Episode notes
Signs & Portents S1E13 (18 May 94) vs. Necessary Evil S2E8 (14 Nov 93)
-The opening of ‘Necessary Evil’ has big film noir or gothic melodrama vibes like Wuthering Heights (1939), Rebecca (1940), The Letter (1940), Casablanca (1942), Jane Eyre (1943), Mildred Pierce (1945), or Secret beyond the Door (1947)
-Bob retells a maybe apocryphal story of confusion on the set of the film noir The Big Sleep (1946) between 3 of 20th century US’s great artists: Howard Hawks, William Faulkner, & Raymond Chandler
-An amazing loose depiction of a drunk Faulkner in Hollywood is the Coen brothers’ film Barton Fink (1991)
-Odo apes some lines from the great detective show Columbo (1971-8, 89-2003)
-The best book on femmes fatales is Mary Ann Doane Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory, Psychoanalysis (1991)