Bonus Ep. - Five Nights At Freddy's
Decoding TV
David Chen
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this bonus episode, Patrick Klepek and David Chen discuss the Five Nights at Freddy’s movie currently streaming on Peacock.
What is the appeal of this videogame property? Is it possible to take any of these characters seriously? How did the videogame’s lore interact with the story they were trying to tell? And why is this movie so good for society even if we ultimately don’t like it very much? Listen to hear us discuss all these questions and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone and welcome to decoding TV a podcast about television. I am David Chen and I'm going to sit here |
| 0:08.1 | Sitting completely still for a really long period of time until moving suddenly |
| 0:12.4 | To surprise you joining me today is Patrick Leppick |
| 0:16.2 | Who's extremely tired wife prepping for a trip is currently upstairs while I record this |
| 0:21.6 | Actually putting five nights at Freddy characters on to pumpkin so they can go out so the kids think the scene of him in the morning |
| 0:28.2 | Wow, well |
| 0:29.7 | We all have our own cross the bear anyway. Welcome to a bonus episode of decoding TV |
| 0:34.9 | We are also broadcasting this live right now. I was gonna announce this earlier |
| 0:39.5 | But I'll just say wasn't sure if this broadcast is gonna happen tonight |
| 0:43.1 | But now now that we're here. I'm happy to be talking with Patrick Leppick to talk about the new movie five nights at Freddy's |
| 0:51.1 | based off of the |
| 0:53.1 | classic video game now |
| 0:55.2 | You can find more episodes of this podcast a podcast dot decoding TV.com email us at decoding TV at gmail.com find us cross out platforms |
| 1:01.9 | YouTube Instagram TikTok et cetera at decoding TV. I want to say |
| 1:07.0 | We are going to start by just giving our overall thoughts on this movie five nights at Freddy's and then |
| 1:11.8 | Dive writing the spoilers pretty quickly after that. So if you're afraid of spoilers, then you know, don't stick around for very long |
| 1:17.8 | The reason I wanted to have this conversation in bonus episode form Patrick Leppick is because |
| 1:25.6 | We you're into video games and also technically this movie is streaming on peacock |
| 1:31.8 | so |
| 1:32.9 | You know why not his moves that David has jumped through to make did to make decoding TV doing this movie work |
| 1:39.8 | I'm with you. I'm with you David |
| 1:41.1 | It's I see a logical a to be line on this one and and we're good to go. Thanks. Thanks, Patrick |
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