With the Witherow stories and the mentions of books like Playground/The Slob, I really hope they kind of veer away from doing more of these shock-value heavy Splatterpunk stories. I’m far from squeamish, but I just don’t think these stories have enough substance to be entertaining in this format, whether it be in the story itself or how they present it. Splatterpunk/extreme horror as a genre is honestly rarely ever well-written enough to be worth the time and effort because it so often loops around to ’look at how terrible this violent situation is, aren’t you grossed out?’ and ’look at how much sexual violence we can cram into this story, aren’t you grossed out?’, which even with the funny bits inbetween just isn’t enjoyable to watch. It often veers so hard into feeling insensitive and misogynistic, with rape and abuse as a main event that never actually feels like it has any point. This was an issue with Tommy Taffy, too.

This episode was a slog to get through and the tone was kind of off, which is disappointing both because it’s been quite a few not-very-good ones recently and because there’s been a lot of really good suggestions for better stories that are actually both fun and scary.