(Andrea hosts a podcast called “Hit Me Baby With True Crime.”) There’s also a house manager, uncredited, who does a lot of heavy preshow lifting — the party chat equivalent of CrossFit. The flimsiness of character and dialogue shifts the burden — of both narrative and proof — onto the audience, though participation remains voluntary. How much crime and true crime entertainment a given crowd consumes shades the evening. “I’m just trying to give equal time to the accountants of this world.”This interactivity, however idiosyncratic, doesn’t alter the show much. sinister valets and Mabel Normand — that I didn’t realize it was a real incident until embarrassingly late in the evening.

Source: New York Times November 20, 2020 19:52 UTC