The script for Episode 8 of The Misery Loves Company can be found here
So this was a big one. I love this episode. It was a pain in the ass forever to work on. Clyde’s “accident” took me longer than basically anything else in the show so far. The action feels clean (to me), and the sound all episode long is sharp. I like Hexil a lot, and I hope we learn more about it.
I realize around this time in the season that there’s a lot of questions being asked but very few answers given (so far). This isn’t a mystery box show, where there’s some cosmic turtle spinning away, but just a narrative that might take some time to unwind.
Starting from the beginning of their story was never really something I considered, I found them far more compelling to talk about starting from after the worst day of their lives has already happened. Which, coincidentally, will be seen in Episode 9.
Clyde doesn’t speak much. He’s a quieter guy, but at the end of the day he’s just as messed up as anyone else. He just doesn’t talk about it as often as some of the others. I think he has some intense stuff going on inside him. We’ll learn more about this later.
This episode we got to hear more from Sarah Shepard and Rebecca Booth, two people I’m sure we’ll get more of as time goes on. They’re too good to keep wasting on these side characters. We also meet a power couple late in the episode played by Breanne Hollis and Ian Lawrence. Some people I’ve spoken to really hate this part, but it amused me more than anything else. I get that maybe it’s a little tonally inconsistent with the end of the episode, I accept this cognitively, but there are some bits too good to go. I will die on this hill. I stan the trauma bonding power couple. And to defy you even further, I make a vow to include them in future episodes whenever possible. Because, and I can’t stress this enough, it makes me laugh, and so it is written.
I’m really excited for you to have listened to this little mini-saga of episodes. Starting here is where the comic material runs out. From here on, everything was written specifically for this show, and I think honestly it may be better for it. Except for episode 9. We’ll talk about that next week. Until then.
Credits:
Ahab - Ryan Sheehe
Bernie - Morgan Stewart
Clyde - Derek Huss
Kyrgan - Katie Pappas
Narrator - Jake Roberts
Lizard Man - Rebecca Booth
Goon - Breanne Hollis
Schmuck - Ian Lawrence
Lord Bowtie - Sarah Shepard
Hexil/Various - Morgan Stewart
Music:
All music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
SFX: Various libraries