One benefit to the growth of compelling podcast content is our introduction, as listeners, to terrific podcast hosts. Witness podcast co-hosts Áine Cain and Kevin Greenlee, who wrote, produced, and co-hosted the excellent yet disturbing podcast, The Murder Sheet. After a season detailing the grisly, unsolved murders of Burger Chef employees near Indianapolis in the 1970s and the hunt for a serial killer after a murder at a White Castle, the duo has taken a well-deserved hiatus from true crime and introduced Mystery to Me.
Mystery to Me is a brand-new podcast hosted by Áine Cain and Kevin Greenlee. As self-described fans of all things' mystery, Cain and Greenlee show off their ability to spotlight the silly and rag on the ridiculous.
Mystery to Me features Cain and Greenlee riffing on murder mysteries, film noir, cozy detective stories, police procedurals, psychological thrillers, legal dramas, tales of teen sleuths, and more.
Áine Cain, a senior retail reporter for Business Insider, covers major national retailers and tackles multi-level marketing schemes, COVID-19 outbreaks on cruise ships, and retail-related crimes.
Kevin Greenlee is an attorney from Indianapolis whose day job involves intellectual property cases. He began extensively researching the Burger Chef case in 2016 and represented the family of one of the Burger Chef victims, Ruth Shelton.
So far, they've released six episodes, beginning with the 1936 detective film Satan Met A Lady. The film, a weak ripoff of The Maltese Falcon film made five years later, was excoriated by critics and, in the scathing and snarky hands of Cain and Greenlee, is exposed for its tawdriness. The movie was so bad that the star Betty Davis was suspended by studio chief Jack Warner because she refused to continue on the film.
In the episode on the 1942 film Sherlock Holmes And The Secret Weapon, Cain and Greenlee expose the filmmakers' silliness, who decided to fast-forward the Sherlock Holmes character 40 years into the future so that they could captivate audiences with a timely war film.
Unlike Mystery Science Theater 3000, where the characters riff during the film, Cain and Greenlee dissect the film without subjecting listeners to these
films' entire inanity. But their claws are sharp, and their barbs right on target.
On their most recent – and in my estimation, their best – episode, the duo takes on the 1939 film Nancy Drew…Reporter.
In the comical and incisive insights of the hosts, we discover that this mystery film's biggest mystery is how it actually got made.
In the podcast, Cain and Greenlee successfully make the transition from true crime to the truly absurd.
In the podcast, recommendations are encouraged about future films to "review."
Listeners can send recommendations on what to watch to mail to: mysterytomepodcast@gmail.com
You can listen to Mystery To Me here.
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