

I liked that we had a story that was going a lot like the one about the guy with the swimming pool, and then it just took this turn and was about Jerome’s isolation, and then when the couple was in the cave, it took another turn. And Jerome’s behavior was explained by all we had seen him experience until then. And the end, where he takes the young man in was totally creepy, and Jerome was concerned but not repentant…

This was a wonderful character study of a character who I think was a reliable narrator, but a twisted individual. We got to go into the mind of someone who really really wasn’t quite right, and see things through that lens. Which was hard to deal with – but I think it is a cop out to say after that horror -“Oh, he was unreliable… that horrific shit we just witnessed didn’t happen, so we be coo.”

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 02:21:44 +0000

As you note, there are many layers to this story but I am particularly interested in the dynamic between the couple as their situation becomes increase desperate. I would love to hear Joshua compare this with the “Elementals” episode of Escape.

By: Clare

Clare — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 17:13:46 +0000

Now you guys have two perfect phrases for t-shirts! “Who Cares about Science? It’s Linda!” and now, “Eat the Butt.”

By: Cindy Caldwell

Cindy Caldwell — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 21:50:25 +0000

In reply to Christopher. Oooh....I have listened to this episode several times and I've never thought about that aspect.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 17:39:42 +0000

Did you consider that the young man in the cave was actually Mr. Jerome’s son? After all, Helen was pregnant. If Mr. Jerome had a son and spent 25 years in silence, then the words “I am here” take on a whole new meaning. It would also explain the young man’s willingness to leave the hospital and go home with Mr. Jerome. Also could explain Mr. Jerome’s concern over the young man not speaking for the last six months.