Chris Ryan

That Cape Fear was, I think, very wisely released in June as summer hits, as the temperatures go up, as people are looking for a sticky, indulgent, kind of high-end, trashy show to watch.

Mm-hmm.

And not for the Emmy consideration, which just ended, I guess, about a week ago.

I think voting opens this week, I believe, for the Emmys.

Because you would think Amy Adams, Javier Bardem, Patrick Wilson, these people would be like the kind of person you would put forward for an Emmy award.

That being said, I think this show, you can...

And we'll talk about – I watched two, Andy watched one.

We can talk broadly about it.

We don't want to, like, spoil things.

Obviously, it's based on, in some ways, one central story, but it's based on several different sources of material.

So Cape Fear is based on The Executioners, which is a John D. MacDonald novel.

The film starring Robert Mitchum from the 50s, I believe.

50s or early 60s.

Early 60s.

And then it's also based on the 1991 Martin Scorsese adaptation with the screenplay by Wesley Strick, which...

was like a famous kind of not cash grab for Scorsese, but like another one of his, like, I'm going to prove that I am a bankable director as well as like a, um, a world renowned artiste of cinema.

And that was like a $35 million movie that wound up making $180 million.

It was Nick Nolte, Robert De Niro and Jessica Lange and Juliette Lewis in the, in the, in the major roles.

And was a huge hit as we've done it on rewatchables.

It continues to be a rewatchable movie precisely because you are caught in a vice grip of tension and atmosphere.