Queue up the subtitles because we're tackling our very first foreign language film in Overlapping Dialogue's (admittedly short) history! This month's Spooktober Spooktacular takes an unexpected detour with an episode dedicated to Michael Haneke's psychological horror thriller Funny Games from 1997, a movie that's by no means for the faint of heart. But before arriving to the metatextual mayhem...this week's Blue Plate Special has us diving in headfirst with our takes on both the trailer for (spiritual) friend of the pod Paul Thomas Anderson's forthcoming film Licorice Pizza and the simultaneous theatrical and HBO Max release of The Many Saints of Newark, the highly anticipated prequel to the landmark television drama The Sopranos. Eventually, we get around to punishing ourselves with a discussion on the many ways in which our subject film produces maximum discomfort and where it falls in the pantheon of the gleeful nihilism of the 1990s, all while questioning the narrative and aesthetic impulses exercised by Haneke and company. Where such efforts successful, indulgent, or something in the middle? Spoiler alert: go ahead and place your bets on the final option... Feel free to skip to 2:18:00 for the beginning of our audio commentary. As always, please like, subscribe, rate, and review us on all of our channels, which include Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube! Contact us at huffmanbrothersproductions@gmail.com with your questions, comments, and requests.