REVIEW: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
WHAT WENT WRONG
Sad Boom Media
4.8 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In this bonus episode Chris and Lizzie share their unfiltered thoughts on Rian Johnson’s ‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’, and discuss the surprising (and potentially mis-marketed) message of the film. Find out which stars stood out in an all-star cast - we’re looking at you Josh O’Connor & Daryl McCormack - and which were completely unnecessary. We also discuss how the impending Warner Bros./Netflix or Paramount merger will change the landscape for movies like this.
This episode DOES CONTAIN SPOILERS! Listen with caution.
*CORRECTIONS: Chris mistakenly asserts that 2019's Captain Marvel underperformed - it did not. He confused it with 2023's The Marvels.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, dear listeners, and welcome back to What Went Wrong, your favorite podcast, full stop, where we solve the mysteries of what went wrong on your favorite movies, as well as some of Hollywood's biggest floppers, and we love them all. |
| 0:23.1 | This is a show all about how it's impossible to make a movie, let alone a good one, almost as |
| 0:27.7 | impossible as it is to stage the perfect crime. |
| 0:31.5 | Today, we're here for a bonus episode discussion of the new Ryan Johnson, Who Done It, Wake Up Dead Man, a Knives Out Mystery. |
| 0:41.8 | Lizzie, the question remains, if I were stabbed in the back in my podcast studio and it was unclear how anyone got inside, could you figure it out? |
| 0:51.3 | No, you would be absolutely out of luck. |
| 0:54.1 | Definitely. But I would attend your funeral. That's would be absolutely out of luck. Definitely. |
| 0:54.8 | But I would attend your funeral. |
| 0:56.5 | That's about the best I can offer. |
| 0:58.1 | And then I'd do an episode about it. |
| 1:00.0 | Would you sing Amazing Grace at my funeral? |
| 1:03.7 | Yes, only because it might make you roll in your grave. |
| 1:06.7 | Yep. |
| 1:07.3 | How you doing today? |
| 1:08.7 | Are you ready to talk religion? |
| 1:12.2 | I'm doing great. |
| 1:13.5 | I am really excited to talk about this today. |
| 1:16.5 | Chris and I actually got the chance to watch this together, which was very exciting because |
| 1:24.1 | David and I are now back in Los Angeles, the gang's back together. |
| 1:28.1 | I don't know how much Chris enjoyed that, but I had a great time at our movie night. Chris, why don't you go first? |
| 1:33.1 | What his face says no. I was uncomfortable with Lizzie's presence, generally speaking. I'm not used to |
| 1:39.2 | having anyone in my house. I'm not closely related to. No, it was an absolute treat to watch this |
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