Shipwrecked Comedy and American Black Market proudly present: Chapter Four of Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party – “A Descent Into the Maelström”
Sensing a dearth of stupid ideas, Ernest Hemingway moves to split up and explore the house, but is his motive to catch a killer, to woo Annabel, or the third thing in this list of things?
Written and Created by Sean Persaud & Sinéad Persaud
Featuring: Sean Persaud, Sinéad Persaud, Mary Kate Wiles, Sarah Grace Hart, Ashley Clements, Tom DeTrinis, Lauren Lopez, Curt Mega, Joey Richter, Blake Silver, & Clayton Snyder
Directed by: William J. Stribling
This episode’s transmedia prompt is: Secret Passageway. Let your imagination run wild! If you would like to participate, you have until Saturday September 18th at 11:59 pm PDT to get in your entries, and Sunday September 19th each member of Shipwrecked will pick an entry to be featured and reblogged here on Shipwrecked’s official tumblr. Entries of all types are encouraged–fan fic, fan art, crafts, playlists, whatever our prompt inspires you to create! Be sure and tag your entries poe party ftw to be considered.
I thought the first episode did a great job of introducing so many characters with fun nudges and winks at literary tradition and pop culture surrounding great writers and their works. This is not a period drama. This is meta and it plays with popular conceptions and misconceptions of great writers in a really delightful way, playing fast and loose with time periods, conventions, and meta.
The second episode foundered a little bit and I wondered if the slightly longer than normal (for youtube) episodes were going to work. The third episode picked up steam. This (the 4th) episode is great and MKW finally got something she could sink her teeth into. Her set down of Hemingway and Poe. Beautiful.
A Tell Tale Vlog was wonderful because Sean and Sinead are great on camera. It was fresh and engaging. They both have great presence and fantastic comedic timing. ATTV was a very low budget production–the lighting works, but is not what I’d call good. But they made it seem part and parcel instead of it being a detraction. The more things I see Sean do, the more impressed I am by his deadpan wit, unexpected comebacks, and line deliveries. The weird little mumbles. Sinead I could watch all day just dropping vodka shots into wine and doing the world’s most disgusting boiler-makers.
