cosmicgumby t1_iydmpht wrote on November 30, 2022 at 4:55 PM

I listened to the podcast about this and am watching the show. Really different vibes. The show makes Steve way more sympathetic - hard to know what he was really like, but the direction he goes down is bananas. I did however feel the inclusion of the murder-suicide was irresponsible because it left out A LOT of backstory there. Like, all of it.

Daisy_LaRue OP t1_iydt8ew wrote on November 30, 2022 at 5:36 PM

I just started the podcast too — it's called Welcome to Your Fantasy and it's excellent. Doesn't steer away from the dark stuff but manages to be campy and funny at the same time. I checked to see if it has anything to do with the show — like, did the podcaster get paid? — and it doesn't seem like it. The show seems to borrow a lot of real-life characters from it and just give them fake names and slightly different backstories, especially Otis and the Juliette Lewis character.