Andy Greenwald
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's a specific memory for a lot of people depending on which version of it you respond to.
How do you update it and why do you update it?
And I would say that there is an
awkward collision between between the modern and the classic and it's evidenced by as you said
The son isn't just moody.
He's losing himself in online gaming.
The dad isn't just walled off and keeping secrets.
He's microdosing.
The daughter isn't just harassed by Max Cady.
She's harassed by a rapacious true crime podcaster.
And I think, honestly, most egregious of all, in order to understand where we are in the contemporary world,
political moment, a cultural moment, everyone talks about how bad the system is.
A lot of talk about the unfairness of the system.
Amanda Marcellus.
It's an impressive lineup.
Well, it's...
One of the things that we love about Widow's Bay is that from the very beginning, in the first 15 minutes, Mayor Tom Loftus communicates to the guy from the New York Times that there are no cell phones on the island.
And he just said it.
And then it's done.
And then all the problems of modern suspenseful storytelling are just vanished.