Was this 1990s serial killer television drama about the end of the world? Or was it about having empathy for our fellow humans? Chris Carter (X-Files) created it after watching Se7en, but over the course of its three seasons Millennium shifted and changed, until unfortunately it was cancelled.

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• Millennium, The Complete Series
• Back To Frank Black: A Return to Chris Carter’s Millennium

Additional Resources:

• MILLENNIUM'S NIELSEN RATINGS - STATISTICAL CHARTS AND ANALYSIS
• TV'S BEST KEPT SECRET IMPROVES IN ITS SOPHOMORE SEASON
• Staring Into the Heart of Darkness
• CHRIS CARTER INTRODUCES US TO MILLENNIUM
• Back To Frank Black: A Return to Chris Carter’s Millennium. Edited by Adam Chamberlain & Brian A. Dixon. Published by Fourth Horseman Press, 2013.

Michael Shea was a genre writer who combined fantasy, science fiction and horror into a unique blend of wonder and imagination. Together with our guest Robert Lamb (Stuff To Blow Your Mind), we discuss Shea's writing style and legacy.

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• Demiurge: The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales of Michael Shea
• Michael Shea listing on Amazon
• The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories
• Eight Black Offerings
• The Grave Stompers: Six Tales From the Southern Earth
• Karl Edward Wagner listing on Amazon
• Swords and Deviltry (The Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser) (Vol 1)
• The End of the Story: The Collected Fantasies, Vol. 1 (The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith)

Additional Resources:

• www.michaelsheaauthor.com
• The Extra. (2009). Publishers Weekly, 256(49), 35.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee5ckbUQ4jI
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_FSICmPrDU

Based on a hard-boiled novel by Charles Willeford, this sweaty, sultry film has us questioning hedonism and the struggle between order and chaos. Between writer/director George Armitage, a very shirtless Alec Baldwin and killer performances by Jennifer Jason Leigh and Fred Ward... we've got plenty to talk about.

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• Miami Blues (the film)
• Miami Blues (the book)
• Grosse Point Blank
• Spartan
• Cast A Deadly Spell
• Tremors
• The Killing
• Top of the Lake

Additional Resources:

• Interview: George Armitage
• Pinkerton, N. (2015). PRINCE OF PULP. Sight & Sound, 25(7), 98.
• Fisher, M. J. (2000). The Unlikely Father of Miami Crime Fiction. Atlantic, 285(5), 117-121.
• Olson, Kirby. Comedy after Postmodernism: Rereading Comedy from Edward Lear to Charles Willeford . Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 2001
• When Satire Fails
• Miami Blues
• The New Cult Canon: Miami Blues
• Pastel Noir: George Armitage’s MIAMI BLUES
• Miami Blues
• The Overlooked Sunshine Noir ‘Miami Blues’ Finally Hits Blu-Ray